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Les femmes et l’emploi rural - Lutter contre la pauvreté en redéfinissant les rôles propres à chaque genre
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2009
Environs trois quarts des pauvres à travers le monde vivent dans les zones rurales. Parmi eux, les femmes constituent un groupe particulièrement vulnérable et pourtant stratégique pour le développement économique et social. Investir au profit des femmes rurales ne répond alors plus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962193
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Women and Rural Employment - Fighting Poverty by Redefining Gender Roles
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2009
About three quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Among those, women constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet crucially important group for social and economic development. Investing in rural women is thus not only a moral imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962195
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La Mujer y el Empleo Rural - Combatir la pobreza redefiniendo los roles de género
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2009
Alrededor de tres cuartas partes de los pobres del mundo viven en zonas rurales. Entre ellos, la mujer constituye un grupo especialmente vulnerable pero de importancia decisiva para el desarrollo económico y social. Invertir en la mujer rural, por tanto, no es sólo un imperativo moral, sino...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962196
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Mothers' non-farm entrepreneurship and child secondary education in rural Ghana
Janssens, Charlotte; Van den Broeck, Goedele; Maertens, Miet - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110443
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The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
Groth, Markus - 2009
Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265210
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The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
Groth, Markus - 2009
Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545368
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Wage work for women: the menstrual cycle and the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2010
We hypothesise that women's participation in wage (off-farm) work is reduced when their greater water needs due to the menstrual cycle are not met because their household has poor access to water. For testing, we use the data from rural villages in China. Controlling for village fixed effects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276707
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Empowering women through livelihoods orientated agricultural service provision: A consideration of evidence from Southern Africa
Charman, A. J. E. - 2008
The paper considers the impact of livelihoods oriented agricultural service provision for smallholder farmers on gender … participatory, bottom-up approaches, from the early 1990s has brought favourable gender gains to women. The paper examines the … background to this shift in agricultural service provision. The resulting gender gains, we argue, should be seen in terms of Sen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284674
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Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We hypothesise that women's participation in wage (off-farm) work is reduced when their greater water needs due to the menstrual cycle are not met because their household has poor access to water. For testing, we use the data from rural villages in China. Controlling for village fixed effects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583492
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Evaluation of the Commission of the European Union’s Co-operation with Nepal : Country Level Evaluation ; Final Report ; Volume 1 – Main Report
Meindertsma, Jan Douwe (contributor);  … - PARTICIP GmbH Consultants für Entwicklung und Umwelt, … - 2012
, particularly in (i) Education, (ii) Rural Development, (iii) Renewable Energy and the Environment, (iv) Peace Building and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799374