IFPRI's Sophie Theis recently published a blog for AgriLinks about women, irrigation, and empowerment. Congrats Sophie!
You can read her full blog post, "Can Irrigation Both Empower and Exclude Women?", here.
Sneak peek: "Empowering women farmers takes more than simply making new technologies available to them: it requires a deeper appreciation of the constraints and specific challenges that may prevent them from adopting and benefiting from it. In some cases, in fact, new technologies and interventions can unintentionally create new burdens for women. Hearing directly from women about the impact interventions have on their lives can help us better understand who..."
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