Addressing Gender in SASHA

Investing in sweetpotato has great potential to improve women’s incomes, and the nutrition and health of families as sweetpotato is traditionally a “woman’s crop” in SSA. By explicitly monitoring designs of surveys and our delivery system projects to ensure women’s needs were being sufficiently addr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: International Potato Center
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144232
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Summary:Investing in sweetpotato has great potential to improve women’s incomes, and the nutrition and health of families as sweetpotato is traditionally a “woman’s crop” in SSA. By explicitly monitoring designs of surveys and our delivery system projects to ensure women’s needs were being sufficiently addressed and conducting complementary qualitative research, scientists and practitioners under SASHA have avoided costly errors and become more gender-aware.