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Publication: Understanding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Uganda and Nigeria
Access here We investigate gender differences in agricultural productivity using data collected in 2005 from Nigeria and in 2003 from Uganda. Results indicate that lower productivity is persistent from female-owned plots and female-headed households, accounting for a range of socioeconomic variables, agricultural inputs, and crop choices using multivariate Tobit models. These results are robust to >> Read more
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Publication: Access, Adoption, and Diffusion Understanding the Long-term Impacts of Improved Vegetable and Fish Technologies in Bangladesh
Neha Kumar & Agnes R. Quisumbing (IFPRI) Access it here This paper assesses long-term impacts of vegetable and polyculture fish production technologies on a variety of measures of household and individual well-being in Bangladesh. In 1996–1997, households were surveyed in three sites where nongovernmental organizations and extension programs were disseminating agricultural technologies—about two to six >> Read more
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Resource: IPS Gender Reporting Toolkits Published Online
Chairman, chairwoman, chairperson or chair? Housewife or homemaker? What is so controversial about contraception, the word 'family' or 'sex worker'? Does being gender-sensitive in news mean hiding the genders and sexes of people who appear in them? Inter Press Service announces a third edition of the "Gender and Development Glossary" to offer journalists and writers >> Read more
Funding: Women’s rights and gender equality
Norway has several RfPs available in order to strengthen Norwegian research on and for development in low- and middle-income countries as well as strengthen research capacity in these countries. There are opportunities available for research on “Women’s rights and gender equality” and “Globalisation of the environment, energy and climate research”. See the following website for >> Read more
Consultation: DFID reproductive, maternal and newborn health
DfID has launched an open consultation on reproductive, maternal and newborn health to inform their future work in this area. Improving reproductive, maternal and newborn health in the developing world is a major priority for the British government. DfID would like to hear from people in the UK and around the world – to help >> Read more
Opinion: Where domestic smoke and gender are killers–The biggest cause of death in low-income countries affects mostly women and is solvable. So why are we ignoring it?
by: claire melamed guardian.co.uk Looking through the World Health Organisation's figures on causes of death the other day (it's a cheerful life, being a development researcher), I was reminded of an astonishing – and shaming – fact. The biggest cause of death in low-income countries is not HIV, TB or malaria, not maternal mortality or >> Read more
Publications: Guatemala’s Indigenous Women in Resistance: On the frontline of the communities struggle to defend mother earth and her natural resources
Guatemala’s Indigenous Women in Resistance: On the frontline of the communities struggle to defend mother earth and her natural resources, Peace Brigades International (PBI), May 2010, by María Giovanna Teijido and Wiebke Schramm This report examines in details the roots of indigenous communities’ opposition to the installation of large cement plants, mines or hydroelectric projects on >> Read more
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