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EnGendering Data Blog
October 30, 2014
Women’s land ownership and decision-making
Do women landowners manage the plots of land that they own? There has been surprisingly little research on this question, although the answer is crucial to investigating whether there are gender differences in productivity or the adoption of new technology, among other issues. 
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EnGendering Data Blog
October 30, 2014
Avoiding a blank stare
Using cognitive pretesting to improve the WEAI As a researcher, how often have you wondered whether survey respondents understand your
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EnGendering Data Blog
October 30, 2014
Welcome to EnGendering Data blog!
This blog will share ideas on best methods and practices on collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data to improve our knowledge base on the role of gender in agriculture and food security.
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October 29, 2014
Malawi’s subsidy splurge
Do expensive fertilizer subsidy programs reduce poverty? In their discussion paper, Variable Returns to Fertilizer Use and Its Relationship to
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October 17, 2014
Arab Spatial launches Food Security Blog
A great collection of 4 inaugural stories of the new Arab Food Security Blog launched today to become an integral
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October 16, 2014
Why rural women are integral in the upcoming climate change negotiations
We know more and more about what our planet faces as climate change intensifies and greenhouse gas emissions lead us
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October 14, 2014
How to build resilience to conflict: The role of food security
This Food Policy Report explains why there is a need to place even higher priority on food security–related policies and
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October 10, 2014
Smallholder agriculture: “It’s a cool business!”
Expert panel discussed expanding commercial opportunities for the poor at recent CGIAR Development Dialogues Today nearly 450 million farmers work on
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October 6, 2014
How much food do women produce?
Women play important roles in all smallholder farming systems. Advocates for women farmers often claim that “women produce 60-80% of the world’s food.” Evidence, however, suggests that the underlying claim is simply a myth.
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