In the Indian family setting, women play a crucial role in the overall development of the households. Hence, development agencies and government programs mainly target women, assuming that empowering women would improve families.
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Control over future payouts and willingness to pay for insurance: Experimental evidence from Kenyan farmers
Weather variability and extreme shocks in Africa: Are female or male farmers more affected?
African agriculture is highly sensitive to weather variability and extreme weather shocks. The question of how weather events affect participation in agricultural employment—including from a gender perspective—remains unanswered.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September of 2021, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.
Empowering women with digital extension in Uganda: Effects of information and role models
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.
Do agriculture interventions increase aspirations? An examination from the lens of caste and gender
We use priming, a concept popular in social psychology, to study the effect of identity salience on aspirations for one’ self and children as part of an impact evaluation in Odisha, India.
Working women and caste in India: A study of social disadvantage using feature attribution
Women belonging to the socially disadvantaged caste-groups in India have historically been engaged in labour-intensive, blue-collar work.
Gender and preferences for non-farm income diversification: A framed field experiment in Ghana
Many rural development programs aim at improving women’s economic empowerment in agriculture, but as rural income continues to diversify, women may prefer investing in nonfarm activities.