Gender report : MicroVeg Project

This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and with financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through Global Affairs Canada (GAC)This gender analysis relates to the larger project “Synergizing fertilizer micro-dosing and indigenous vegetable production to enhance food and economic security of West African farmers (CIFSRF Phase 2).” The aim was to understand gender roles that may influence the adoption of MicroVeg innovations across gender lines. Thus, efforts focused on the MicroVeg farmers training sessions as well as interaction and observations on the farms. Innovations include water management, fertilizer micro-dosing, staking and seed production. On average across the project locations, the distribution of farmers according to gender was almost equal, being 51% male and 49% females