Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms
Although migration remains crucial for economic development, financial constraints may limit individual ability to migrate.
Although migration remains crucial for economic development, financial constraints may limit individual ability to migrate.
In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging.
Gender differences in the engagement of work activities across sectors are important elements of gender inequality in rural livelihoods and welfare in developing countries.
Enhancing women’s participation in agricultural production, including livestock production, has the potential to generate a range of benefits for rural households in the developing world.
Livelihoods are changing rapidly in rural areas. Measuring and categorizing peoples’ labor activities in relation to the agricultural sector is important for understanding income earning opportunities and designing effective policy.
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.
Lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members can lead to both losses & biases as fatigue grows during interviews.
While the lockdown in Ghana due to COVID-19 was not as stringent or long as in other countries (at least up to June 2021), it has severely affected rural household incomes, including remittances.
Household economists have recently begun to use laboratory experiments to study behavior between spouses. While several connect inefficiency in the lab to specific constraints on decision-making (e.g.
Background: Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is a major global priority.
To address malnutrition in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), more evidence is needed about the potential of food system innovations to help guide the transformation towards healthier, more sustainable, and equitable food systems.
Tremendous optimism prevails around bottomup accountability — a situation in which citizens effectively hold their government to account.
This study presents qualitative findings from an assessment conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute and Cultural Practice, LLC of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) Agri
Le Sénégal a signalé son premier cas de COVID-19 le 2 mars 2020, déclenchant ainsi, deux semaines plus tard, l’instauration de mesures barrières par le gouvernement pour ralentir la propagation du virus.
Senegal reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 2, 2020.