 I'm Ian Wright. I'm Deputy Director-General for Research and Development for Integrated Sciences here at the International Livestock Research Institute, Ilri. One of my first experiences of the importance of gender in the perception of introduction of new technologies and interventions was more than 20 years ago. I was collaborating with the Aga Cymru support programme in northern Pakistan. I was working in the Karakoram mountains surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas in the shadow of Rakhapushi, one of the highest mountains in the Himalayas. I was visiting a small village with some of my colleagues one afternoon and talking to the men of the village who told me that a local NGO had introduced a new breed of sheep. The men were really excited. These sheep were 25% bigger, their carxes were heavier, they made more money when they sold those sheep at the market. Meanwhile, one of my colleagues was talking to the women in the house next door. The women had a totally different view of these sheep. They were saying, oh, these sheep, the worst thing that ever happened to our village, they're bigger, they eat more food, we've got to spend more time collecting feed and for it for them, we don't have time to do anything else. That was a real eye-opener for me. There's an example of how men and women in this particular case in relation to rearing sheep, how men and women had a very different perception, a very different view of the introduction of a new technology. So since that afternoon in northern Pakistan 20 years ago, I've been very aware of the importance of gender and gender differentiation in agriculture and particularly livestock research.