Authors: Brown,L.; Lambrou,Y.; Birner,R.
Produced by: International Fund for Agricultural Development (2008)

This sourcebook combines descriptive accounts of national and international experience in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on to how to design agriculture-for-development strategies that capitalise effectively on the unique properties of agricultural growth and rural development involving women and men as a high-impact source of poverty reduction.

The Sourcebook adopts the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to provide a conceptual framework for the complexities and synergies of gender equality, livelihoods, food security, and poverty reduction. It provides practical advice, guidelines, principles, descriptions and illustrations of approaches that have worked so far to achieve the goal of effective gender mainstreaming in the agricultural operations of development agencies.It is intended as a guide for practitioners and
technical staff in addressing gender issues and integrating gender-responsive actions in the design and implementation of
agricultural projects and programmes. Topics covered include:

• gender and food security

• gender and agricultural livelihoods: strengthening governance
• gender and rural finance
• gender issues in land policy and administration
• gender and agricultural markets
• gender mainstreaming in agricultural water management
• gender in agricultural innovation and education
• gender issues in agricultural labour
• gender in rural infrastructure for agricultural livelihoods
• gender and natural resource management
• gender and crises: implications for agriculture
• gender in crop agriculture
• gender in fisheries and aquaculture
• gender and livestock
• gender and forestry
• gender issues in monitoring and evaluation

Each chapter includes an overview, thematic notes and innovative activity profiles.

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