Volume 5, Number 1
July 1999

List Is Five Years Old

The GENDER-CG listserve is five years old this year! GENDER CG (now GENDEV, see below) was established in 1994 to provide mutual support and encouragement to researchers working on gender and intrahousehold issues at the centers in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR, or CG for short), in national agricultural research systems, universities, and at related nongovernmental organizations involved in food and agricultural policy. Since its inception GENDER-CG has grown from 100 to 400 members in more than 40 countries. Many of the members of this listserve do not belong to the CGIAR and member interests have expanded from gender and intrahousehold issues in agriculture to gender issues in development as a whole.

In the past five years GENDER-CG has hosted an e-mail conference on gender and property rights and published six issues of the Gender-CG Newsletter, a hard-copy complement to the e-mail discussion on the listserve. Other CGIAR-sponsored gender discussion groups have sprung up as well. The CGIAR's Systemwide Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA) Program is running five listserves:

• PRGA-Info (general information on the Systemwide Program)
  prga-info@cgnet.com;
• PRGA-NRM (discussions on Participatory Natural Research Management)
  nrmgroup-prga@cgnet.com;
• PRGA-PPB (discussions on Participatory Plant Breeding)
  PPBgroup-PRGA@cgnet.com;
• PRGA-Resource (a "new" support mechanism for field researchers in PRGA); and
• Gender-research (a closed listserve of CG gender focal points).

Taking into account the IFPRI/GENDER-CG track record, the PRGA Program approached IFPRI to officially take on the task of managing GENDER-CG as the systemwide mechanism in support of research on gender and development. IFPRI accepted this responsibility and took the opportunity to change the name of the listserve from GENDER-CG to GENDEV (Gender and Development Research Network). IFPRI felt that this new name better represented the new and expanded audience.

To subscribe to GENDEV simply send a message to listserv@cgiar.org. The text of the message should have the following on the first line (and nothing else in the body of the message): SUBSCRIBE GENDEV .

You will receive a welcome message with additional information after you subscribe.

New subscribers are also encouraged to send a brief message to the list introducing themselves, and indicating their particular interests or research in gender and development.