"Although women play a critical role in agricultural growth in developing countries, men and women smallholder farmers – even within the same household – often have different needs and priorities and experience different constraints in their access to agricultural resources and decision-making power. In sub-Saharan Africa, women farmers are vulnerable to inequalities in access to >> Read more
WEBINAR: ‘Women’s land: Beyond “access” to rights’ from the CG Gender Platform
Date: Friday, September 7, 2018 From the platform: "For most rural households, land is the most valuable asset and the foundation for agricultural production. While a large literature exists on the relationships between land tenure security, livelihoods, and poverty, most of this literature is based on household-level data, and we know little about women’s land >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Does women’s time in domestic work and agriculture affect women’s and children’s dietary diversity? Evidence from Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Ghana, and Mozambique
TITLE: Does women’s time in domestic work and agriculture affect women’s and children’s dietary diversity? Evidence from Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Ghana, and Mozambique AUTHORS: Hitomi Komatsu, Hazel Jean L.Malapit, and Sophie Theis DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.07.002 ABSTRACT: There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could negatively affect nutrition by limiting the time available for nutrition-improving reproductive work. However, very >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Conservative outlook, gender norms and female wellbeing: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18302080 Title: Conservative outlook, gender norms and female wellbeing: Evidence from rural Bangladesh Authors: Tanima Ahmeda (American University) and Binayak Sen (DSGD at IFPRI) Abstract: Following Identity Theory proposed by Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we conceptualize the interactions between conservative outlook and female wellbeing through influencing gender norms. Conservative households often prefer women to stay home, which correlates >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Farm diversification and food and nutrition security in Bangladesh: empirical evidence from nationally representative household panel data
TITLE: Farm diversification and food and nutrition security in Bangladesh: empirical evidence from nationally representative household panel data AUTHORS: Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam; Joachim von Braun; Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman; Akhter U. Ahmed ABSTRACT: Existing literature suggests that farm production diversification has the potential to influence the diet diversity of farmers, but that the magnitude of >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Introducing pro-WEAI: A tool for measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development projects
"In April 2018, the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), launched the pilot version of the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). Pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index for measuring empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. Developed jointly by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
TITLE: What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania AUTHORS: Sophie Theis, Nicole Lefore, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Elizabeth Bryan ABSTRACT: Diverse agricultural technologies are promoted to increase yields and incomes, save time, improve food and nutritional security, and even empower women. Yet a gender gap in technology adoption remains for >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh
ABSTRACT: As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh
ABSTRACT: The introduction of new agricultural technologies is never gender-neutral, but the differential changes are not always immediately evident. While the most visible gender gaps between men and women appear in the hands-on use of technologies, in the case of agricultural machinery, gender differences also arise in farmers’ ability to rent and hire machinery. To >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Women in Agriculture: Four Myths
The final open access version of a recent IFPRI publication Women in Agriculture: Four Myths by Ruth Meinzen-Dick is now available online, containing full bibliographic details. The URL below is a quick and easy way to share your work with colleagues, co-authors and friends. Anyone clicking on the link will be taken directly to the final >> Read more
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