Resultados de búsqueda - "Agriculture Indexes."

Measuring time use in developing country agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda por Seymour, Greg, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Using data from Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) surveys in Bangladesh and Uganda, it finds that stylized questions do not always produce shorter interviews compared to time diaries, and recall accuracy may depend on the regularity and saliency of the activity and enumerator abilities. …”
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Evaluation of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 gender and empowerment frameworks and tools por Johnson, Nancy L.

“…Two key outputs of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2) are the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and the Reach, Benefit, Empower (RBE) framework. …”
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A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects por Malapit, Hazel J., Galiè, Alessandra, Njiru, Nelly, Ferguson, Nathaniel, Omondi, Immaculate A., Lecoutere, Els, Muchiri, Caroline

“…This brief synthesizes and presents lessons about women’s empowerment from the achievements of a portfolio of agricultural development projects, where empowerment was consistently measured across the portfolio using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). We address two key research questions: (i) What did the agricultural development projects achieve in terms of women’s empowerment? …”
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Women’s empowerment and the will to change: evidence from Nepal por Buisson, Marie-Charlotte, Clement, Floriane, Leder, S.

“…This article uses a household survey based on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and qualitative data collected in Nepal to analyze how critical consciousness influences women’s will to change the status quo and the role of visible agency, social structures, and individual determinants in those processes. …”
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Presentations for Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) por Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Heckert, Jessica, Seymour, Greg

“…WEMNS is designed to measure empowerment in households with all types of livelihoods, in both urban and rural areas, complementing the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), which focuses on agricultural households. …”
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Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world? A review of recent evidence por Kramer, Berber, Hazell, Peter B. R., Alderman, Harold, Ceballos, Francisco, Kumar, Neha, Timu, Anne G.

“…Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multiperil crop insurance and strengthen agricultural risk management at scale across developing countries. …”
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Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world? por Kramer, Berber, Hazell, Peter B. R., Alderman, Harold, Ceballos, Francisco, Kumar, Neha, Timu, Anne G.

“…Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multi-peril crop insurance, and contribute to strengthen agricultural risk management at scale across developing countries. …”
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Gender and food security in Honduras por Allen, Summer L., Delgado, Luciana

“…According to the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) only 34% of women sampled are considered empowered. …”
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MoreMilk project - Baseline and Endline Vendor survey and ProWEAI survey por Alonso, Silvia, Leroy, Jef L., Grace, Delia, Angel, Moira Donahue, Giordano, Palloni, Kilonzi, Emily

“…Data from 225 dairy vendors in the informal sector in Eldoret (Kenya) was collected between 19 October 2022 and 9 December 2022 for endline.The datasets contains information about the dairy business characteristics, milk handling practices, business-related information and for the baseline only, Project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI). The observations belong to two different treatment arm, one for vendors who were enrolled in the MoreMilk training program and the other group of control vendors (who didn't participate in the program).…”
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Estimating the intrahousehold costs and benefits of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience por Kramer, Berber, Timu, Anne G., Damba, Osman

“…We develop a set of individual bargaining weights based on the women’s empowerment in agriculture index, to demonstrate how benefits from CIS are distributed among men and women within households. …”
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Women’s empowerment and farmland allocations in Bangladesh: Evidence of a possible pathway to crop diversification por De Pinto, Alessandro, Seymour, Greg, Bryan, Elizabeth, Bhandari, Prapti

“…This paper explores whether women’s empowerment, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), leads to increased diversification in the use of farmland. …”
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Exploring women’s empowerment using a mixed methods approach por Doss, Cheryl, Rubin, Deborah

“…It draws on three bodies of research around empowerment, growing interest in qualitative methods, and measurement research, especially the conceptualization and adaptations of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Employing mixed methods over more than a decade of cooperation among researchers from the Global South and the Global North has challenged the methods and findings of each approach. …”
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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture (WEAI) Pilot II for Uganda por International Food Policy Research Institute, Associates Research Uganda Limited

“…The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a composite measurement tool that indicates women’s control over critical parts of their lives in the household, community, and economy. …”
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Measuring time use in development settings por Seymour, Greg, Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…The paper identifies a significant lack of rigorous empirical research comparing these methods in development settings, and begins to fill this gap by analyzing data from Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index surveys in Bangladesh and Uganda. The surveys include stylized questions and time diary estimates for the same individual. …”
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A systematic review of agricultural projects’ contributions to women’s empowerment por Gartaula, Hom Nath, Atreya, Kishor, Sapkota, Anisha, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Chadha, Deepali, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…This study systematically reviews the application of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in impact evaluations. Using Harzing’s “Publish or Perish” software, 626 articles published between 2012 and 2024 were initially retrieved, which were narrowed down to eight for detailed review, using the PRISMA framework. …”
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The potential and limits of farmers’ groups as catalysts of women leaders por Nakazi, Florence, Aseete, Paul, Katungi, Enid M., Ugen, Michael Adrogu

“…The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index revealed weak leadership and influence of women in the community as indicators of women’s political disempowerment. …”
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How women’s empowerment affects farm production and dietary quality in East Africa por Chege, Christine Gacheri Kiria, Onyango, Kevin, Muange, Elijah N., Jäger, Matthias

“…Women’s empowerment is measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). We find that control over use of income, autonomy in production and inadequate leisure time, are the major WEAI indicators contributing to women’s disempowerment. …”
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Feminization of African agriculture and the meaning of decision-making for empowerment and sustainability por Haug, R., Mwaseba, D. L., Njarui, Donald M.G., Moeletsi, M., Magalasi, M., Mutimura, Mupenzi, Hundessa, F., Aamodt, Julie T

“…The five domains of empowerment outlined in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index are used to structure the analysis. The results indicate that in the selected sites in Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa, women farmers tend to dominate agricultural decision-making, while the result is more mixed in the Kenyan sites, and decision-making tends to be dominated by men in the sites in Tanzania and Ethiopia. …”
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Project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Results from cognitive testing in Myanmar por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Sproule, Kathryn, Synt, Nang Lun Kham, Ei Win, Hnin, Win, Khin Zin

“…This paper reports on the lessons learned from two rounds of pretesting and cognitive testing of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in a total of five States/Regions in Myanmar. …”
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Tracking empowerment along the value chain: Testing a modified WEAI in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence in Bangladesh por Ahmed, Akhter, Malapit, Hazel J., Pereira, Audrey, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Rubin, Deborah, Ghostlaw, Julie, Haque, Md. Latiful, Hossain, Nusrat Zaitun, Tauseef, Salauddin

“…Specifically, IFPRI’s Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP), funded by USAID, piloted the modified Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) survey instruments in 10 upazilas (sub-districts) within the FTF ZOI across 1,200 households, which broadly belong to three economic activities of interest: (1) agricultural production, (2) agricultural entrepreneurship, and (3) agricultural sector employment. …”
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