,117 households and 73 agricultural cooperatives. Using descriptive statistics and econometric analysis under a critical gender lens … in agricultural cooperatives. The findings suggest that a major barrier to women’s access are gender biases within …-poor women. …

reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge …

change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation … eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland …

governance to promote strategies and policies targeted toward the achievement of gender equity, poverty reduction, and …

We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child …

literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. In order to inform gender targeting of rural finance … 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 …

that should be taken into account in irrigation development to address nutrition and gender gaps with a focus on Africa …

development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … individual and household assets in seven countries in Africa and South Asia. The results show that assets both affect and are … control of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender …