We investigate gender differences in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. Results indicate persistent lower productivity on female-owned plots and among female-headed households, accounting for a range of socio-economic variables, agricultural inputs and crop choices using multivariate tobit models. Results are robust to inclusion of household-level unobservables and alternative specifications that account for decisions to >> Read more
Publication: “A woman and Her Land”
The Uganda Land Alliance recently conducted a field study in 8 districts to establish the progress women have made vis avis their rights to land. The districts covered were: Amuru, Apac, Gulu, Pader, Hoima, Kyenjojo, Mubende and Jinja. Between May and July 2011, a Documentation Team embarked on field trips to the study districts and >> Read more
Publication: Gender & agroforestry in Africa: Are women participating?
This report synthesises the results of a review of 104 studies on gender and the adoption of agroforestry in Africa, and aims to identify strategies that challenge gender imbalances in development initiatives. It explores women's participation in agroforestry, including their ability to manage agroforestry practices, access to agroforestry information, and how they benefit from agroforestry. >> Read more
Policy Brief: Women and Food Insecurity
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is dedicated to supporting research that promotes social justice and equality and disseminating it widely. I am writing today to share with you CSW’s recently initiated publications series rethinking public policy on gender, sexuality, and women’s issues. Each CSW Policy Brief presents research in support of >> Read more
Publication: World Bank Report Women, Business and the Law 2012: Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion
About the Women, Business and the Law Project: The project measures how regulations and institutions differentiate between women and men in ways that may affect women’s incentives or capacity to work or to set up and run a business. Women, Business and the Law objectively measures such legal differentiations on the basis of gender in >> Read more
Publication: Better Access to Water Raises Welfare, But Not Women’s Off-Farm Work
Authors: Gayatri Koolwal & Dominique van de Walle In the developing world, poor rural women and their children spend considerable time collecting water. Do women living in areas where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in income-earning, market-based activities? Do the education outcomes of their children tend to be worse? >> Read more
Publication: Rural Women and Corporate Investment in African Land
Joint Oxfam and ActionAid paper prepared by Nidhi Tandon, Marc Wegerif and Catherine Access it here: http://landforafricanwomen.org/sites/default/files/docs/Rural%20Women%20and%20Corporate%20Investment%20in%20African%20Land.pdf
Resource: Social Institutions and Gender Index
Social Institutions and Gender Index The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a new composite measure of gender equality, based on the OECD’s Gender, Institutions and Development Database. It complements and improves existing measures in several ways. While conventional indicators of gender equality capture inequality more...
Resource: New Chicago Council report calls for increased investment in rural adolescent girls
London October 2011 – Adolescent girls living in rural areas of the developing world have untapped potential to drive economic development and help meet the world’s future food supply needs, says a new report released by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Girls Grow: A Vital Force in Rural Economies (PDF) identifies opportunities to empower rural girls >> Read more
Multimedia: Women and Agriculture: A Conversation on Improving Global Food Security
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State See the two videos and transcription of the conversation on http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/09/172739.htm
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