Ranjitha Puskur was a former Senior Policy Advisor for the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Until Sept 2014, she led the AAS gender strategy implementation. She has been part of the CGIAR since 2002, working at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and then moving to the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in 2005 where she led the research team working on ‘Innovation in livestock systems’. Her work focuses on generating knowledge, learning and evidence that can effectively translate into technical and institutional innovation and lead to developmental gender equitable outcomes. Ranjitha holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and a B.S in Commerce from St. Ann’s College for Women.
Ranjitha Puskur guest blogs on International Women’s Day about the need for gender equality for rural women in agriculture.
We are living in an increasingly unequal world. A recent UNDP report entitled ‘Humanity Divided’notes that while Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in low- and middle-income countries has doubled since 1990, more than 1.2 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty.
A guest blog by Ranjitha Puskur, WorldFish senior scientist and Elspeth Bartlet, communications specialist.
The WorldFish Building Coalitions, Creating Change workshop in 2012 brought together donors, researchers and practitioners on gender and development to discuss a gender transformative approach to agricultural research in development. The workshop was a major step forward in putting this concept into practice.
