Media Advisory no.: MA/01/11 Joint FAO/IFAD/ILO Media Advisory Rome, 19 January – Three United Nations agencies are to launch a ground-breaking study and a set of action-oriented policy briefs on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas here on 21 January. The findings have important implications for how economic and food price crises affect >> Read more
Publication: Does it Matter Whether Public Cash Transfers are Given to Women or Men? Evidence from the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO Programs in Rural Mexico
This paper aims at evaluating the impact of two different cash transfer programs in rural Mexico - Procampo and Progresa - on total consumption, food consumption and other outcomes like investment, schooling and health care. Progresa is targeted to women, while Procampo goes to farmers, mostly men and many of which are poor. We show >> Read more
Publication: How Do Women Weather Economic Shocks? What We Know
Authors: Shwetlena Sabarwal, Nistha Sinha, and Mayra Buvinic Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? First-round impacts of economic crises on women’s employment should be more prominent in this recent economic downturn than historically because of women’s increased participation in the globalized workforce. Second-round impacts result from the strategies that vulnerable households use to >> Read more
Publication: Journal of Development Studies Special Section on Assets and Gender
Women's Property Rights and Gendered Policies: Implications for Women's Long-term Welfare in Rural Tanzania Amber Peterman Tenure Insecurity, Gender, Low-cost Land Certification and Land Rental Market Participation in Ethiopia Stein T. Holden; Klaus Deininger; Hosaena Ghebru How Access to Credit Affects Self-employment: Differences by Gender during India's Rural Banking Reform Nidhiya Menon; Yana van der Meulen Rodgers For >> Read more
Publication: The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
The Global Gender Gap Index was created with the specific purpose of being comparable across time. The 2010 Report aggregates five years of data and seeks to reveal country progress in a transparent manner. By doing this, we hope this Report will serve as a call to action to the international more...
Publication: Climate change and gender: economic empowerment of women through climate mitigation and adaptation?
The discourse on climate change does not pay adequate attention towomen, either at the local project level or in international negotiations.Women are unable to voice their specific requirements even though theimpact of climate change affects women and men differently. In severalrural areas of the more...
Publication: Asset Dynamics in Northern Nigeria
This paper examines household asset dynamics and gender-differentiated asset inequality over a 20-year period (1988–2008) in northern Nigeria. We show that the initial endowments of both household capital and livestock holdings are inconsistent with the poverty trap hypothesis but that tracking rules for households in panel surveys may lead to differences in empirical results on >> Read more
Publication: New FAO/IFAD/ILO report “Gender Dimension of Agricultural and Rural Employment: Differentiated Pathways out of Poverty”.
This report reflects the latest thinking on the gender dimensions of rural poverty and employment, based on the outcomes of a recent workshop organised by FAO, IFAD and ILO. The workshop sought to deepen analysis of the gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment, identify research gaps and examples of good practice in addressing gender >> Read more
Resource: Corporate-level evaluation on IFAD’s performance with regard to gender equality and women’s empowerment
The IFAD corporate gender evaluation is now accessible on the web and will be discussed at up-coming EB seminar (13 December) and EB session (14-16 December). http://www.ifad.org/gbdocs/eb/ec/e/65/EC-2010-65-W-P-4.pd
Publication: Development & Change Special Issue on ‘Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development’
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