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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 results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132826
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Women’s participation in agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia:
Woldu, Thomas; Tadesse, Fanaye; Waller, Marie-Katherine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
-poor women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132629
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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
, 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132703
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755479
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai (contributor); Nelson, Gerald C. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo – and explores how climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651
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Governing land: reflections from IFPRI research
Dohrn, Stephan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996797
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Is greater decisionmaking power of women associated with reduced gender discrimination in South Asia?
Smith, Lisa C.; Byron, Elizabeth M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"Recent research has shown that improving women's decisionmaking power relative to men's within households leads to … improvements in a variety of well-being outcomes for children. In South Asia, where the influence of women's power is particularly … on nutritional status, this paper presents the results of a study investigating whether increases in women's power have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997381
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The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh:
Rakib, Muntaha; Matz, Julia Anna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886775
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Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda:
Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kumar, Neha; McNiven, Scott; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … and nonland assets controlled by women, affect adoption and diffusion decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886776
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Managing risk with insurance and savings: Experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa:
Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272207