Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

We assess whether a gender- and nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, fielded in rural Bangladesh, aimed at improving food production diversity enhanced resilience and whether impacts persisted post-intervention. Four years post-program, treatment arms that included both agriculture and nu...

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Main Authors: Hoddinott, John F., Ahmed, Akhter, Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177816
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Ahmed, Akhter
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Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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description We assess whether a gender- and nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, fielded in rural Bangladesh, aimed at improving food production diversity enhanced resilience and whether impacts persisted post-intervention. Four years post-program, treatment arms that included both agriculture and nutrition training reduced the likelihood that households undertook more severe forms of coping strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic. There were persistent improvements in household consumption and diet quality; impacts were largest for poor but not the poorest households in our sample. Underlying these results were the long-term beneficial impacts on women’s agricultural knowledge, agency, and increased engagement in agricultural activities.
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spelling CGSpace1778162025-12-02T21:03:24Z Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh Hoddinott, John F. Ahmed, Akhter Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab Quisumbing, Agnes R. resilience shocks gender nutrition We assess whether a gender- and nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, fielded in rural Bangladesh, aimed at improving food production diversity enhanced resilience and whether impacts persisted post-intervention. Four years post-program, treatment arms that included both agriculture and nutrition training reduced the likelihood that households undertook more severe forms of coping strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic. There were persistent improvements in household consumption and diet quality; impacts were largest for poor but not the poorest households in our sample. Underlying these results were the long-term beneficial impacts on women’s agricultural knowledge, agency, and increased engagement in agricultural activities. 2025-11-10 2025-11-11T18:14:00Z 2025-11-11T18:14:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177816 en https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12427 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100107 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105622 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hoddinott, John F.; Ahmed, Akhter; Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; and Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2025. Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2375. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177816
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gender
nutrition
Hoddinott, John F.
Ahmed, Akhter
Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
title Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
title_full Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
title_fullStr Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
title_short Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
title_sort gender nutrition sensitive agricultural interventions and resilience evidence from rural bangladesh
topic resilience
shocks
gender
nutrition
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177816
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