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Potential of climate-smart agriculture in reducing women farmers’ drudgery in high climatic risk areas por Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Regmi, Punya Prasad, Chanana, Nitya, Aggarwal, Pramod K.

“…The study is illustrated for Nepal where feminization of agriculture is rapidly increasing, a high level of climatic risks persists, and adaptive capacity to climate change is very low, especially among women in agriculture. …”
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TH2.1: Understanding femininities: Implications for women's Participation in Agricultural interventions in central Uganda por Shimali, Fred, Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo, Mwiine, A.A., Businge, M., Nakyewa, B., Nanyonjo, G., Angudubo, S., Sanya, L.N., Asiimwe, E.

“…This paper presents research on how female and male farmers in rural communities of central Uganda define what it means to be a woman and how those identity constructions influence women's economic empowerment. This qualitative case study is based on focus group discussions conducted with Sasakawa Africa Association intervention farmers (28 women and 25 men) of Kiboga District. …”
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Seed credit model in Uganda: Participation and empowerment dynamics among smallholder women and men farmers por Nanyonjo, Grace, Nchanji, Eileen

“…Seed is life and can be a source of empowerment and disempowerment for women and men farmers. In this study, to close the gender gaps in seed, the Community Enterprises Development Organization, the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT and the National Agricultural Research Organization developed a seed credit model available to men and women belonging to farmer groups. …”
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Elevated iron stores are associated with HIV disease severity and mortality among postpartum women in Zimbabwe por Rawat, Rahul, Humphrey, J. H., Ntozini, R., Mutasa, K., Iliff, P. J., Stoltzfus, Rebecca J.

“…There is limited and conflicting data available from Africa.Cross-sectional and prospective cohort study.We examined the association between postpartum Fe status (Hb, serum ferritin (SF) and transferrin receptor (TfR)) and viral load (VL) and HIV-related mortality in 643 HIV-positive Zimbabwean women over a period of 12 months.In non-anaemic women a log10increase in SF was associated with a 2·3-fold increase in VL (P= 0·019); this association was absent in anaemic women. …”
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Women’s empowerment, household dietary diversity, and child anthropometry among vulnerable populations in Odisha, India por Ogutu, Sylvester, Mockshell, Jonathan, Garrett, James, Ritter, Thea, Labarta, Ricardo, Alvarez, Diego, Nedumaran, Swamikannu, Gonzalez, Carolina, Gotor, Elisabetta

“…However, the relationship between women’s empowerment and dietary diversity and child nutrition has rarely been studied among vulnerable populations or individuals at greater risk of poor physical and social health status. …”
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Can farmer collectives empower women and improve their welfare? Mixed methods evidence from India por Ray, Soumyajit, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Bhanjdeo, Arundhita, Heckert, Jessica

“…Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)—farmer collectives, often legally registered - can mitigate some of the constraints smallholder farmers face by improving their access to extension, services, and markets, especially for women. We evaluate the effects of a set of interventions delivered through women-only FPOs in Jharkhand, India, using a panel of 1200 households and a difference-in-difference model with nearest neighbor matching. …”
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Conflict, aspirations, and women’s empowerment: Household survey evidence from farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria por Amare, Mulubrhan, Carrillo, Lucia, Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan

“…Using original survey data from three states in rural, southwestern Nigeria, this study examines the relationship between conflict intensity at various distances and the empowerment and aspiration levels of women whose households are primarily engaged in farming. …”
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Situation of the inclusion of women and young people in agricultural and rural areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) por Yeo, P.A., Arouna, A., Yergo, W., Mushiya, J., Lufuluabo, M.M., Mujawamariya, G.

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Women’s empowerment, extended families and male migration in Nepal: Insights from mixed methods analysis por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Pereira, Audrey, Pradhan, Rajendra, Doss, Cheryl R.

