The CGIAR research program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets recently launched an exciting blog, Engendering Data, which brings in diverse expert perspectives on collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data to improve the knowledge base on the role of gender in agriculture and food security.
In a new post, Avoiding the Risk of the Unknown, Sonia Aker, leader of the Gender Research Team at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), discusses her team's innovative approach to surveying women for a study on index insurance in coastal Bangladesh. She concludes with some interesting findings on women's decision-making and insurance demand.
Visit the Engendering Data blog to read Avoiding the Risk of the Unknown: Lessons learned from a gender inclusive survey on index insurance in coastal Bangladesh.
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