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We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being … agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives, intrahousehold gender dynamics regarding decisions about crop choice and child … exchange, suggesting again that gender dimensions of networks may be important to diffusion of the crop. We use data from an …
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This paper investigates the long-term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities on men's and women's asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Panel data spanning a 10-year period are used to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable...
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preferred foods in general. A combination of short-term measures to protect diet diversity and micronutrient consumption of …
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This paper examines how women’s perception of the division of household assets upon divorce affects women’s well-being and child schooling outcomes in rural Ethiopia. Findings suggest that women who perceive that their husband would get all the assets in case of a divorce also tend to...
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There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key … to be consistent, so that they reinforce each other in improving gender equity. We use data from the Ethiopian Rural …, and changes in the Family Code implemented in 2000—may have created conditions for mutually reinforcing gender …
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transfer rights, and rights related to gender equity and inheritance) has an impact on these investments. …
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There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key … to be consistent, so that they reinforce each other in improving gender equity. We use data from the Ethiopian Rural …, and changes in the Family Code implemented in 2000—may have created conditions for mutually reinforcing gender …
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This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men’s and women’s asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996–97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new...
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