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A qualitative assessment of a gender-sensitive agricultural training program in Benin: Findings on program experience and women’s empowerment across key agricultural value chains
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Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important aspect of empowerment.
Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programme impacts on time use and associations with nutrition outcomes
Success of nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programmes targeted to women may be influenced by increased demands on women's and other household members' time and by time‐related trade‐offs to accommodate programme participation.
Women’s empowerment, extended families and male migration in Nepal: Insights from mixed methods analysis
Women’s empowerment is dynamic across the life course, affected not only by age but also by women’s social position within the household.
Intersectionality and addressing equity in agriculture, nutrition, and health
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Developing survey-based measures of gendered freedom of movement for use in studies of agricultural value chains
Freedom of movement is an important aspect of women’s empowerment, especially in the context of rural transformation as women attempt to transition from subsistence agriculture into more remunerative roles, such as involvement in higher nodes of t
Migration, labor, and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh
As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women.
Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh
The importance of women’s roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little is known about whether such projects improve women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Measuring time use in developing country agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda
This paper discusses the challenges associated with implementing time-use surveys among agricultural households in developing countries and offers advice on best practices for two common measurement methods: stylized questions and time diaries.