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This study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and, thus,...
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Using the 2009 round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey, this paper examines the medium-term impact of the land registration on investment behavior by households, particularly the adoption of soil conservation techniques and tree planting. It investigates whether men’s and...
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This paper uses a mixed-methods approach to analyze the impact of Helen Keller International’s Enhanced-Homestead Food Production pilot program in Burkina Faso on women’s and men’s assets and on norms regarding ownership, use, and control of those assets. Even though men...
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This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and …,344 children and 3,640 women and is statistically representative of the northernmost regions of Ghana where the Feed the Future …
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This paper explores initial findings from four case studies in the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project on changes in gender relations in different agricultural interventions. It documents the adaptive measures projects are taking to encourage gender-equitable value chain projects. Findings...
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This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional issues being faced by countries as they adapt to climate change, based on interviews with 87 practitioners working in government agencies, local organizations,...
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the entry of women into the labor force. We both find a much lower wage elasticity than Borjas to immigration (-0.2) and …
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women’s empowerment score, the number of groups in which women actively participate, women’s control of assets, and a … narrowing gap in empowerment between men and women within households are positively associated with calorie availability and …
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Bangladesh, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women in poor households. Previous research … women. …
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This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraq’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2013–2017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP...
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