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journal article

Measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture: Innovations and evidence

global food security
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2023
| by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Steven Cole, Marlene Elias, Simone Faas, Alessandra Galie, Hazel Malapit, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Emily Myers, Greg Seymour and Jennifer Twyman

This paper addresses women's empowerment in agriculture, innovations in its measurement, and emerging evidence. We discuss the evolution of the conceptualization and measurement of women's empowerment and gender equality since 2010.

brief

Uncovering more than a decade of WEAI use in USAID projects

WEAI Applications and Insights
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2023
| by Lindsey Moore, Madhu Dissanayake, Hazel J. Malapit and Ara Go

Since its launch in 2012, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) has been widely used in USAID projects to prioritize and target activities that aim to promote women’s empowerment.

journal article

Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh

food policy
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2023
| by Akhter Ahmed, Fiona Coleman, John F. Hoddinott, Purnima Menon, Aklima Parvin, Audrey Pereira, Agnes R. Quisumbing and Shalini Roy
We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers.