Search Results - "Agriculture Indexes."

Women’s empowerment projects also need to engage men for a real change: A review of literature by Gartaula, Hom Nath, Atreya, Kishor, Sapkota, Anisha, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Chadha, Deepali, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…This study examined women’s empowerment in agriculture and rural development projects that have used the project-level women’s empowerment in agriculture index (pro-WEAI) framework for impact assessment. …”
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Heterogeneity in male and female farmers’ preference for a profit‐enhancing and labor‐saving technology: The case of Direct‐Seeded Rice (DSR) in India by Joshi, Pramod K., Khan, Mohammed Tajuddin, Kishore, Avinash

“…We used the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to collect self‐reported data on the role and say of women in different domains of decision making. …”
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Women’s empowerment, productivity, and food security: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine, Carrillo, Lucia, Ma, Ning

“…We used the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) indicators, complemented by intrahousehold dynamics in access to extension services and technology awareness and adoption. …”
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Measuring women’s empowerment and gender equality through the lens of induced innovation by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Malapit, Hazel J.

“…The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), launched in 2012, was used to monitor women’s inclusion in agricultural sector growth. …”
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The impacts of rural outmigration on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nepal, Senegal, and Tajikistan by Slavchevska, Vanya, Hillesland, Marya, Mane, Erdgin, Doss, Cheryl

“…The study uses indicators from the Abbreviate Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) to measure women’s empowerment in five domains (decision-making autonomy around agricultural production, resources, control over income, group membership and workload) and instrumental variable approaches to address the endogeneity between the migration of a family member and women’s empowerment. …”
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TH2.3: Smallholder Farmers Willingness to Pay for Crop Insurance Among Women and Men in Kenya by Waweru, Caroline, Kramer, Berber, Aredo, Samson Dejene

“…We therefore elicited incentivized measures of willingness to pay (WTP) for various agricultural insurance bundles offered to smallholder farmers within 7 counties in Kenya and analyze how WTP for the various bundles differs between women and men, and how it correlates with the Project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI). We find that WTP is highest when the insurance product makes payouts in respondents' personal mobile money account, with significantly lower WTP when paid into their spouse's account, or into their savings group (ROSCA)'s account. …”
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Empowering women in agriculture: The role of the WEAI in Bangladesh by Ahmed, Akhter, Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Malapit, Hazel J., Ghostlaw, Julie

“…The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) has emerged as a key tool to achieve this objective. …”
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Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines by Malapit, Hazel J., Ragasa, Catherine, Martinez, Elena M., Rubin, Deborah, Seymour, Greg, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…We adapt the survey-based project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) to measure women's and men's empowerment in the abaca, coconut, seaweed, and swine VCs in the Philippines and to investigate the correlates of empowerment. …”
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Gender dynamics in value chains by Pyburn, Rhiannon, Stoian, Dietmar, Quintero, Sandra

“…In particular, the brief summarizes work from a portfolio of six PIM co-funded projects (2020–2021) on gender dynamics in value chains beyond the production node and single commodity analysis (Box 1), a book chapter in a CGIAR-wide gender publication (Pyburn and van Eerdewijk 2021), the Pro-WEAI (project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index) for Market Inclusion, and other gender-integrated value chain work within PIM (Crimi 2018; Vos and Pyburn 2021), and provides an outlook for future research.…”
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Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines by Malapit, Hazel J., Ragasa, Catherine, Martinez, Elena M., Rubin, Deborah, Seymour, Greg, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…We use the survey-based project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) to measure women’s and men’s empowerment in the abaca, coconut, seaweed, and swine VCs in the Philippines. …”
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Effects of experiential learning on women’s participation in agricultural decision making in India by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., ElDidi, Hagar, Falk, Thomas, Sanil, Richu

“…For example, women’s input in productive decisions is a key indicator in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). Inclusion of women in decision-making can also help ensure that their knowledge and priorities are considered, which can lead to better agricultural outcomes and resource conditions. …”
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Gender and generational dynamics in land restoration amid male outmigration – Evidence from Burkina Faso by Elias, Marlène, Vinceti, Barbara, Traoré, Alain, Traoré, Daouda

“…Questions and response options offer an opportunity to explore jointness in decision-making, labour patterns, and other processes using relevant categories adopted from the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.…”
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Empowerment among women and men in monogamous and polygynous households in Northern Ghana by Larson, Janelle, Martey, Edward, Fischer, Kaitlin, Glenna, Leland, Jensen, Leif

“…A number of studies have linked women’s empowerment (often measured by a version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, WEAI) to various development outcomes, especially related to nutrition and well-being among children. …”
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Does small-scale irrigation provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Lessons from Northern Ghana by Bryan, Elizabeth, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework

“…The paper draws on two rounds of survey data that included the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, before and after the motor pump intervention was implemented. …”
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Uncovering more than a decade of WEAI use in USAID projects by Moore, Lindsey, Dissanayake, Madhu, Malapit, Hazel J., Go, Ara

“…Since its launch in 2012, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) has been widely used in USAID projects to prioritize and target activities that aim to promote women’s empowerment. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya by Dirro, Gracious M., Seymour, Greg, Kassie, Menale, Muricho, Geoffrey, Muriithi, Beatrice Wambui

“…This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Applying a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression method to a data set of 707 maize farm households from western Kenya, we find that women’s empowerment in agriculture significantly increases maize productivity. …”
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Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger by Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie

“…The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) indicates that access to land is one important dimension of empowerment. …”
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What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? by Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Using a new survey-based index, the women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, we conduct individual-level analyses of nutrition-related indicators including exclusive breastfeeding, children's dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity and minimum acceptable diet, children's height-for-age, weight-for-height, and weight-for-age z -scores, and women's dietary diversity score and body mass index. …”
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From bargaining power to empowerment: Measuring the unmeasurable by Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Since 2010, several measures of women’s empowerment have been developed, including the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its variants. A distinct feature of the WEAI, like other counting-based measures, is its decomposability into its component indicators, which makes identifying sources of disempowerment possible. …”
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Strengthening women's empowerment and inclusion in the Living Lab for People (LL4P) in Kenya and Colombia by Ewell, Hanna, Vanegas, Martha, Mwambi, Diana, Omondi, David, Rietveld, Anne

“…Utilizing the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) survey in Kenya and qualitative methods in both countries, this research highlights the critical role of gender-responsive strategies in fostering climate resilience within rural communities. …”
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