Women Farmers: Unheard Being Heard

Sugandha Munshi, Senior Specialist and has an intensive experience of more than a decade (12 years) working in the field of gender mainstreaming including research. She has had extensive experience in providing strategic and technical leadership to government programs and projects, ensuring partnership between various key stakeholders in education and agriculture towards gender mainstreaming. She has had received various national and international recognitions and awards related to her work in the field of gender and women empowerment like National Women Achievers Award India 2014, Young achievers Award 2018, Helrevo Women Achievers Award, IWD 2020, Inspiring Change Award, Planet 50-50 by 2020, Bihar India. From 2014 to 2018 she has held the position of Global Shaper in World Economic Forum representing India and she is also South Asia Ambassador for World Youth Social Enterprise, United Kingdom. Working in IRRI as a senior specialist, she has had various international as well as national publications on the work related to women farmers. With a system thinking approach she is working to mobilize science and knowledge by designing innovations to mainstream women in Agriculture and developmental outcome for farmers. She has had incepted the "Kisan Sakhi Model" for women in agriculture in Bihar, India focusing on Self Help Group as the conduit. Her PHD entitled "Role of Self-Help Groups in Empowering women in Agriculture in Muzaffarpur Bihar India is due in 2022.

Madhulika Singh, Scientist and as an agricultural professional she has been working with CIMMYT for last 9 years with an essence of agriculture research, extension and applying for all. Her experience as a research fellow has been with Indian Institute of Maize Research, Pusa Delhi where she did her PhD research work in affiliation with Banasthali University. She completed her Masters from Banasthali and Graduation from Gargi College, University of Delhi. Her inclination towardsworking at the ground level and for gender equality motivated her to be associated with the project for a long time. Her 10 years in the field of research has been versatile. She specialises in Maize Physiology and has done work on agriculture extension, tissue culture and molecular markers. The extension activities that she has been associated in CIMMYT includes sustainable agriculture, resource conservation, food security, farmers and extension workers training and have been coordinating with the National Agriculture Research and Extension Systems (NAREs). Her focus has been research, extension activities related to balancing gender and this involves a lot of interaction with female and male farmers, understanding their requirements and then to provide technical inputs around those.

Sugandha Munshi，資深專家，擁有超過十年的性別主流化領域的豐富經驗，包括研究。她在為政府計畫和項目提供戰略和技術領導方面擁有廣泛的經驗，確保教育和農業等各主要利益相關者之間的合作，以推動性別主流化。她因在性別和女性賦權領域的工作而獲得多項國內和國際的認可和獎項，如2014年印度國家女性成就獎、2018年青年成就獎、2020年國際婦女節Helrevo女性成就獎、2020年啟發變革獎以及2020年全球50-50計畫的獎項。從2014年到2018年，她擔任世界經濟論壇的全球塑造者，代表印度，並且是英國世界青年社會企業的南亞大使。作為國際水稻研究所的資深專家，她在與女性農民相關的工作上發表了多篇國際及國內的出版物。她採用系統思維的方法，致力於通過設計創新來動員科學和知識，以促進女性在農業中的主流化及農民的發展成果。她在印度比哈爾州為女性農業創立了「Kisan Sakhi Model」，重點是以自助小組作為媒介。她的博士論文題為「自助小組在賦權比哈爾州Muzaffarpur女性農民中的角色」，預計於2022年完成。

Madhulika Singh，科學家，作為農業專業人士，她在CIMMYT工作了9年，專注於農業研究、推廣及其應用。她作為研究員的經驗來自印度玉米研究所，位於德里Pusa，並在Banasthali大學進行博士研究。她在Banasthali完成碩士學位，並在德里大學的Gargi學院獲得學士學位。她對基層工作和性別平等的熱情促使她長期參與該項目。她在研究領域的十年經歷多樣化，專長於玉米生理學，並在農業推廣、組織培養和分子標記方面有相關工作。她在CIMMYT參與的推廣活動包括可持續農業、資源保護、糧食安全、農民及推廣工作者培訓，並與國家農業研究和推廣系統（NAREs）協調合作。她的重點是與性別平衡相關的研究和推廣活動，這涉及與女性和男性農民的廣泛互動，了解他們的需求，並提供相應的技術支持。