“…The study first examines the factors affecting overall empowerment as measured by the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI), followed by more detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis of how each factor affects individual domains including asset ownership, access to and decisions on credit, control over use of income, group membership, input in productive decisions, and work load. …”
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Women at the forefront: raising awareness of climate-resilient varieties to transform the informal seed trade in Tanzania por Mwakatwila, Atupokile, Ochieng, Justus, Cheyo, Esther, Kimisha, Joseph, Mchau, Devotha, Ndunguru, Agness, Kadege, Edith, Bujiku, Anthony, Kabyemela, Anatolius, Mbapila, Shadrack, Mbiu, Julius, Radegunda, Kessy, Rubyogo, Jean Claude

“…Quantitative data were collected from 657 marketplace traders (372 women and 285 men), and qualitative data were collected from 180 marketplace traders across rural and urban markets, with women comprising 58% of them. …”
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Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda por Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…Results for the role-model effects are mixed, and are evident more in joint household outcomes than individual women’s outcomes. Overall, our findings suggest that in the context of our study, extension efforts aimed at directly addressing intra-household information asymmetries may be a first-best means of empowering women in agriculture. …”
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A&T Burkina Faso Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Households - Recently Delivered Women por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The recently delivered women interviews were conducted using pretested, structured questionnaires. …”
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More institutions in Cauca adopt climate-smart village tools for policy implementation por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Materias: “…women…”
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CCAFS GSI-sponsored gender research informs Kenya Dairy NAMA to increase on-farm dairy productivity through private sector investment in gender-inclusive extension por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Materias: “…women…”
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Gender equality and social inclusion in a just energy transition por Buchy, Marlene, Shakya, Shristi

Materias: “…women's participation…”
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Assessing the application of gender perspectives in land restoration studies in Ethiopia using text mining por Abera, Wuletawu, Tamene, Lulseged D., Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Elias, Marlène, Joshi, Deepa, Aynekulu, Ermias

“…Yet one issue that is rarely considered is how the outcomes of restoration initiatives affect different social groups, specifically women, men, and the marginalized. Our study aims to understand the extent of gender and social inclusion in land restoration studies in Ethiopia. …”
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Gender preferences for multiple attributes of soil and water conservation in Northern Rwanda por Musafili, Ildephonse, Ayuya, Oscar Ingasia, Birachi, Eliud Abucheli

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Experimental measures of intra-household resource control por Ambler, Kate, Jones, Kelly M., Recalde, María P.

“…We implement two incentivized tasks: (1) a game that measures willingness to pay for resource control in the household, and (2) dictator games played privately and jointly by spouses. Across study sites we find that women exhibit a higher willingness to pay for resource control than their husbands and have less influence over joint dictator game decisions. …”
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A nutrition behaviour change intervention delivered through women's self-help groups in India is protective against depression and reduces time spent in market work por Gupta, Shivani, Scott, Samuel P., Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Thai, Giang, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Menon, Purnima

“…Little is known about how such group-based interventions affect women's mental health and time use. Methods: The Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS) study was a quasi-experimental impact evaluation, comparing 16 blocks (8 matched pairs) with SHG formation support; 8 blocks received a 3-year nutrition intervention (NI) with BCC topics such as nutrition, home-gardens and women's well-being, facilitated by a trained female volunteer; the other 8 received standard activities (STD) to support savings & livelihoods. …”
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Defining a dichotomous indicator for population-level assessment of dietary diversity among pregnant adolescent girls and women: A secondary analysis of quantitative 24-h recalls f... por Verger, Eric O., Eymard-Duvernay, Sabrina, Bahya-Batinda, Dang, Hanley-Cook, Giles T., Argaw, Alemayehu, Becquey, Elodie, Diop, Loty, Gelli, Aulo, Harris-Fry, Helen, Kachwaha, Shivani, Kim, Sunny S., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Saville, Naomi M., Tran, Lan Mai, Zagré, Rock Romaric, Landais, Edwige, Savy, Mathilde, Martin-Prevel, Yves, Lachat, Carl

“…Objective This study aimed to validate a minimum food group consumption threshold, out of the 10 food groups used to construct MDD-W, to be used as a population-level indicator of higher micronutrient adequacy among pregnant women aged 15–49 y in LMICs. …”
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