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Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Smallholder Adaptation: Lessons from IFAD’s Adaptation in Smallholder Agriculture Programme by Sriram, Vidhya

“…The assessment and learning review provides lessons learned after three years of ASAP operation. The purpose of this study was to understand how the translation from design to implementation is happening in practice, and to generate insights and lessons from some of the ASAP-supported projects on the different barriers, opportunities, and experiences regarding gendermainstreaming and women’s empowerment.…”
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Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana by Omondi, Immaculate A., Galiè, Alessandra, Teufel, Nils, Loriba, Agnes, Kariuki, Eunice, Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…Healthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women’s empowerment (WE) in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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TH3.1: Analysis of Dietary Diversity and Determinants of Fish Consumption among Women, Children and Households in Bangladesh by Njogu, Lucy

“…The study employs a Household Dietary Diversity (HDD), Individual Dietary Diversity – Women (IDD-W) and Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) to analyze the diversity of diets in general households, among women and children, respectively. …”
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Behavioral games for triggering adoption of good agricultural practices: insights from women’s empowerment project in Telangana, India by Waris, Amtul

“…In a creative endeavor for gender-transformative change in agri-food systems, a study was designed to use a behavioral game to trigger the adoption of good agricultural practices (GAPs) in a women’s empowerment project in Telangana, India. …”
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FR1.2: Women's Empowerment and Livestock Vaccination: evidence from PPR vaccination interventions in northern Ghana by Omondi, Immaculate A., Galiè, Alessandra, Teufel, Nils, Loriba, Agnes, Kariuki, Eunice, Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…Healthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Economic empowerment of tribal women farmers through gender-inclusive mechanized seeding based technology in Odisha, India by Mohapatra, Bidhan Kumar, Iftikar, Wasim

“…This study is evidence of action research with eight women tribal smallholder farmers of the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India and its impact on enhancement of crop productivity and profitability through technology and varietal adoption, and crop diversification. …”
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Evaluation of new hybrid and farmer genotypes on processor productivity, workload and related drudgery: Focus on women cassava processors by Abolore, Bello, Nwanze-Olaosebikan, Olamide, Okoye, Benjamin, Madu, Tessy, Bouniol, Alexandre, Dufour, Dominique, Adinsi, Laurent, Ismail, Rabbi, Teeken, Béla

“…Processing enhances shelf life of bulky and perishable roots, tubers and bananas. This study highlights, for the first time, the impact of genotypes on labor requirements, productivity, and the associated drudgery in processing operations primarily carried out by women processors. …”
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From waste to managed waste facility and compost for farming: The role of women movement in urban villages in Bali, Indonesia by Utomo, Marcellinus Mandira Budi, Pieter, Levina Augusta Geraldine, Kusumawati, Dewi, Putra, Hermitianta P.

“…With so many TPS3R failing halfway, the study of the success factors of TPS3R in Pejeng is important, so that its findings can be a recommendation for possible factors so that TPS3R is successful in other villages. …”
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Sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability of orange-fleshed sweetpotato by pregnant women and children < 2 years in western Kenya. by Oyunga-Ogubi, M.A., Loechl, C., Quedraogo, H., Low, Jan W.

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate how two new high â-carotene sweetpotato varieties, Vita and Kabode were assessed against local checks by pregnant women (n=79) and how young children (72) under 2 years of age liked them in Bungoma and Busia districts of Kenya. …”
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Women’s involvement in intra‐household decision‐making and infant and young child feeding practices in central Asia, No. 2 by Abdurazzakova, Dilnovoz, Kosec, Katrina, Parpiev, Ziyodullo

“…In contrast, child gender and household poverty do not emerge as important moderators of the relationship between women’s empowerment and feeding practices. We thus provide evidence from Central Asia, a substantially under-studied region, that policies and programs expanding women’s decision-making power can improve child nutrition—especially when directed at extended households in which mothers cohabitate with in-laws. …”
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MorePork - Study: Food Demand and Nutrition Cross-Sectional Survey by Ouma, Emily, Pezo, Danilo, Dione, Michel, Lukuyu, Ben, Marshall, Karen, Lule, Peter, Asiimwe, Grace, Opio, Felix, Kawuma, Brian, Kariuki, Eunice

“…MorePork: More pork by and for the poor: Catalyzing emerging smallholder pig value chains in Uganda for food security and poverty reduction The project seeks to test and pilot best bet options to improve on-farm productivity, household nutrition and pork safety in the marketing chain, so that benefits are enhanced for poor men and women farmers and their organisations, market actors and consumers, while minimizing negative environmental impacts., The objective of this study is to assess households' food demand and nutritional security with consideration for intra-household resource and food allocation. …”
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Sensory evaluation of upland rice varieties with farmers: A case study by Singh, R.K., Prasad, Kameshwari, Mandal, Nimai Prasas, Singh, Rama Kant, Courtois, Brigitte, Singh, Virendra Pal, Paris, T.R.

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Study of gender equality in community based forest certification programmes in Nepal by Lewark, S., George, L., Karmann, M.

“…Gender equality has been studied in community based forest certification projects in two forest user groups in Nepal. contributing to an understanding of gender equality with a focus on participation of women in a forest certification project and on awareness levels of forest users. …”
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A&T India Maternal Nutrition Nested Cohort Study 2019: Postnatal by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of the household/pregnant women (PW)/recently delivered women (RDW) survey that was conducted to gather data for the nested cohort part of the impact evaluation study of the Alive & Thrive (A&T) interventions delivered through the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health (RMNCH) services in India. …”
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How does women’s time in reproductive work and agriculture affect maternal and child nutrition? Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Nepal by Komatsu, Hitomi, Theis, Sophie, Malapit, Hazel J.

“…Working long hours in agriculture reduces women’s dietary diversity score in Ghana and nonpoor women’s in Mozambique. …”
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A&T India Maternal Nutrition Nested Cohort Study 2019: Recruitment by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This dataset is the result of the household/pregnant women (PW) survey that was conducted to gather data for the nested cohort part of the impact evaluation study of the Alive & Thrive (A&T) interventions delivered through the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health (RMNCH) services in India. …”
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Impact of agricultural programs on youth engagement in agribusiness: a case study by Adeyanju, D.F., Mburu, J., Mignouna, Djana B.

“…Using the case of Fadama Graduate Unemployed Youth and Women Support (FGUYS) program, this study assessed the impact of agricultural programs on youth engagement in agribusiness in Nigeria. …”
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Food and agriculture systems foresight study: Implications for gender, poverty, and nutrition by Lentz, Erin C.

“…This review evaluates foresight studies to understand how the future agri-food system may impact gender, poverty, and nutrition (GPN). …”
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Digital Innovation Initiative: Outcome Case Study Report (2022-2024) by Gardeazabal Monsalve, Andrea, Jumbe, Ellestina

“…Findings demonstrate substantial impacts, such as empowering women and youth through gender-inclusive digital services, improving digital literacy, and enabling equitable resource management in climate vulnerable regions through advanced tools. …”
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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Yabello – Borana, Ethiopia by Onyango, Leah, Mango, Joash, Desta, S., Tezera S, Kurui, Zena, Wamubeyi, B., Mohammed A, Fatuma A

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