Author: Adebayo B. Aromolaran Source: Agricultural Economics VL: 41 NO: 3-4 PG: 239-249 YR: 2010 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00442.x US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00442.x ABSTRACT This article addresses the important but not widely investigated question of how calorie consumption in African low-income households would respond to intrahousehold redistribution of income from men to women. Specifically, I use survey data on >> Read more
News: Giving Women Farmers a Boost in Nicaragua
By José Adán Silva Source: IPS Genderwire MANAGUA, Jun 1, 2010 (IPS) - Josefina Rodríguez very nearly lost her life trying to protect the small plot of farmland in rural Nicaragua that allows her to support her family. Twelve years ago her husband wanted to sell the land, and when she stood up to him, >> Read more
Event: Promoting Gender Equitable Behaviors Among Men and Boys; Emerging Lessons From India
Summary: There is growing recognition that men and boys must be engaged in programs to end violence against women, prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS and create more gender equitable societies. ICRW is at the forefront of these endeavors. Two ICRW programs in India are targeting young men to transform unequal and harmful social >> Read more
Resource: New IFPRI Dataset on Chronic Poverty and Long Term Impact Study in Bangladesh
The Chronic Poverty and Long Term Impact Study in Bangladesh project, which focuses on 102 villages characteristic of rural Bangladesh, aims to further our understanding of the economic, social and political processes that shape chronic poverty in Bangladesh together with the impact of selected anti-poverty interventions on poverty dynamics. After initial community level fieldwork approximately >> Read more
Publication: Innovations in Land Rights, Recognition, Administration & Governance
Joint Organizational Discussion Paper—Issue 2 THE WORLD BANK, GLTN, FIG, AND FAO. Authors: Klaus Deininger, Clarissa Augustinus, Stig Enemark, and Paul munro-faure This volume is a product of the Annual Conference on Land Policy and Administration that is jointly organized by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, the Global Land Tool Network, >> Read more
Event (DC): Frontline Innovations in Maternal Health Care; Meeting Africa’s Urgent Need for Skilled Midwifery and Fistula Repair
The International Center for Research on Women and AMREF are pleased to present a seminar on The provision of effective maternal health care has very clear health system requirements. The first is that community health care facilities must function and provide the basic services that save mother and newborn lives, including skilled staff, essential commodities and >> Read more
Publication: Gender & Development an Evaluation of World Bank Support 2002-2008
In 2001 the World Bank adopted a gender equality policy as a means to help reduce poverty. This policy was outlined in Integrating Gender into the World Bank's Work: A Strategy for Action (referred as the 2001 Gender Strategy). Through this evaluation IEG finds that the World Bank made progress in gender integration between 2002 >> Read more
News: ICRW launches new Website
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) publicly launched new “broadband channel to the world.” Visit www.ICRW.org to see how ICRW makes women a central focus in alleviating and ultimately ending global poverty. Through the new site, you also can become more deeply connected to our work: Learn about ICRW’s work in more than 30 >> Read more
Publication: Closing the gender land gap The effects of land-titling for women in Peru
Authors: Daniela Orge Fuentes and Henrik Wiig ABSTRACT: Land formalization reforms in developing countries are often criticized for cementing historically unequal property rights between the sexes. The Peruvian formalization law is gender neutral and was only supposed to formalize existing informal property rights. However, protests from the feminist movement led the implementing agency to favour >> Read more
Publication: Gender & Governance in Bangladesh
On May 26-27, the Bangladesh Ministry of Food and Disaster Management will convene the Bangladesh Food Security Investment Forum 2010, which will be inaugurated by Bangladesh’s Honorable Prime Minister Sheik Hasina. The Forum is hosted by the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh with the support of the United States Agency for International Development, >> Read more
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