The World Bank Group, UN agencies, and Data2X are aiming to fill vast data gaps related to women and girls and taking on a global assessment of the value of women’s work, as part of a broad effort to empower them and end extreme poverty. Read the announcement here.
Gender Methods Seminar: Using Cognitive Testing and Vignettes in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Today, IFPRI hosted a Gender Methods Seminar: Using Cognitive Testing and Vignettes in the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). Abstract: Presented by Katie Sproule and Chiara Kovarik, this Gender Methods Seminar will focus on lessons learned from two recent field tests done for the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). Using the qualitative methods of >> Read more
New publication on agricultural R&D in Africa: Promoting Women’s Participation in Agricultural Research
by Nienke Beintema, Head of the Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative, IFPRI While the number of female researchers employed in the agricultural research and development (R&D) in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) has increased substantially in recent years, women are still significantly underrepresented in many countries. This is one of the findings >> Read more
COP20: Climate change negotiators must consider the role of rural women
Outreach Magazine, a multi-stakeholder magazine on climate and development, has published a series of articles on climate change and gender for COP20, including a new post from Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division, on including women in the current climate change negotiations. She writes: As smallholder farmers in many parts of the world, women play >> Read more
Free journal article collection on gender and economics + comparison of gender indices
Routledge Economics is offering a free collection of journal articles and e-books on economics and gender for the month of December. A highlight for the Gender and Food Policy community is the following article: To measure is to know: A comparative analysis of gender indices Abstract: In this paper, I present a comparative analysis of five cross-country composite >> Read more
Interview with Ruth Meinzen-Dick on reducing the gender asset gap through agricultural development
Why is it important to close the gender asset gap, especially in agricultural development? In light of the upcoming Platform Annual General Assembly on gender and food systems, IFPRI's senior research fellow Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses in an in-depth interview with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development how agricultural development projects can understand how men’s and women’s control >> Read more
The South Asia Women’s Resilience Index
The Economist Intelligence Unit has created a new index that finds that South Asian countries largely fail to consider the rights of women in their disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience-building efforts. The Women’s Resilience Index (WRI), commissioned by ActionAid, with support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, assesses the extent of women’s >> Read more
Policy Reform toward Gender Equality in Ethiopia: Little by Little the Egg Begins to Walk
A new article by IFPRI researchers Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing in World Development is available open access here. Summary: There is growing interest in how reforms in different policy areas can be formulated in order to be consistent in promoting gender equality and empowering women. We use data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey (ERHS) to >> Read more
When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger
The 2015 Hunger Report, When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger, released by Bread for the World Institute, identifies the empowerment of women and girls as essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the United States. “Eliminating barriers and empowering women around the world is key to ending hunger in our >> Read more
Enhancing women’s assets to manage risk under climate change
A new volume of policy notes summarizes the findings from the project "Enhancing Women's Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches." From the IFPRI Research Program on Climate Change, Collective Action, and Women's Assets, the notes in this collection explore how to protect or strengthen women’s control over critical assets, including natural >> Read more
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