Training communicators in gender-responsive storytelling for the media
“The idea is to visualize women’s needs and preferences
to inform how they can have a seat at the table. And
what happens when we don’t do it? By default, when you
imagine a farmer, it’s a man, right?”
In 2023 and 2024, the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform and Econnect Communication trained 45 science communicators on how to tell mainstream media stories about agricultural solutions that work for women.
We also wrote a training guide on telling stories about gender-responsive agricultural solutions that you can download; our storytellers found the story template particularly useful for getting started. You can read their resulting stories below.
We conducted the training online for the participants (with a face-to-face component for our second cohort), who hailed from 15 countries: Kenya, Nigeria, India, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mexico, Tanzania, Pakistan, Indonesia, Zambia, Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh, Egypt and Uganda. You can read more about the training in this article.
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Alie Peter Neil Galeon
Pauline Njathi
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Fodder technology chops backbreaking labor in half for Bangladeshi women
Robert Malala
Nur-A-Mahajabin Khan
How cage fishing technology helps fight HIV in Western Kenya
How pyrethrum farming is changing lives of women in Kenya
Robert Malala
Wakio Mbogho
Improved water management practices empower women in the drylands of India
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Jemima Mandapati-Eliot
Nima Chodon
Irrigation uptake seen closing gender inequalities in Rwanda
Novelty weed control method boosts SSA women cassava farmers
Esther Tumuhairwe
Ochuwa Favour Daramola
Pods to prosperity: Empowering cocoa farmers’ circular business
Porridge Set to Improve Women’s Participation in Fishing in Southern Zambia
Clarissa Rahmanita Idat
Agness Chileya
Seed spreaders help women farmers in Tunisia
Solar Pumps are Empowering Women Farmers in India
Nada Abdelhamid
Tanmoy Bhaduri
Technology shaping pyrethrum revival path for Kenyan women farmers
Transforming Nepali women's farming - one drop at a time
Wakio Mbogho
Shivani Chemjong
Ugandan fish smoking kiln cuts cancer risks
Why cage technology is possible cure for sex-for-fish at beaches of Lake Victoria
Victoria Mbigidde
Robert Malala
Planting seeds for bringing youth into agriculture
Transformative research provides pathways for including gender and socially marginalized groups
Richa Sharma Puri
Nima Chodon
Mali women in conflict zones aim to expand markets for tasty, nutritious millet products
Experts call for massive shift in gender research for sustainable agri-food systems
Jemima Mandapati
Joan Onyango
Empowering women in aquatic food systems: from ‘helpers’ to change agents
Decolonizing agricultural science: Are we ready to embrace change?
Agness Chileya
Shivani Chemjong
Accelerating gender-transformative change in agri-food systems: lessons from the CGIAR–ICAR GENDER Conference 2023
SAPLING research seeks to empower women in central Uganda to fully benefit from the pig industry
Alie Peter Galeon
Tsehay Gashaw
Gender-based participation spurs pilot biochar industry in eastern India
TV story: Fish cage technology in Western Kenya brings women into the fishing space
Sakshi Gaur
Robert Malala
A Tool to Measuring Social Norms Change: Social Analysis and Action in USAID Afia WASH in Sudan
The Locally-led Adaptation in Addressing Water Scarcity in Zambia
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Gender equality begins at home
Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts
Shivani Chemjong
Tanka Dhakal
Harvesting hope improving livelihoods through urban farming
Women Champion Change: Rice-Fallow Cultivation in Odisha
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Jemima Mandapati
Enhancing Millet Enterprises through South-South Collaboration
Supporting Smallholder Women Farmers With Hand Tractors
Jemima Mandapati
Tanka Dhakal
Climate-Smart Irrigation: Driving Economic Gains for Women and Water Conservation
Cassava seed business changes women farmers lives tanzania
Kanwal Waqar
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