Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua
This research contributes to the gender and development literature that seeks to understand and measure women’s agency (or empowerment) through the study of intra-household decision-making. In this same vein, it provides insights to practitioners for monitoring and evaluating women’s empowerment or...
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| author | García, Maria Alejandra Godek, Wendy Twyman, Jennifer |
| author_browse | García, Maria Alejandra Godek, Wendy Twyman, Jennifer |
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| description | This research contributes to the gender and development literature that seeks to understand and measure women’s agency (or empowerment) through the study of intra-household decision-making. In this same vein, it provides insights to practitioners for monitoring and evaluating women’s empowerment or agency as critical outcomes of agricultural development programs. Conducting research on household decision-making with smallholder farm families is important for designing effective research and development interventions that foster gender transformative change. This study focuses on rural communities in two Latin American countries, Nicaragua and Colombia. We begin with a brief discussion of the recent literature on household decision-making. We continue with a description of the research methodology followed by a presentation of the findings. The article closes with a discussion of the findings and their implications for the methodologies used to assess women’s agency in agriculture in the realm of development programs in Latin America. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1175862025-12-08T09:54:28Z Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua García, Maria Alejandra Godek, Wendy Twyman, Jennifer decision making gender equality women's empowerment smallholders research evaluation toma de decisiones igualdad de género potenciación de la mujer This research contributes to the gender and development literature that seeks to understand and measure women’s agency (or empowerment) through the study of intra-household decision-making. In this same vein, it provides insights to practitioners for monitoring and evaluating women’s empowerment or agency as critical outcomes of agricultural development programs. Conducting research on household decision-making with smallholder farm families is important for designing effective research and development interventions that foster gender transformative change. This study focuses on rural communities in two Latin American countries, Nicaragua and Colombia. We begin with a brief discussion of the recent literature on household decision-making. We continue with a description of the research methodology followed by a presentation of the findings. The article closes with a discussion of the findings and their implications for the methodologies used to assess women’s agency in agriculture in the realm of development programs in Latin America. 2021-12 2022-01-19T08:44:49Z 2022-01-19T08:44:49Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117586 en Open Access application/pdf García, M.A.; Godek, W.; Twyman, J. (2021) Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua. CIAT Publication No. 521. Cali (Colombia): International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). 24 p. |
| spellingShingle | decision making gender equality women's empowerment smallholders research evaluation toma de decisiones igualdad de género potenciación de la mujer García, Maria Alejandra Godek, Wendy Twyman, Jennifer Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua |
| title | Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua |
| title_full | Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua |
| title_fullStr | Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua |
| title_full_unstemmed | Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua |
| title_short | Joint decision-making and women’s agency on small-scale farms in Colombia and Nicaragua |
| title_sort | joint decision making and women s agency on small scale farms in colombia and nicaragua |
| topic | decision making gender equality women's empowerment smallholders research evaluation toma de decisiones igualdad de género potenciación de la mujer |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117586 |
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