Gender & Livestock Modelling Solutions Group
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Exploring Gender Integration in Livestock Economic Modelling
The LD4D Gender & Livestock Modelling Solutions Group places gender integration at the heart of livestock economic modelling.
This collaboration brings together gender specialists and livestock modelling experts to openly discuss challenges, share opportunities, and co-develop practical outputs. The solutions group will develop outputs to support planners, policymakers, and donors who are designing gender-inclusive livestock strategies to build sustainable livestock development projects, policies and investments at both local and national scales.
Why integrate Gender into livestock models?
Livestock economic models have historically not reflected gender dynamics and their impacts. Existing projects or policies may often seem to benefit both men and women at first glance, but in reality, they may fail to deliver equitable benefits, or worse, limit women’s access to productive assets and increase their workload. The group will work to identify challenges and practical solutions to bridge this gap in existing models. Bringing a gender perspective to these models can support the creation of more sustainable livestock investments.
Who is involved?
The Gender & Livestock Solutions Group unites a diverse community of livestock and gender experts shaping livestock strategies and investment. This multidisciplinary collaboration ensures a comprehensive and effective approach to advancing gender-inclusive livestock development.
The group includes researchers and practitioners from a range of organisations involved in livestock modelling and gender including the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Global Center for Gender Equality (GCfGE). The group is supported by the Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) Network with expert facilitation from the DGroups foundation. The Solutions Group is developing a shared language and expectations for what ‘good’ looks like in gender-integrated modelling.
