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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Integrating Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition in National Agricultural Surveys: Country Experiences, Perspective and the Path Forward

Co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IFPRI
Hybrid Event

Nairobi

Kenya

December 2, 2025

  • 9:00 – 12:30 pm (Africa/Nairobi)
  • 1:00 – 4:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 11:30 – 3:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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Agrifood systems are essential to women’s livelihoods globally, yet their contributions often remain underrecognized. Women are disproportionately concentrated in informal, low-skilled, and labor-intensive roles and face limited access to resources and exclusion from key decision-making processes. To address these gaps, new tools have emerged to better assess women’s empowerment. Building on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), IFPRI, in collaboration with Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank, developed the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). This streamlined metric can be incorporated into large-scale surveys and measures empowerment across agricultural and non-agricultural livelihoods.

Women in low- and middle-income countries also face challenges related to poor diet diversity and insufficient micronutrient intake. In response, FAO introduced the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) in 2015, a simple indicator that identifies populations at risk of malnutrition. Similar to WEMNS, MDD-W can be integrated into national survey systems and has been applied in over 85 countries.

The 50×2030 Initiative to Close the Agricultural Data Gap—implemented by FAO and the World Bank—supports 50 countries in producing high-quality agricultural data to inform national policies and track global and regional development indicators. Through this initiative, WEMNS and MDD-W have recently been incorporated into agricultural surveys in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the United Republic of Tanzania, enabling measurement of women’s empowerment and nutrition status for policy planning.

FAO and IFPRI will hold a workshop to present the Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition questionnaire, share lessons from pilot studies, and support additional countries interested in integrating these tools. The workshop will be held in person on December 2-3, 2025. The livestream will be available virtually on December 2, from 09:00 to 12:30 Nairobi time. The session will be conducted in English. For more information please click HERE.

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