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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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This study, thus, 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...
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This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then proceeds to review the evidence of the impact...
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the factors that lead to women’s managing the plots that they nominally control. Women control about 30 percent of the … plots in the data but manage only about 70 percent of those plots. Using a unique panel dataset, the study finds that women …
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