TITLE: Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh AUTHORS: Hazel Malapit, Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed ABSTRACT: Development programs that reduce gender gaps are expected to not only improve women’s well-being, but also their children’s. This draws on a growing body of literature that shows a strong positive association between women’s status and >> 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
NET RESOURCE: Gender, Land and Mining in Pastoralist Tanzania
Mokoro recently published a report that provides insights into the impact of mining on women and vulnerable groups in Maasai communities. Key findings include: mining, population growth and climate change are major stresses on communities high levels of violence against women among communities download the full report here and a summary of key findings and recommendations here
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 CG AUTHORS: Gender and social targeting in plant breeding
TITLE: Gender and social targeting in plant breeding CITATION: Orr, A., Cox, C.M., Ru, Y. and Ashby, J. 2018. Gender and social targeting in plant breeding. CGIAR Gender and Breeding Initiative Working Paper 1. Lima (Peru): CGIAR Gender and Breeding Initiative ABSTRACT: Gender and social targeting can improve the relevance and effectiveness of plant-breeding programs serving resource-poor farmers, >> 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
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
NET RESOURCES: December issue of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security (Agri-Gender) now available
The Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security (Agri-Gender) recently published their December 2017 issue online. You can access the full issue here. The following articles are included in the December issue: Factors Associated with Food Insecurity among Female Savings Group Participants in Burkina Faso Authors: Jessica Wilkinson, Kate Strickling, Yvonne Allsop, Megan Gash and Benjamin >> 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
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