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Technological Innovation and Sustainable Intensification
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Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience
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WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
EnGendering Data Blog
March 9, 2020
Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization
Disentangling information and role model effects on women's empowerment in rural Uganda.
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Publications
December 12, 2019
Off the press: Governance of natural resources
Select 2019 journal articles from PIM and partners on natural resource governance.
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Events
November 14, 2019
Webinar: The role of land certification in securing women’s land rights on collective lands
This webinar by Land Portal aims to explore under what conditions formalization of collective tenure might improve women’s tenure security.
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Blog
May 6, 2019
Study: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has positive impact on participants’ welfare
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. The new study analyses impact of NREGS on key welfare measures of its beneficiaries - consumption expenditure, nutritional intake, and asset accumulation.
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Blog
March 28, 2019
Considering gender in irrigation: Technology adoption for women farmers
IFPRI researchers Elizabeth Bryan and Hagar ElDidi discuss the differences in how the costs and benefits of small-scale irrigation technologies are distributed among men and women within the same households, how this is linked to women's empowerment, and what should be done to ensure that women participate in and benefit from irrigation.
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August 24, 2018
Women at work
In the 1970s, Nepal began an ambitious nationwide forests rights devolution program, eventually seeing a significant range of forest uses and management taken out from the purview of the national government and put in the hands of Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs). PIM-supported research by CIFOR looks at the changes in ecosystem services following the shift to CFUGs, showing a host of improvements, particularly for women.
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August 7, 2018
New paper on relationship between autonomy and decision making contributes to understanding and measurement of women’s empowerment
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of women’s empowerment, ambiguity still exists about how best to define and measure it. Authors of the new paper use a framework developed by psychologists and data from Bangladesh and Ghana to examine if intrahousehold decision making (sole or joint) is correlated with autonomous motivation.
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June 11, 2018
Journal article: Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity
The new paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.
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May 18, 2018
Do men and women benefit equally from technology adoption? New paper explores
Researchers have sought to understand what keeps women’s observed rates of agricultural technology adoption low. But what happens after a new technology is adopted by a household? Do women’s lives really become better? Are they more empowered? A new paper explores these questions using the example of adopting small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania.
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