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Gender norms and women’s empowerment: The case of pig-related businesses in Uganda by Achandi, Esther Leah, Galiè, Alessandra, Ouma, Emily A., Omondi, Immaculate A., Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Lukuyu, Ben A.

“…This study explores gender norms, women’s empowerment and the interlinkage between the two in pig-related businesses. …”
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Women’s empowerment in Tanzania Cashew Value Chain: Assessment of Opportunities and Constraints by Aku, Aika, Mather, David, Bryan, Elizabeth, Mpenda, Zena, Mpunde, Venance

“…The study uses mixed methods including in-depth interviews with women processors and local experts, and a quantitative survey of the costs and benefits of small processing facilities. …”
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Impacts of intensive dairy production on smallholder farm women in coastal Kenya by Mullins, G., Wahome, L., Tsangari, P., Maarse, L.

“…On three-quarters of the male contact farms, dairy operators were women. Across all farms, women performed half of all dairy-related activities, but only on female contact farms did income from the dairy enterprise accrue to women in proportion to their labor input. …”
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Qualitative research on women’s empowerment and participation in agricultural value chains in Bangladesh by Rubin, Deborah, Ferdousi, Shammi, Parvin, Aklima, Rahaman, S.M. Tahsin, Rahman, Shuchita, Rahman, Waziha, Redoy, Md.

“…The qualitative research study, conducted by IFPRI field officers, complements a 1,200 household quantitative survey, looking in greater depth at the individual, household, and community level experiences of men and women to understand the consequences of value chain participation on them as producers, entrepreneurs, and wage workers on women’s empowerment. …”
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Women’s resilience capacity and dietary diversity of small livestock farmers in India by Gartaula, Hom Nath, Atreya, Kishor, Sapkota, Anisha, Chadha, Deepali, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…The study examines how women’s resilience capacities and their nutrition outcomes are associated among the small livestock farmers in rural West Bengal, India: • To investigate the relationship between resilience capacity and dietary diversity. • To determine the key factors influencing resilience capacity and dietary diversity.…”
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Influence of women’s empowerment on maternal and child dietary diversity in urban Bangladesh by Hoque, M. Nazmul

“…Hence, this study has been conducted on the status of maternal and child nutrition, understanding how it relates to various dimensions of women’s empowerment in urban settings. …”
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Gender and irrigation in India: the Women's Irrigation Group of Jambar, South Gujarat by van Koppen, Barbara, Nagar, R.K., Vasavada, S.

“…The study evaluates the approach taken by the implementing NGO, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, in terms of its replicability in other areas where women share in farm activities and decision making.…”
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Adoption of yam minisett technology by women farmers in Abia State, Nigeria by Ironkwe, A., Asiedu, Robert, Unamma, R.P.

“…The study was designed to determine the adoption of yam minisett technology by omen farmers in Abia state in 2004. …”
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Helpers, employees or owners: Opportunities for women’s empowerment in agricultural value chains by Moreno Bustamante, Manuel Francisco, Twyman, Jennifer, Claros Trujillo, Luisa María, Suazo, Carlos, Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca

“…Currently there is little evidence on differentiated gender roles and empowerment in value chains in the Latin America region and few comparative analyses on value chains and between value chain nodes. In this study, we examine different indicators of women’s empowerment among the production and processing nodes of two agricultural value chains—cashew and dairy—in Honduras to understand whether and how women’s roles in the value chains are related to their empowerment. …”
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Assessment and remedies for reducing the drudgeries of women farmers in postharvest operations of millets by Chapke, Rajendra R., Spanditha, Muppidi, Burakasri, Kanthisri, Satyavathi, C. Tara

“…The purpose of the study was to assess the extent of drudgery for women farmers on different parameters, and the impact of the adoption of improved post-harvest technologies over traditional practices. …”
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Facilitating women’s access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda by Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. …”
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The role of photovoice and cellphilms to support women farmers’ climate-resilience strategies by Kawerau, Laura, Welk, Lukas, Birkenberg, Athena, Daum, Thomas, Butele, Cosmas Alfred, Birner, Regina

