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Background: The USAID Youth Literature Review conducts landscape analyses to evaluate the best way to harness the potential for rural youth-inclusive AFS livelihoods in 28 selected countries that reflect USAID and U.S. Government priorities in food security, resilience, nutrition, and water.
Research Highlights:
Invited Speaker, Can a Low-Cost Soybean Intervention Improve the Gender Gap in Productivity? Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana. Gender Across the Innovation Labs Workshop, USAID & Horticulture Innovation Lab, Washington, DC, June 6, 2019.
Invited Speaker, ‘Life is not fair, but we can make it more fair’: Assessing gender responsive agricultural development in the Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab. USAID TOPS Program / Food Security & Nutrition Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting, Washington, DC, July 19, 2017.
Invited Speaker, Gender empowerment in agricultural development: Soybean Innovation Lab. USAID Joint Meeting of the Feed the Future Innovation Labs: Soybean Innovation Lab, Nutrition Innovation Lab & Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Lab, National Press Club, Washington, DC, June 28, 2017.
Invited Discussant, Gender equity in agriculture/aquaculture development. Mississippi State University-FAO Blue Growth Roundtable Meeting. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Liaison Office for North America, Washington, DC, June 6, 2017.
Invited Speaker, What numbers tell us (and don’t) about men and women farmers in rural Ghana. USAID TOPS Program / Food Security & Nutrition Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting, Washington, DC, January 27, 2016.
Ragsdale, K., & Read-Wahidi, M.R. (2016, January). Faculty Research Support Program: USAID/Washington DC Trip Report. Mississippi State University International Institute and the Office of Research and Economic Development. Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University. 4 pp.
Invited Participant, WEAI Stakeholder Convening Meeting. USAID Bureau of Food Security, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, May 27, 2015.
Mississippi State University
Social Science Research Center
1 Research Blvd #102A
Starkville, MS 39759
Email: genderimpactslab@ssrc.msstate.edu
