Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …

household survey panel data. Land is owned mostly by men, who are wealthier than their spouses with respect to almost all types …

We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child …

whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … additional sources of life cycle risk—particularly health risks associated with fertility and childcare—that men do not. In …

that should be taken into account in irrigation development to address nutrition and gender gaps with a focus on Africa …

development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … control of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender … asset gap. The quantitative and qualitative findings suggest ways that greater attention to gender and assets by researchers …

This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major …

between the impact of the intervention on men and on women is narrowed when taking into account the gender …-differentiated paralegal effort, and thus costs, allocated to women and men. …Gender disparities continue to exist in women’s control, inheritance, and ownership of land in spite of legislation …

by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual … gender gaps in landownership across countries. However, critical data gaps cloud our understanding of land rights and why … women fare better or worse in certain countries. In particular, the limited information on joint and individual ownership …