Gender-Transformative Approaches for Sustainable Livestock Development: An AIM4C COP28 Roadshow Event

An event hosted by Land O'Lakes Venture37

In Kenya and Ethiopia, a private sector initiative is reducing net dairy emissions by establishing a market for nutrient-dense, climate-adapted forages. On December 6, join experts from Land O'Lakes Venture37, Corteva Agriscience, and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) for a virtual COP28 side event to discuss efforts to scale the Nourishing Prosperity Alliance's work to support women in managing their livestock to improve productivity while adapting to climate change and reducing methane emissions intensity.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023
9  - 10 a.m. ET
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Keynote

Ann Vaughan, Senior Advisor for Climate Change, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID

Speakers

Margaret Kasiko, Senior Gender and Youth Advisor, Land O’Lakes Venture37
Margaret (Maggie) Kasiko is the Senior Gender and Youth Advisor for Land O’Lakes Venture37. She is on a mission to work with and support women, girls, and young people to promote equal enjoyment of human rights. Trained as an educationist and a women and gender specialist, she has a unique 22-year background in gender and youth work with communities, national, regional, and global technical activities, and operations. She has experience working with civil society organizations, regional and international NGOs, USAID, DANIDA, Pathfinder International and Sight Savers International. Throughout her experience, she has worked at all levels to ensure gender equality and equity — while advocating for social inclusion programming, equal enjoyment of rights, and full participation of women and marginalized persons. She holds a degree in Education and a master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Betty Kiplagat, Government and Industry Affairs Leader, Africa and Middle East, Corteva Agriscience
Betty is a lawyer by training with more than 18 years’ experience in the agricultural sector. An important objective for Betty is fostering co-operation between governments and Industry to identify and highlight policy issues that might provide obstacles to the common goal of serving small scale farmers. Prior to joining Corteva Agriscience, Betty has been involved in establishing the legal office for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and playing an instrumental role in the AU-NEPAD Agency African Biosafety Network Expertise in Burkina Faso and Uganda. Betty holds Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law, a Bachelor of Law from Wolverhampton University in the U.K., and an LLM from the Franklin Pierce Law Center in the United States.

Alessandra Galiè, Gender Team Leader, International Livestock Research Institute
Alessandra Galiè works as 'Team leader: Gender' and 'Principal Scientist' at ILRI. She has over 20 years of experience conducting gender analysis for agricultural development focused on women's empowerment in livestock systems and in crop breeding. Before joining ILRI, she worked at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) undertaking gender research in empowerment, seed governance and participatory plant breeding. She obtained a PhD from Wageningen University and an MA from the University of London.