From Farmer to Planner and Back:

Harvesting Best Practices

8 to 12 December 1997

Rome

A Workshop on

Gender and Participation in

Agricultural Planning

Women in Development Service

Women and Population Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Funded by the Government of Norway

Contents

About the workshop and this report

The workshop symbol: the pomegranate

Abbreviations

PART 1

Workshop report

Acknowledgements

How it all came about?

Who was there?

The workshop objectives, methods and agenda

What happened?

Day one: Getting to know one another and defining the task /FONT>

Days two to four: Exercises and group work

Day five: Presentations by the working groups

The outputs: A common vision of agricultural planning

What comes next?

Annex 1: Summary of best practices

Annex 2: List of participants

PART 2

KEY ISSUES FROM TEN CASE STUDIES

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Gender and participation in agricultural planning

What is agricultural planning?

Participation

Participatory rural appraisal: PRA and MARP

Comparative analysis of the ten case studies

Introduction to project goals, approaches, methods and tools

The projects and their policy environments

Entry points: determining at what level to start and how to proceed

Tools and methods

Capacity building: whose capacities were enhanced and what methods worked best?

Gender information: major findings with relevance for agricultural planning

Linkages: how did projects connect with the various levels of agricultural planning?

Institutionalization: creating an enabling environment for gender-responsive participatory approaches to agricultural planning

Best practices

References