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This paper investigates linkages between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana. The sample consists of 3,344 children and 3,640 women and is statistically...
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We study BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women in poor households. Previous research has shown large, significant positive...
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structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then …
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With the increasing recognition that agricultural growth and development do not necessarily translate into improved nutrition outcomes, policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to design and implement agricultural policies and programs that can also achieve nutritional objectives....
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significant gender disparities persist in access, control, inheritance, and ownership of land at the grassroots level. One …
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world. This brief brings together IFPRI's most recent research findings on gender and food security and offers proof to … policymakers that reducing gender disparities promotes better food and nutrition security for all....IFPRI's research findings … task requires policies that eradicate gender discrimination, proactively promote catch-up for women, and involve women …
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as a mechanism to stimulate gender-equitable change processes. Our evidence suggests that the technology uptake process … the ways in which social networks and social relationships facilitated technology dissemination. Gender relations played a …
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