Annotated bibliography of gender-intentional breeding publications

Ashby, Jacqueline A.; Polar, Vivian; Jirón, J.P.

Annotated bibliography of gender-intentional breeding publications

Autores

Ashby, Jacqueline A.

Polar, Vivian

Jirón, J.P.

Editor

International Potato Center

Descripción

The Bibliography synthesizes the challenges, opportunities and next steps highlighted in CGIAR research on the topic of gender-intentional breeding published since 2010, principally by the Gender Team working on genetic innovation, their partners and collaborators and the Team’s predecessors. Gender-intentional breeding is understood as breeding that designs and deploys new crop varieties and animal breeds that are in demand by poor rural women and men to improve gender equality and adoption. This requires breeding that recognizes users’ divergent demands, taking gender differences into account: meeting diverse demands requires analysis of whether different types of users, men and women in particular, have different needs and preferences for new plant varieties or animal breeds that if satisfied, can speed up adoption. Gender-intentional breeding is a subset of client-oriented breeding that sets breeding objectives and priorities based on what users demand or foresee as future demand and that includes but is not limited to purely commercial criteria for the acceptability of new varieties or breeds. The purpose of the Bibliography is to provide a compendium of the Gender Teams’ published work related to the topic of gender-intentional breeding together with a synthesis of the future research needs and opportunities the authors have identified in this body of work. The Bibliography is also intended as a companion resource to the Genetic Innovation Action Area’s Gender Strategy.1 Future research needs to refer specifically to opportunities for social and gender research to facilitate breeding that satisfies economically or socially significant demand from gender-differentiated users. For the purposes of the bibliography, papers included under the rubric of Gender-intentional breeding are defined as papers published by CGIAR scientists that address gender differences with respect to breeding objectives and empirical results of gender research from CGIAR breeding programs from 2010-2024 (October 31). Publication refers principally to peer-reviewed journal publication although a few working papers of strategic nature have been included. What follows is a consolidated summary of the main topics identified as future research needs and opportunities.