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What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition-related practices and outcomes in Ghana?:
Malapit, Hazel J.; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132650
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How do intrahousehold dynamics change when assets are transferred to women? Evidence from BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor program...
Das, Narayan; Yasmin, Rabeya; Ara, Jinnat; Kamruzzaman, Md. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
We study BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women in poor households. Previous research has shown large, significant positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132684
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Women’s empowerment and nutrition: An evidence review:
van den Bold, Mara; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Gillespie, Stuart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the … interventions, and microfinance programs—on women’s empowerment, nutrition, or both. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132692
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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index:
Alkire, Sabina; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Peterman, Amber - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment …€™s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development … of the WEAI. The WEAI can also be used more generally to assess the state of empowerment and gender parity in agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132703
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture, production diversity, and nutrition: Evidence from Nepal:
Malapit, Hazel Jean L.; Kadiyala, Suneetha; Quisumbing, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
With the increasing recognition that agricultural growth and development do not necessarily translate into improved nutrition outcomes, policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to design and implement agricultural policies and programs that can also achieve nutritional objectives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132743
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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey … factors that might affect empowerment and outcomes that might result from empowerment. The analysis includes thirteen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132826
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Evaluation of grassroots community–based legal aid activities in Uganda and Tanzania: Strengthening women’s legal knowledge and land rights:
Peterman, Amber; Billings, Lucy; Behrman, Julia A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
typically designed as pro–poor to enhance legal empowerment of marginalized groups...A qualitative study of CBLA programs in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132842
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Woodlot devolution in Northern Ethiopia: opportunities for empowerment, smallholder income diversification and sustainable land management
Jagger, Pamela; Pender, John L.; Gebremedhin, Berhanu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
This paper explores the patterns and determinants of empowerment, income generation, and environmental sustainability … regarding harvesting high value products are limiting the potential for smallholder income diversification and empowerment, two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996656
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Property rights and collective action in watersheds
Swallow, Brent M.; Johnson, Nancy; Knox, Anna; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
According to the authors, "watersheds define a terrain united by the flow of water, nutrients, pollutants, and sediment. Watersheds also link foresters, farmers, fishers, and urban dwellers in intricate social relationships. Both factors—the biophysical attributes and the policy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996912
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Implementing a human rights approach to food security
McClain-Nhlapo, Charlotte - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
insecure. Empowerment is integral to any strategy that moves away from the benevolence model of food aid and instead emphasizes … enabling environments that support people in feeding themselves. Empowerment also removes the full burden of providing food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996942