Gender considerations

Horticulture Innovation Lab research related to gender addresses ways horticulture can provide a pathway for women to improve their household's income and nutrition. Providing women equitable access to agricultural inputs and extension information can allow them to make better use of the benefits that horticultural crops can offer. The program has also purposely offered gender-focused training to its researchers, to enable them to better incorporate gender considerations into their research processes.

Janelle Larson

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics
The Pennsylvania State University

Janelle Larson is an associate professor of agricultural economics at Penn State University.

jbl6@psu.edu

Title slide: How to integrate gender equity strategies in horticulture value chains

Webinar: How to integrate gender equity strategies into horticulture value chains

Presentation, Video, 2019 Hort4Dev webinar series

Woman in traditional dress stands at a meeting to speak, holding a photo, with professional women seated on either side of her

6 lessons from research empowering women in agriculture in Honduras

Research in Honduras with Penn State and Zamorano reinforced that incorporating gender equity into project design is critical — and five other lessons.

Paige Castellanos

Assistant Research Professor
The Pennsylvania State University

Paige Castellanos is an Assistant Research Professor at Penn State in the Office of International Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences.

pxd171@psu.edu

Penn State News - photo with women farmers and headline: Farmer field school addresses food insecurity, gender inequality in Honduras

Distinguished professor
The Pennsylvania State University

Leif Jensen is Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at The Pennsylvania State University.