SPOTLIGHT
“The Time is Now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives”
IFPRI is spotlighting our work related to closing gender gaps in agriculture, poverty, and health around the world. Research plays an important role by providing the evidence on the costs of gender imbalances and benefits of eliminating them, and the effective approaches that present pathways to enduring positive change.
The IFPRI Strategy: Gender Research outlines how we strive to incorporate a gender component into our work; and our Gender Task Force brings representatives from all IFPRI offices together to help coordinate, support, and communicate IFPRI gender research.
Below are some highlights from our recent gender work, and you can find more detailed information on IFPRI's gender research, tools, and projects on our Gender page.
Blogs
- International Women's Day: In the Fight against Malnutrition, Empower Women's Groups First
- International Women’s Day: Self-help Groups Aid Communication, Empowerment in India
For more blogs on gender and rural development, see our Gender at IFPRI blog series
Research
- Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL project)
- Gender Agriculture Assets Project (GAAP and GAAP2)
- Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
- Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
Major Publications and Contributions to the Literature
Journal Articles
- Women's Land Rights as a Pathway to Poverty Reduction: Framework and Review of Available Evidence
- Pathways from Women's Group-based Programs to Nutrition Change in South Asia: A Conceptual Framework and Literature Review
- Women in Agriculture: Four Myths
- Home Ownership as Status Competition: Some Theory and Evidence
- Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability
- The Competitive Saving Motive
- Short Maternal Stature Increases the Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Preterm Births in Llow- and Middle-Income Countries
- Estimates and Determinants of Sexual Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- An Assessment of the Gender Gap in African Agricultural Research Capacities
Policy Notes, Project Papers, and Discussion Papers
- Overcoming Gender Gaps in Rural Mechanization: Lessons from Reaper-Harvester Service Provision in Bangladesh
- Integrating Gender into Small-Scale Irrigation
- What Happens after Technology Adoption? Gendered Aspects of Small-scale Irrigation Technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
- Mothers’ Non-farm Entrepreneurship and Child Secondary Education in Rural Ghana
