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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
interventions, and microfinance programs—on women’s empowerment, nutrition, or both. …This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132692
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Agricultural and economic development strategies and the transformation of China and India:
von Braun, Joachim; Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"The reform experiences of China and India—similar in some ways and different in others—shed light on the enormous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996826
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Reducing poverty and hunger in India: the role of agriculture
Ahluwalia, Montek S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"India's strategy for reducing poverty and hunger has always placed a great deal of importance on the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996842
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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
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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/10004997069
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Women: still the key to food and nutrition security
IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action set goals for empowering women in developing nations. Over the five years since the Beijing +5 review assessed progress toward these goals, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has generated new studies reaffirming that empowering women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997083
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Empowerment through technology: Gender dimensions of social capital build-up in Maharashtra, India
Padmaja, Ravula; Bantilan, Cynthia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Maharashtra, India, a systematic documentation of the process by which farmers – both men and women - as well as the whole …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105980
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Measuring and accounting for community capabilities in Kordofan, Sudan:
Harizi, Khalid El; Klemick, Heather - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"Parallel to the growing attention being devoted to the relationship between empowerment and development, an increasing … number of tools are being developed to measure empowerment and determine the link between these two phenomena. This paper … account the non-identity of poverty reduction and empowerment processes, at least when the targeted agents are communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038136