What are the key gender objectives for livestock and fish value chains? What would be the approaches to achieve these gender objectives? How can overall project approaches be gendered to achieve food security, productivity and equity objectives?
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CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish 
The main objective for livestock and fish value chain will be to generate income and empowered rural women and safeguard their products and link with international market.
To create income generating opportunities for rural women.
Provide them with the skills to increase production from available resources. This may involve increasing production through cultural practices, breeding etc
Provide them with appropriate technologies for processing of production to extend product shelf lives
To facilitate the marketing of production this may involve NGO CSO sectors in the provision of micro-finance as well as the co-ordination of marketing
There must also be a focus on securing indigenous knowledge and perhaps a need to secure ip rights to any discoveries made during the research programmme