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-poor women. …
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, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect womenâ … women within the same households. …
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"Land is still among the most important assets of the rural population in the developing world. Land resources are governed by a variety of tenure systems based on statutory, customary, or religious law. At the same time, many national, subnational, and local institutions administer the...
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be particularly important for women. There is a potential, therefore, that provision of modest amounts of water to … smallholder farmers can enhance household economic production, save labor time for women and girls, and improve family health … spring protection and piped water to their members' homesteads. Members of those households, particularly women, have …
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promote equitable participation of women, the poor and other stakeholders are only now coming to light. This paper focuses on …
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Are public transfers targeted toward children largely neutralized by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold “flypaper effect” whereby such transfers “stick” to the child? This paper studies the impact of a school feeding program on child caloric...
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vendor survey conducted in two marketsheds during weekly fairs. No certified seed is sold. Almost all vendors are women who …
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withdraw children from school and increase the probability that they are selected into farm work. Health shocks to women …
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intellectual deprivation through investments in women's human capital may be more effective than previously suggested, but it will … require approaches that account for dimensions of women's human capital beyond just their schooling. Effective interventions … to improve women's biological and intellectual human capital often begin in utero or in early childhood; thus, their …
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suggest not only that men and women will be affected differently by the global food crisis, but also that, as both consumers … known about women's roles in agricultural production and household welfare, and the specific challenges they face, both to … craft more effective policy responses and to enable women to respond better to the current challenges and opportunities …
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