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Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh, findings show that several factors are key to breaking chronic and transient poverty.
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Women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural value chains: Evidence from four countries in Asia and Africa
Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms or gender-specific barriers.
Background: Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is a major global priority.
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Women’s empowerment and farmland allocations in Bangladesh: Evidence of a possible pathway to crop diversification
Climate change will likely affect several of the dimensions that determine people’s food security status in Bangladesh, from crop production to the availability and accessibility of food products.
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Learning in times of lockdown: How Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India
A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation.
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Future challenges, trends, and opportunities
Much of my research has been on the need for collective action in managing natural resources, and the value of groups to facilitate collective agency for women’s empowerment.
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A mixed-methods evaluation of community-based healthy kitchens as social enterprises for refugee women
Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the potential impact of a community-based intervention - the Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children (HKHC) intervention - on participating women’s household’s economics and food security status, deci
The paper by Garcia and Wanner reviews examples of gender-responsive research and programming from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to discuss those genderresponsive approaches w