with farmers in three rural villages of Ethiopia and data from an IFPRI-CIMMYT (International Food Policy Research … Microfinance Institutions, the results show that women are involved in more time-consuming and simultaneous work activities than …

livelihoods, the International Food Policy Research Institute and partner organizations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, and Bangladesh … the network structures for climate change policy, the actors in the networks with high centrality and influence scores …

assumption may be problematic in developing-country agriculture, where women play a fundamental role in farming. Using gender …Although there is ample evidence of differences in how and where men and women acquire information, most research on …-disaggregated social network data from Uttar Pradesh, India, we analyze agricultural information networks among men and women. We test for …

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of … major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review … what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global, regional, and national levels, and—supported by the latest knowledge …

How research can feed into the policy process in developing countries in general, and in Nigeria more specifically, is … not very well understood. Yet, this understanding is a critical part of doing effective policy research. This has become … especially critical for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), which has set up a country office for policy …

household to increase the capacity within households to care for cows, a change which resulted in a significant number of women …

landownership between women and men in African countries. The first section of the paper engages in a conceptual discussion of how … factors is important for the development of gender and land statistics. The second section of the paper systematically reviews …-scale unpublished data on gender and land in Africa. Results provide not only a nuanced understanding of the importance of measuring …

daughters will earn over their lifetimes. To help right gender imbalances, the authors consider policies to encourage adoption … competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no … conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender …