Abstract: This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in northern Ghana. Using a new survey-based index, the women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, we conduct individual-level analyses of nutrition-related indicators including exclusive breastfeeding, children’s dietary diversity >> Read more
New publication: Gender mainstreaming in agroforestry
The World Agroforestry Center has published a new guide for designing and implementing gender research in agroforestry. The guide presents the steps for integrating gender in agroforestry along the stages of the research and development (R&D) cycle: needs assessment, project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Available here.
IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar: Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings: Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in West Africa
Presented by Clara Delavallade, Research Fellow, IFPRI Markets, Trades, and Institutions Department The public is welcome to join the seminar via GoToMeeting (instructions below). The screencast of this event is available here, and the Powerpoint presentation here. Abstract: Despite growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still >> Read more
Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change: New knowledge for renewed action
Watch the presentations from the March 19 seminar organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) with the videos now available, here: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/closing-gender-gap Objectives of the seminar on "Closing the Gender Gap" included sharing key research results related to gender, climate change, agriculture and food security; discussing how such results are being used or >> Read more
Event: Gender, Land and Violence – A Case Study of Three Indian States
Gender, Land and Violence - A Case Study of Three Indian States by Dr. Govind Kelkar - Landesa, India Tuesday, March 31, 2015 10:00 am - 11:30 am at the Heinrich Boell Foundation - North America 1432 K Street, NW, #500 Washington D.C., 20005 Light refreshments will be served RSVP Now! Background: Dr. Kelkar will present >> Read more
Job opportunity: Senior Scientist – Gender Specialist with WorldFish in Malaysia
Background: WorldFish has an opening for a Gender Specialist with demonstrated excellence in designing, implementing, analyzing, and producing high quality scientific outputs in relation to gender in rural development contexts. WorldFish has made a particular commitment to gender mainstreaming in its research programs and to a gender positive environment in its workplace. To that end, >> Read more
Training: Measuring and Monitoring Gender Behavior Change in Agriculture Programs
April 16, 2015 - 9:00AM-4:00PM Carnegie Conference Center, 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC CARE’s work in the agriculture sector aims to challenge the discriminatory gender and social norms that undermine agricultural productivity and food security in smallholder agriculture systems. However, monitoring behavior changes related to gender remains a complex, nuanced, and challenging endeavor. In this >> Read more
Launch of new gender integration resources on March 25
The 2014 Storybook is a collection of gender integration stories from ACDI/VOCA, Catholic Relief Services, Lutheran World Relief, Mercy Corps, Project Concern International, and World Vision. This document was developed through technical support from Cultural Practice, LLC. Integrating Gender throughout a Project's Life Cycle 2.0 is a customizable resource applicable to a wide range of development practitioners, >> Read more
Poverty Action Lab roundtable on “Qualitatively Measuring Women’s Empowerment”
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia at IFMR organized the final roundtable in the Gender, Evaluation and Empowerment Series on "Qualitatively Measuring ‘Women’s Empowerment’: Lessons from South Asia” on 16 February, 2015 in Mumbai. The video of the roundtable can be viewed here and the presentations and agenda are attached for your reference: Agenda Evaluating the Evolution of >> Read more
New EnGendering Data blogpost: “Do you own the asset?”
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Markets, and Institutions (PIM) has another great post on the EnGendering Data blog. In "Do you own the asset?", R Padmaja and Dr. Cynthia Bantilan of ICRISAT discuss small but critical changes they made to their survey instrument to collect better data on women's asset ownership. Read the full post here, and >> Read more
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