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1. Lift productivity and
reduce poverty
2. Contribute to hunger reduction
and improved nutrition
MAIZE: Strategic Initiatives
3. Contribute to sustainability
and resource efficiency
SI 1: Socioeconomics and policies for maize futures
SI 2: Sustainable intensification and income opportunities for the poor
SI 3: Smallholder precision agriculture
SI 4: Stress tolerant maize for the poorest
SI 5: Towards doubling maize productivity
SI 6: Integrated postharvest management
SI 7: Nutritious maize
SI 8: Seeds of discovery
SI 9: New tools and methods for NARSs and SMEs
Figure 8. System Level Results Criteria. The bars for each Strategic Initiative show the extent to which it
contributes to the three goals of the Strategic Results Framework of the CGIAR (CGIAR 2010).
Gender strategy
Male and female roles in agricultural production and household decision‐making (resource allocation,
technology adoption, marketing and consumption) vary across the target regions of Africa, Asia and
Latin America. Gender relationships are embedded in complex social systems, generating status, power
and decision‐making roles that result in a gender‐based division of labor, control and access to resources
and incomes, preferences and needs. Consequently research interventions may differently affect the
welfare and poverty conditions of men and women, and specific efforts are needed to address genderspecific
issues and disparities between women and men.
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