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Is women's empowerment bearing fruit? : mapping women's empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI) results using the gender and food systems framework
Myers, Emily C.; Heckert, Jessica; Faas, Simone; … - 2023
We conduct a synthetic review of the literature examining relationships between domains of women’s empowerment and food system outcomes. Many studies report significant positive associations between women’s empowerment and intrahousehold gender equality with child dietary and nutrition...
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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592972
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Postharvest technologies : implications for food policy analysis
Greeley, Martin - 1991 - 1. print
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000818552
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Wenn die Bauern wiederkommen : Frauen, Arbeit und Agrobusiness in Venezuela
Werlhof, Claudia von - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000700171
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Los efectos potenciales del tratado de libre comercio entre Ecuador y Estados Unidos en las mujeres rurales ecuatorianas
Parada, Soledad (contributor); Morales, César (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314815
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Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
Ali, Daniel; Bowen, Derick; Deininger, Klaus - 2015
Women comprise 50 percent of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage plots that are reportedly on average 20 to 30 percent less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564669
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Rural women and Agricultural Production in Imo State South-Eastern Nigeria : Problems and Prospects
Omeire, Edward - 2018
The discourse on women in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa has shifted in recent times from call for recognition to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920264
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Feminization of Agriculture : Trends and Driving Forces
Lastarria-Cornhiel, Susana - 2012
increasingly shoulder the responsibility for household survival and respond to economic opportunities in commercial agriculture …--smallholder production and agro-export agriculture--and the economic and socio-cultural forces that are driving this trend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554335
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The Gendered Effects of Climate Change : Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217913
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Women in Agriculture : The Impact of Male Out-Migration on Women's Agency, Household Welfare, and Agricultural Productivity
World Bank - 2015
drivers of the so-called feminization of agriculture in Latin America. This feminization has relevance for everyone given … agriculture's role in regional food security, national shared prosperity, and household resilience to shocks. The objective of … this study is to investigate the feminization of agriculture as well as its implications for women's agency, household …
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