Although women's empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes …'s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within … to household-, women-, and child-level dietary and nutrition outcomes. We examine the relationship between women …

The development debate in Africa south of the Sahara is often cast as “agriculture versus nonagriculture.” Yet this … literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for … agriculture given the importance of farm incomes for the poor, the extent to which this is true varies by country. In fact …

agriculture has begun to result in improved levels and quality of national expenditure programs for the sector. It synthesizes … evidence from 20 Agriculture Public Expenditure Reviews (Ag PERs) that have been carried out in countries in Africa South of … agriculture, with particular reference to the explicit target by African heads of state in the 2003 Maputo Declaration on …

agriculture. To this end, heads of state in Africa rallied to form the pan-African Comprehensive African Agriculture Development … agriculture alone is not enough. Policy can play an important role not only to make public investment more efficient, but also is … crucial for incentivizing private sector and farmer investment in agriculture. Against this backdrop this paper takes stock of …