IFPRI has published a new resources document highlighting its most recent gender work, including information from: a report a book chapter journal articles brochures websites You may review this new resource here!
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Time-use analytics: An improved way of understanding gendered agriculture-nutrition pathways
TITLE: Time-use analytics: An improved way of understanding gendered agriculture-nutrition pathways ABSTRACT: There is a resurgence of interest in time-use research driven, inter alia, by the desire to understand if development interventions, especially when targeted to women, lead to time constraints by increasing work burdens. This has become a primary concern in agriculture-nutrition research. But are time-use >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India
TITLE: Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India ABSTRACT: Women’s self-help groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social, political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. Although a growing body of >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Measurement properties of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
TITLE: Measurement properties of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index ABSTRACT: Given the need for valid measures of women’s empowerment to monitor SDG5 and design advantages of pro-WEAI, an assessment of its measurement properties is warranted. This paper has three aims: 1) to assess in two GAAP2 projects the measurement properties of survey question >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: Gender-disaggregated analysis from Mozambique
TITLE: Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: Gender-disaggregated analysis from Mozambique ABSTRACT: This study examines the drivers of tenure insecurity in Mozambique using data from the National Agricultural Survey (TIA) 2014 as well as a follow-up supplemental survey with detailed land tenure gender-disaggregated data from three groups: namely, principal male, principal female, and female >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)
TITLE: Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) ABSTRACT: In this paper, the authors describe the adaptation and validation of a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that agricultural development projects can use to identify key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address identified deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research
TITLE: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research ABSTRACT: There is growing recognition of the importance of women’s empowerment in its own right and for a range of development outcomes, but less understanding of what empowerment means to rural women and men. The challenge of measuring empowerment, particularly across cultures and contexts, is also garnering attention. >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: How do agricultural development projects empower women? Linking strategies with expected outcomes
Happy New Year! TITLE: How do agricultural development projects empower women? Linking strategies with expected outcomes AUTHORS: Nancy Johnson, Mysbah Balagamwala, Crossley Pinkstaff, Sophie Theis, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Agnes Quisumbing Increasing numbers of development agencies and individual projects espouse objectives of women’s empowerment, and there is a growing body of conceptual and empirical work on how >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Considering gender when promoting small-scale irrigation technologies: Guidance for inclusive irrigation interventions
ABSTRACT: Many actors promoting irrigation technologies in low- and middle-income countries want to ensure that men, women, and different social groups have equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from irrigation but are uncertain how to do so. This tool provides a guide and structured set of questions to assess gender dynamics in irrigation in a >> Read more
RESOURCES: Special Issue of Review of Development Economics on Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare
The Review of Development Economics has released a special issue on Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare, accessible here: https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/female-autonomy-and-women%E2%80%99s-welfare
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