 I am Agnes Lariba. I work for Care International in Ghana. I'm speaking on the topic of using veterinary service as an entry point to transform gender norms. Do smallholder livestock keepers still matter in today's food systems? I'll say yes, they do. They do because in Ghana, over 3 million livestock keepers and their families depend on livestock for food and income. Goats and chickens are particularly important for women's livelihoods. However, viral infections such as PPR in goats and new castle disease in chicken cause high mortality, thereby affecting their livelihoods. Vastans are available. However, use of vastans by women is limited. This is because there's low demand for vastans by women. The vastan delivery system doesn't necessarily target women and there are challenges with the cold chain. Our team of three key institutions composed of Care International in Ghana, the International Livestock Research Institute and Cow Tribe Technology Limited is researching to understand what it takes to develop a vastan delivery system that works for both women livestock keepers and women service providers. How are we transforming gender norms in this sector? We are doing this by working with communities to understand the cultural and traditional practices that limit the ability of women to access vastans and to also serve as vet officers. So far, we have understood the key norms. These include the fact that women cannot declare ownership of their animals. They cannot participate in selling their animals. And then women vets are considered not as equally capable and some traditional beliefs such as the fact that when a woman is menstruating and faces an animal pen, the animals will die. We have recruited two female vets on the project to understand the potential of reaching women farmers through women vets. We are also rolling out a digital vastan delivery system that enables both male and female farmers registered to have the animals vastinated. And we have invested in providing refrigeration for vastans. We are seeing potential of these approaches and we see some impacts so far. We see that vastan demand by women has increased. 4,000 women are accessing vastans through the vastan delivery system and we deliver over 10,000 doses of vastans and more. The female vets feel more accepted by the communities. More than 91% of farmers report satisfaction with the service they receive from them. We have reduced vastan wastage by a third. Achieving the potential of transforming food systems in Africa through the livestock sector depends on the vastan delivery system that works for both male and female farmers. Based on lessons of our work, these are our three key recommendations. One, let's insist that it's both male and female vet officers to target women with vastans. Two, let's encourage women to train as vet officers so that we can have more female vets. And three, let's improve cold chain by working with the private sector. I'll end by thanking our donors, the International Development Research Centre, the Bill and Bennington Gates Foundation and Global Affairs Canada.