AgSpirations by AWARD Cue Podcasts
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AgSpirations by AWARD is a regular podcast series that features immersive conversations with leading global agricultural research and development experts on shaping and advancing inclusive, agricultural-driven development in Africa.
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How can Africa’s private sector optimally contribute to inclusive agricultural research and development?
Can Africa guarantee its own inclusive agricultural research and development? What are the specifics of getting private sector to optimally contribute to this mission?
In this podcast we are joined by Ms Amandla Ooko-Ombaka, an Associate Partner at McKinsey, to discuss the role of private sector and how we can get private sector engagement right.
To find out more about the work Amandla is doing, please visit: www.mckinsey.com
Please subscribe to AgSpirations by AWARD to follow the conversations. You can find all episodes at https://awardfellowships.org/podcast
Hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya, AWARD works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for Africa by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation.
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The Agricultural Innovation-Inclusive Development Nexus and the role of Policies
Today we are joined by Dr. Steven Were Omamo to discuss the agricultural development, inclusive development nexus, and the role of policies.
Before returning to New Growth International at the end of 2021, Were spent most of the last four years as the Representative and Country Director for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia. Before this, he was WFP’s Deputy Director of Policy and Programme and Representative to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa.
To find out more about the work Were is doing, visit: www.newgrowthint.com
Please subscribe to AgSpirations by AWARD to follow the conversations. You can find all episodes at https://awardfellowships.org/podcast
Hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya, AWARD works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for Africa by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation.
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Gender Equality and Inclusive Agricultural Systems: A conversation with Professor Bina Agarwal
Today, Professor Bina Agarwal, a renowned, award-winning author and professor of Development Economics and Development, joins us to deconstruct the nexus of gender equality and inclusive agricultural systems. She will address these questions and more, as we illuminate the progress toward gender equality and development in the month of March.
Books by Bina Agarwal (The books are available of Professor Bina’s website here)
“Gender Challenges” A three volume compendium of selected papers (Oxford University Press, India: 2016)Gender and Green Governance (Oxford University Press, Oxford.)Psychology, Rationality and Economic Behaviour: Challenging STandard Assumtions (Palgrave: London, 2005)Capabilities, Freedom and Equality: Amartya Sen’s Work From a Gender Persective (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006).A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1994. CUP South Asian edition, 1995. Reprinted 1996, 1998).Cold Hearts and Barren Slopes: The Woodfuel Crisis in the Third World (London: Zed Books; Delhi: Allied Publishers; Maryland: Riverdale Publishers, 1986. Repr 1988).Mechanisation in Indian Agriculture (Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1983; reprinted 1986).Structures of Patriarchy: State, Community and Household in Modernising Asia (London: Zed Books; Delhi: Kali for Women, 1988; reprinted in paperback 1990).Women and Work in the World Economy (London: Macmillan Press, 1991)Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia: Contradictory Pressures, Uneasy Resolutions (London: Macmillan Press, 1989)
Writings by Bina Agarwal
Blurred lines_on sexual harrassment : 2015
Budget silences : 2015
Our Turings and Hawkings : 2015
Whose law is it anyway_Section 377 : 2013
Transforming quietly_land reform in Brazil : 2012
Think Outside the Box : 2009
In the Swiss Alps: From Heidi to Holmes : 2008
Women & Property : 2007
Women’s Inheritance: Next Steps : 2005
Landmark Step to Gender Equality : 2005
Home and the World: Revisiting violence : 2003
Are We Not Peasants Too? 2002 Comments
Is Bharatpur for Birds Only? 1986
Please subscribe to AgSpirations by AWARD to follow the conversations. You can find all episodes at https://awardfellowships.org/
Hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya, AWARD works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for Africa by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation.
To find out more about AWARD, go to https://awardfellowships.org/podcast -
Scaling institutional policies to drive countrywide gender-responsive agriculture
This episode features a conversation with Dr Mandefro Nigussie to discuss how we can scale institutional policies to drive countrywide gender-responsive agriculture. Dr Mandefro Nigussie is an agricultural researcher and the State Minister for Agricultural Development at the Ministry of Agriculture in Ethiopia. Until 2020, he was the Director General at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). Dr Nigussie has a PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding with over two decades of experience in policy, research, and development across Africa.
Please subscribe to AgSpirations by AWARD to follow the conversations. You can find all episodes at https://awardfellowships.org/podcast
Hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya, AWARD works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for Africa by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation.
To find out more about AWARD, go to https://awardfellowships.org/ -
Inclusive leadership to drive Africa’s development: A reality or a fallacy?
This episode features a conversation with her excellency professor Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, a distinguished, award-winning biodiversity scientist and the sixth president of the Republic of Mauritius.
We delve into why inclusive leadership is crucial for Africa’s development and the convergence of scientific innovation and inclusive leadership as a development driver.
Her Excellency, Professor Gurib-Fakim, talks of her eclectic journey to the pinnacle of leadership. She illuminates why inclusive leadership is not just right but smart and how Africa can move the needle on development by investing in its people.
Please subscribe to AgSpirations by AWARD to follow the conversations. You can find all episodes at https://awardfellowships.org/podcast
Hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya, AWARD works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for Africa by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation.
To find out more about AWARD, go to https://awardfellowships.org/ -
Deconstructing inclusive agricultural innovation systems. Are we making progress?
In this episode we are talking to Judith Ann Francis, from Trinidad and Tobago, one of the leading global experts on agricultural innovation systems.
As we discuss inclusive agricultural innovation systems, we ask, are we making any progress?
Please subscribe to AgSpirations by AWARD to follow the conversations. You can find all episodes at https://awardfellowships.org/podcast
Hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya, AWARD works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for Africa by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation.
To find out more about AWARD, go to https://awardfellowships.org/