Search Results - "Agriculture Indexes."

WEAI-Climate Stakeholder Consultation Workshop by Bryan, Elizabeth, Magalhaes, Marilia, Go, Ara, Malapit, Hazel J.

“…This new tool will complement the existing project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and will be developed and piloted in collaboration with IFPRI’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) over the next two years.…”
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Intrahousehold empowerment gaps in agriculture and children's well-being in Bangladesh by Malapit, Hazel J., Sraboni, Esha, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…We measure relative empowerment of spouses using the recently developed Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index. We find that while gender gaps in empowerment are only linked weakly to children's nutritional status, fathers’ and mothers’ empowerment have different effects on investment in children. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? by Sraboni, Esha, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women’s empowerment in agriculture and instrumental variables techniques to correct for the potential endogeneity of empowerment. …”
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Gender imbalances limit water and energy management in Uzbekistan by Alvi, Muzna, Sufian, Farha

“…It also included the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI) and questions on women’s decision-making over energy choices. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh? by Sraboni, Esha, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Ahmed, Akhter

“…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). …”
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Women's empowerment in traditional food value chains at the micro-level: evidence from cassava smallholder farming in Tanzania by Masamha, Blessing, Uzokwe, Veronica N.E., Thebe, V.

“…We examined women’s empowerment within the cassava value chain according to the five domains of empowerment of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, using data from 228 respondents in Tanzania. …”
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The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in India by Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Arrieta, Alejandra, Jilani, Amir Hamza, Pandey, Shinjini

“…This paper uses panel data from 1470 rural Indian women from five states to study the impact of SHG membership on women’s empowerment in agriculture, using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and the abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI). …”
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Measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture: Innovations and evidence by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Cole, Steven M., Elias, Marlène, Faas, Simone, Galiè, Alessandra, Malapit, Hazel J., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Myers, Emily, Seymour, Greg, Twyman, Jennifer

“…Using a gender and food systems framework and a standardized measure of women's empowerment, the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), we review the evidence on “what works” to empower women based on impact evaluations of a portfolio of 11 agricultural development projects with empowerment objectives and a scoping review of livestock interventions. …”
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Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso by Leight, Jessica, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Ganaba, Rasmané, Gelli, Aulo

“…Methods: We analyze the association between empowerment measured using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and two additional outcomes of interest: stress (measured using the SRQ-20) and maternal depression (measured using the Edinburgh scale for post-partum depression). …”
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Assessment of Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence in Tajikistan by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These individual-level modules were to be conducted in private unless infeasible and contain key modules of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI).…”
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Annual report 2018: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index results influenced many strategies and programs.…”
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What are you talking about? Applying cognitive interviewing to improve survey questions on women’s economic empowerment for market inclusion by Myers, Emily, Heckert, Jessica, Salazar, Elizabeth, Kalagho, Kenan, Salamba, Flora, Mzungu, Diston, Mswero, Grace, Adegbola, Patrice Ygué, Crinot, Geraud Fabrice, Kouton-Bognon, Baudelaire, Pereira, Audrey, Rubin, Deborah, Malapit, Hazel J., Seymour, Greg

“…This study identifies cognitive errors in survey modules included in the project level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) in Benin and Malawi. …”
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Pro-WEAI for market inclusion by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for market inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) includes the core pro-WEAI module plus new complementary indicators to investigate barriers to market access and inclusion for different value chain actors. …”
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Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2018-2019 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…BIHS is the only nationally representative survey in Bangladesh that collects detailed data on (1) plot-level agricultural production and practices, (2) dietary intake of individual household members, (3) anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of all household members, and (4) data to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI). A community survey supplements the BIHS data to provide information on area-specific contextual factors. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Rubin, Deborah, Elias, Marlène, Mulema, Annet A., Myer, Emily

“…This paper synthesizes qualitative research conducted conjointly with quantitative surveys, working with eight agricultural development projects in eight countries, to develop a project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). The qualitative research sought to identify emic meanings of “empowerment,” validate the domains and indicators of the quantitative index, provide greater understanding of the context of each project and of strategies for facilitating empowerment, and test a methodology for integrating emic perspectives of empowerment with standardized etic measures that allow for comparability across contexts.…”
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CIAT Research Program Syntheses: Acronyms and Abbreviations by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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Women’s empowerment in rural Ethiopia by Mulema, Annet A., Nigussie, L.

“…The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is the first standardized tool to measure empowerment in the agricultural sector. …”
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Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2015 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Bangladesh that collects detailed data on (1) plot-level agricultural production and practices, (2) dietary intake of individual household members, (3) anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of all household members, and (4) data to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI). A community survey supplements the BIHS data to provide information on area-specific contextual factors. …”
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WEAI: Making development programs inclusive by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In 2010, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) approached IFPRI and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative to develop the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). It was developed to monitor and support the inclusion of women in agriculture as part of the Feed the Future Initiative—the U.S. …”
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Women's empowerment in agriculture: Implications for technical efficiency in rural Bangladesh by Seymour, Gregory

“…Using plot‐level data from the 2011–2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey and drawing on indicators derived from the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, I estimate a stochastic frontier production function model, which includes women's empowerment in agriculture as an exogenous determinant of technical inefficiency. …”
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