“…This note summarizes findings from a qualitative field study on the use of ICT tools for the collection of information on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices by women and men farmers in the central region of Uganda. …”
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Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) by Malapit, Hazel J., Quisumbing, Agnes R., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Seymour, Greg, Martinez, Elena M., Heckert, Jessica, Rubin, Deborah, Vaz, Ana, Yount, Kathryn M., Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2) Study Team, Myers, Emily, Pereira, Audrey, Hannan, Anika, James-Hawkins, Laurie, Kim, Sunny S., Roy, Shalini, Elias, Marlène, Mulema, Annet, Cheong, Yuk Fai, Doss, Cheryl, Maxwell, Lauren, Ahmed, Akhter, Masuma Younus, de Brauw, Alan, Dey, Amita, Kramer, Berber, Crookston, Benjamin, Gash, Megan, Gray, Bobbi, Schreinemachers, Pepijn, Sobgui, Caroline, Janzen, Sarah, Joshi, Neena, Magnan, Nicholas, Pradhan, Rajendra, Sharma, Sudhindra, Theis, Sophie, Bellemare, Marc, Casier, Bart, James, Susan, Krause, Brooke, Lardinois, Mathias, McCarthy, Aine, Gabrysch, Sabine, Sinharoy, Sheela, Waid, Jillian, Wendt, Amanda, Gelli, Aulo, Hidrobo, Melissa, Zougouri, Sita, Alonso, Silvia, Galiè, Alessandra, Kakota, Tasokwa, Leroy, Jef L., Palloni, Giordano, Bryan, Elizabeth, Kiger, Brian, Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Miah, Mamun, Siraj, Saiqa, Alemu, Mihret, Boonabaana, Brenda, Kaaria, Susan, Vanya Slavchevska, Erdgin Mane, Choudhury, Avijit, Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani

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Thousands of plant breeders: women conserving in situ crop genetic resources by Bradburn, Christopher

“…This study focuses on in situ conservation of landrace crop varieties in the Medak district of the southern Indian state, Telangana. …”
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Helpers, employees or owners: Opportunities for women's empowerment in agricultural value chains by Moreno, Manuel, Twyman, Jennifer, Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Muriel, Juliana, Chavarro, Mónica Juliana, Suazo, Carlos, Castro, Judith

“…The main objective of this study is to explore women's empowerment in cashew and dairy value chains (of the Gulf of Fonseca in Honduras) in order to identify opportunities and barriers that women face to be involved as employees, owners, and/or managers in the production and processing nodes. …”
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Impact of GEM parboiling technique on women’s income and food security in Mali by Suh, Neville, Diallo, Aboubacar, Dossou-Yovo, E.R

“…The AICCRA Mali project focuses on building the capacity of both women and men to accelerate the adoption of climate adaptation strategies. …”
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Role of men in a women’s empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda by Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., O'Sullivan, Michael

“…Women’s empowerment is a significant element of economic development (Duflo 2012). …”
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How conflict shapes women's roles and aspirations: Insights from Nigeria by Carrillo, Lucia, Amare, Mulubrhan, Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan

“…Our recent study in Nigeria—supported by the CGIAR research initiatives on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration and on Gender Equality (HER+)—focused on how these farmer-herder conflicts and the changes they bring shape women’s economic and social aspirations. …”
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Food security and women’s well-being: Insights from rural Nepal by Alvi, Muzna, Barooah, Prapti

“…Our sample comprises of nearly 690 respondents, of which 70% are women. The area where our survey is conducted, borders India and thus sees large out-migration of men, leaving women as de-facto heads of households.…”
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NEEDS AND DETERMINANTS OF ACCESS TO CLIMATE INFORMATION SERVICES BY WOMEN PRODUCERS IN SENEGAL by Diouf Seynabou, Ouédraogo, Issa, Zougmoré, Robert B., Ouédraogo, Mathieu

“…In order to improve farmers’ capacity to cope with recurrent climate variability through the use of climate information, a study was conducted in 10 Regions of Senegal. The specific objectives were to: i) understand and identify farming adaptation practices used by men and women, ii) determine the climate information needs from women, and iii) identify the factors that can influence women's access to climate information.…”
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