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and development implementers could improve outcomes for women in future projects. …
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To support gender analysis in agriculture, household surveys should be better designed to capture gender … guidelines on how to improve data collection efforts to ensure that women farmers are interviewed and that their voices are heard. …
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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...
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, life-cycle effects, and political participation. Across input areas, generally men have higher input measures than women …
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This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and …,344 children and 3,640 women and is statistically representative of the northernmost regions of Ghana where the Feed the Future …
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in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary … diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women’s empowerment in agriculture … women’s empowerment score, the number of groups in which women actively participate, women’s control of assets, and a …
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This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then proceeds to review the evidence of the impact...
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This paper studies women’s empowerment in northern Mozambique as it relates to agriculture, considering in particular … the factors that lead to women’s managing the plots that they nominally control. Women control about 30 percent of the … plots in the data but manage only about 70 percent of those plots. Using a unique panel dataset, the study finds that women …
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that can also achieve nutritional objectives. Agriculture has direct links to nutrition in that it provides a source of …
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