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Women's self-help groups, decision-making, and improved agricultural practices in India: From extension to practice
This research was undertaken as part of the Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS) study, and was aimed at understanding ways to improve agricultural practices among women farmers in India.
Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya
This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.
Empowering women, enhancing nutrition, and ending poverty: IFPRI and Canada
Global changes with wide-reaching impacts include rapid urbanization, climate change, conflict-driven migration, and dietary transitions as well as uncertainty regarding trade and foreign investment.
Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh
As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013).
Review: Time use as an explanation for the agri-nutrition disconnect? Evidence from rural areas in low and middle-income countries
Time is a vital input into nutritional outcomes, as it is necessary for the production, procurement and preparation of food, child feeding and childcare.
Women’s empowerment in agriculture and dietary quality across the life course: Evidence from Bangladesh
Using nationally representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality.
Response to Garcia and Wanner “Gender inequality and food security: Lessons for the gender-responsive work of the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” Food Security (2017) 9:1091–1103
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
Measuring time use in development settings
This paper discusses the challenges associated with collecting time-use data in developing countries.