Women’s empowerment, poverty, and crop productivity: Evidence from Uganda

Evidence suggests that women’s limited access to resources, agency, and associated achievements affect agricul tural productivity in much of Africa and Asia. These relationships are further mediated by poverty, which affects the livelihood strategies that are available to, and pursued by, rural wome...

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Autores principales: Welk, Lukas, Seymour, Greg
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140312
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description Evidence suggests that women’s limited access to resources, agency, and associated achievements affect agricul tural productivity in much of Africa and Asia. These relationships are further mediated by poverty, which affects the livelihood strategies that are available to, and pursued by, rural women and men. This policy note provides insights on how the relationship between women’s empowerment and crop productivity differs for households at different levels of poverty. The findings suggest that better-off households with more-empowered women achieve higher agricultural productivity, while the opposite holds for income-poor households with more-empowered women. Thus, to be successful, resilience strategies need to not only be gender-sensitive but also consider addi tional time and other constraints of income-poor women farmers.
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spelling CGSpace1403122025-11-06T07:04:43Z Women’s empowerment, poverty, and crop productivity: Evidence from Uganda Welk, Lukas Seymour, Greg income gender women's empowerment crops households livelihoods agricultural productivity women Evidence suggests that women’s limited access to resources, agency, and associated achievements affect agricul tural productivity in much of Africa and Asia. These relationships are further mediated by poverty, which affects the livelihood strategies that are available to, and pursued by, rural women and men. This policy note provides insights on how the relationship between women’s empowerment and crop productivity differs for households at different levels of poverty. The findings suggest that better-off households with more-empowered women achieve higher agricultural productivity, while the opposite holds for income-poor households with more-empowered women. Thus, to be successful, resilience strategies need to not only be gender-sensitive but also consider addi tional time and other constraints of income-poor women farmers. 2023-12-22 2024-03-14T12:09:17Z 2024-03-14T12:09:17Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140312 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139768 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Welk, Lukas; and Seymour, Greg. 2023. Women’s empowerment, poverty, and crop productivity: Evidence from Uganda. Reaching Women Farmers With CSA Policy Note 7. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137055.
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Women’s empowerment, poverty, and crop productivity: Evidence from Uganda
title Women’s empowerment, poverty, and crop productivity: Evidence from Uganda
title_full Women’s empowerment, poverty, and crop productivity: Evidence from Uganda
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