extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child …

from 144 village-level governments in India's Tamil Nadu state, we examine whether the gender and caste of village … accordance with gender or caste preferences; and 2) whether public goods provision differs based on the knowledge level of the … village government leader. We find evidence of different preferences for public goods between men and women, and between …

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 …

improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household … 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 … control of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender … asset gap. The quantitative and qualitative findings suggest ways that greater attention to gender and assets by researchers …

This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major … (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh (EUP), India. …