Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development.

Background

In situations with imperfect information, the way that value chain actors perceive each other is an important determinant of the value chain's structure and performance.

To gain a better understanding of intrahousehold bargaining processes, surveys increasingly collect data from co-heads individually.

We use CDRs of mobile phone users in Uganda combined with data from a phone survey to train machine-learning models to predict the sex of the mobile phone user and several indicators of economic empowerment such as ownership of a house and land, o

Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.

We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention.

We study the validity of experimental methods designed to measure preferences for intra-household resource control among spouses in Ghana and Uganda.

The objective of this chapter is to contribute to the policy debate on the changing landscape of agricultural extension and advisory services in Uganda.

Meat, Milk & More: Policy Innovations to Shepherd Inclusive and Sustainable Livestock Systems in Africa highlights options for sustainably promoting growth in the livestock sector, drawing from what four African countries—Ethiopia, Mali, South

While education access has improved globally, gains are uneven, and development impacts driven by increases in education continue to be left on the table, especially in rural areas.

In Africa south of the Sahara, more than 12 million new jobs a year are needed in rural areas to absorb young entrants. Agriculture provides scalable economic opportunities that can also reduce poverty.

This paper discusses the challenges associated with implementing time-use surveys among agricultural households in developing countries and offers advice on best practices for two common measurement methods: stylized questions and time diaries.

We examine the role of gender dimensions of intrahousehold bargaining power and decision making in the adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato (OSP), a biofortified crop being promoted to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A in Uganda.

Women often have less access to agricultural information than men, constraining their participation in decision-making on crops, technologies, and practices.

In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to female members.

In smallholder households that engage in commercial agriculture, women are often involved in the phys-ical labor related to the cash crop, but do not engage in the market-facing activities.

Women’s empowerment is a significant element of economic development (Duflo 2012).

In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to women.