How development organizations can help women’s empowerment
Fostering genuine empowerment is a complex process. Here's the role organizations can play.
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International Women’s Day 2016: Empowering women with data and evidence in Bangladesh
One of a researcher’s biggest fears is that research outputs go unread, gathering dust on people’s shelves before ending up in the recycling bin. However, this fear was unfounded for our work on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI),…
Empowerment matters: “Invisible women” in Niger produce less food
Niger is a hot landlocked country, mostly covered by the Sahara desert with a rainy season of only three months.
Why women’s empowerment is worth measuring
How can agriculture be a path to gender equality? The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a transformational tool that identifies ways to empower women working in agriculture. The project team recently announced the release of a new…
Women’s empowerment in agriculture
On March 8, IFPRI joins individuals and organizations around the world in celebrating International Women’s Day. The theme this year, “Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture It!” urges us to both celebrate connections between women and…
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2014
This Saturday marks International Women’s Day. The theme this year is “equality for women is progress for all,” and IFPRI’s gender work is essential to its larger mission of achieving food and nutrition security for all and reducing poverty levels…
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Index”
Last year, IFPRI researchers, in partnership with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Oxford Poverty& Human Development Initiative (OPHI), developed the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a tool designed to…
Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
By Emily Hogue, Team Leader for Monitoring and Evaluation, Bureau for Food Security, USAID. Originally posted in Feed the Future Blog Last March, Feed the Future launched a tool to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture—the first of its…
Fellowships on Gender and Agriculture Awarded
IFPRI and its partners are pleased to announce that Jessica Ham (University of Georgia), Brooke Krause (University of Minnesota), Christopher Manyamba (University of Pretoria), and Greg Seymour (American University) have been awarded a Ph.D.…
International Women's Day 2012
On March 7th, the eve of International Women's Day, a launch event was held at the Houses of Parliament for the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). The Index was released at the UN in New York on February 28. The theme for this year's…