Anne Gighangi of the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) discusses how her team is leading workshops to empower women in farming communities near Njoro, Kenya. Gender courses led by Cornell’s Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) program and attended by Cornell’s Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat (DGGW) teams are changing attitudes for a growing number of smallholder farmers in East Africa and empowering women to take on a greater role in household farming activities.
