Introduction
- Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition
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Cash transfers are a popular tool to address poverty and food insecurity, but can they also reduce women’s risk of intimate partner violence?
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2017 Global hunger index by severity
Note: For the 2017 GHI, data on the proportion of undernourished are for 2014–2016; data on child stunting and wasting are for the latest year in the period 2012–2016 for which data are available; and data on child mortality are for 2015.
What is the impact of agricultural development projects on women’s and men’s assets?
The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP)
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Using Cognitive Pretesting to Improve the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index Survey
Poster prepared for presentation at the 2015 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association & Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28, 2015
At a 2012 meeting of the World Health Assembly, all 193 UN member nations committed to achieving global nutrition targets by 2025. So far, the number of countries on course to meet the global targets is much too low.
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Women's empowerment in agriculture
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index measures women’s empowerment by assessing five domains. It also compares women’s scores in these five areas with those of other men in their household to measure gender parity.