Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh?
Using a nationally representative survey from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI). Accounting for poten...
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| author | Sraboni, Esha Malapit, Hazel J. Quisumbing, Agnes R. Ahmed, Akhter |
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| description | Using a nationally representative survey from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI). Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, we find that increases in women’s empowerment are positively associated with calorie availability and dietary diversity at the household level. Overall, household wealth, education, and occupation are more important than women’s empowerment as determinants of adult nutritional status, although negative impacts of group membership and credit on male BMI suggest that intrahousehold trade-offs may exist. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1505922025-02-24T06:48:46Z Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? Sraboni, Esha Malapit, Hazel J. Quisumbing, Agnes R. Ahmed, Akhter nutritional status gender women's empowerment agriculture nutrition food security women Using a nationally representative survey from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI). Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, we find that increases in women’s empowerment are positively associated with calorie availability and dietary diversity at the household level. Overall, household wealth, education, and occupation are more important than women’s empowerment as determinants of adult nutritional status, although negative impacts of group membership and credit on male BMI suggest that intrahousehold trade-offs may exist. 2014-09 2024-08-01T02:52:27Z 2024-08-01T02:52:27Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150592 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153642 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133537 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135845 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153498 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153487 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153931 Open Access Elsevier Sraboni, Esha; Malapit, Hazel J.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Ahmed, Akhter U. 2014. Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? World Development 61(September 2014): 11-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.025 |
| spellingShingle | nutritional status gender women's empowerment agriculture nutrition food security women Sraboni, Esha Malapit, Hazel J. Quisumbing, Agnes R. Ahmed, Akhter Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? |
| title | Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? |
| title_full | Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? |
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| title_short | Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? |
| title_sort | women s empowerment in agriculture what role for food security in bangladesh |
| topic | nutritional status gender women's empowerment agriculture nutrition food security women |
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