Our friends at IFAD recently published a manual about measuring women's empowerment. This publication is part of IFAD's research series, which you can access more of here. Click here to access the full manual. ABSTRACT: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) can be a useful tool to measure the empowerment, agency and inclusion of >> 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
NEW PUBLICATION: Using cognitive interviewing to improve the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey instruments: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda
TITLE: Using cognitive interviewing to improve the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey instruments: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda AUTHORS: Hazel Jean L. Malapit* , Kathryn Sproule, and Chiara Kovarik FULL ACCESS: http://agrigender.net/views/cognitive-interviewing-to-improve-women-empowerment-from-bangladesh-and-uganda-JGAFS-222017-1.php ABSTRACT: The purpose of cognitive interviewing is to systematically identify and analyze sources of response error in surveys, and to use that information to improve >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Women in agriculture: Four myths
AUTHORS: Cheryl Doss, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Sophie Theis ACCESS: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll5/id/6006 HIGHLIGHTS: Stylized facts on women, agriculture, and the environment continue to circulate. Four myths are inspected against the conceptual and empirical literature. These myths hinder the development of effective food security policies.
New from IFPRI authors: Gender, climate change, and resilient food systems: Lessons from strategic adaptation by smallholder farmers in Cameroon
ACCESS: https://www.ifpri.org/publication/gender-climate-change-and-resilient-food-systems-lessons-strategic-adaptation AUTHORS: LILIAN NKENGLA-ASI, SURESH CHANDRA BABU, HOLGER KIRSCHT, SCARLETT APFELBACHER, RACHID HANNA, AMARE TEGBARU ABSTRACT: Climate change has major impacts on the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa south of the Sahara. Vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and to being chronically poor, women farmers are unequally and more negatively affected by climate change and seasonal changes than >> Read more
NET RESOURCES: Women’s and Gender Studies Research Network
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is pleased to announce the creation of Women's & Gender Studies Research Network (WGSRN) with 17 eJournals focusing on major areas of scholarship. It will provide a worldwide, online community for women's & gender studies research and the intersection of these studies and other areas of research, following the model of SSRN's other >> Read more
EVENT: Brown Bag Lunch on Women’s Land Rights at the World Bank on October 25
The Agriculture Global Practice, the Land Thematic Group and the Gender and Rural Development Community of Practice (GENRD) invite you to join us for a presentation and discussion of IFPRI’s work on Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: A framework and review of available evidence by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Cheryl R. Doss, and Sophie >> Read more
New from IFPRI AUTHORS: Gender asymmetries: Impacts of an early-stage school intervention in the Philippines
TITLE: Gender asymmetries: Impacts of an early-stage school intervention in the Philippines AUTHORS: Futoshi Yamauchi and Yanyan Liu ABSTRACT: This paper examines long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school cycle on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a survey that tracked nearly 3,500 former students in the Philippines. The >> Read more
PUBLICATION: Gender Dimensions on Farmers’ Preferences for Direct-Seeded Rice with Drum Seeder in India
This study measures the willingness of male and female farmers to pay for climate-smart technology in rice. Rice is the most important crop in India in terms of area, production, and consumption. It is also the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions among all crops. Direct-seeded rice (DSR) with drum seeder, a climate-smart technology, requires >> Read more
New IFPRI Discussion Paper: Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: A framework and review of available evidence
Authors: RUTH SUSEELA MEINZEN-DICK, AGNES R. QUISUMBING, CHERYL R. DOSS, SOPHIE THEIS Paper available for download here. Abstract: Land is an important asset for rural households, and having secure land rights is important for poverty reduction. Despite the large body of literature on the relationship between land tenure security, livelihoods, and poverty, most of this literature is based on household-level >> Read more
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