Happy International Women's Day! IFPRI authors have recently released a new GCAN-CSISA policy note. Emerging markets for agricultural machinery services in South Asia present opportunities to start new businesses and mechanize agriculture. Yet at first glance, female participation appears extremely low. Research from GCAN, CSISA, and CSISA-MI in Bangladesh offers insights for how to build >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Countdown to 2030: Tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health
DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673618301041 TITLE: Countdown to 2030: Tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health CONTRIBUTORS: Boerma, Ties; Requejo, Jennifer; Victora, Cesar G; Amouzou, Agbessi; George, Asha; Agyepong, Irene; Barroso, Carmen; Barros, Aluisio J D; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Black, Robert E; Borghi, Josephine; Buse, Kent; Aguirre, Liliana Carvajal; Chopra, Mickey; Chou, Doris; Chu, Yue; Claeson, >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: How many people will an intervention reach? A how-to guide for indirectly estimating the number of pregnant women in a subpopulation
IFPRI's Jessica Heckert and Elena Martinez published a new blog about estimating the number of pregnant women in a sub-population. SNEAK PEEK: When deciding how to design or whether to fund a nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention, we need to know the potential scope of impact. How many people will we reach? On several occasions, we have been >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Can Irrigation Both Empower and Exclude Women?
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 >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Property rights, intersectionality, and women’s empowerment in Nepal
Access full article here. TITLE: Property rights, intersectionality, and women’s empowerment in Nepal AUTHORS: Rajendra Pradhan, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Sophie Theis ABSTRACT: Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women’s rights to property, especially to physical assets such as land and livestock. However, the relationship between >> Read more
NEW BLOG: Using qualitative methods to understand the local meaning of women’s empowerment in Ethiopia
Dr. Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, recently published a new blog about using qualitative methods to understand women's empowerment. Susan is an external advisor on the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) Portfolio, a collection of twelve projects seeking to adapt and validate a survey >> Read more
ICYMI: Cash Transfers, Polygamy, and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Mali
IFPRI's Melissa Hidrobo presented her recent research about cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence in Mali last week. You can access her powerpoint slides here for more information. SUMMARY: Evidence shows that transfers targeted to women can reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but little evidence exists on the effects of transfers targeted to men. Whereas >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Pathways from women’s group-based programs to nutrition change in South Asia: A conceptual framework and literature review
TITLE: Pathways from women's group-based programs to nutrition change in South Asia: A conceptual framework and literature review AUTHORS: Neha Kumar, Samuel Scott, Purnima Menon, Samyuktha Kannan, Kenda Cunningham, Parul Tyagi, Gargi Wable, Kalyani Raghunathan, Agnes Quisumbing ACCESS PUBLICATION HERE. ABSTRACT: Improving the nutritional status of women and children in South Asia remains a high public health and >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Integrating gender into small-scale irrigation
TITLE: Integrating gender into small-scale irrigation AUTHORS: Sophie Theis, Nicole Lefore, Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick ACCESS FULL PUBLICATION HERE. ABSTRACT: Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) interventions, like other development interventions, need to take into account men’s and women’s context specific roles in agriculture and their related gender-based preferences and challenges. Understanding gender differences related to SSI technologies >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Gender-Sensitive, Climate-Smart Agriculture For Improved Nutrition In Africa South Of The Sahara
IFPRI's Elizabeth Bryan, Sophie Theis, Jowel Choufani, Alessandro De Pinto, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Claudia Ringler recently published the Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition integration (GCAN) framework. ACCESS THE PUBLICATION HERE: http://www.resakss.org/node/6483?region=aw ABSTRACT: What is the climate-smart agriculture, gender, and nutrition nexus? Providing an integrated conceptual framework to guide interventions in the context of climate change, the authors argue that >> Read more
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