activities, there is potential for value-chain projects to have unintended consequences on gender dynamics. …

This paper explores initial findings from four case studies in the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project on changes … in gender relations in different agricultural interventions. It documents the adaptive measures projects are taking to … encourage gender-equitable value chain projects. Findings suggest that the dairy and horticulture value chain cases have …

differential access to and control over assets by men and women. After reviewing the literature on gender and assets, this paper … of assets. The framework generates gender-specific hypotheses that can be tested empirically: i) Different types of … individual(s) who control that asset; and iv) Interventions and policies that reduce the gender gap in assets are better able to …