Livestock Data for Decisions published an article on research, data collection, and the gender gap. The livestock data gap is slowly narrowing, but an enormous chasm still exists for data around women in livestock that has hindered essential progress. An innovative tool, developed by USAID (Feed the Future), the International Food Policy Research Institute, and OPHI, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (or WEAI), is the first-ever measurement tool to track women’s engagement in agriculture and directly capture women’s empowerment and inclusion levels in the production of crops and livestock.
