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Spiraling up and down: Mapping women’s empowerment through agricultural interventions using the community capitals framework in rural Ethiopia by Mulema, Annet A., Boonabaana, Brenda, Debevec, Liza, Nigussie, L., Alemu, M., Kaaria, S.

“…The paper draws on the Community Capitals Framework to frame and analyze the process of rural women’s empowerment through agricultural interventions in two districts of Ethiopia. …”
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History Has Its Eyes on You : a story about the identity of young Sami women, following the Girjas case by Nordlund, Izabel

“…This study aims to understand some of the complexities of the Sami identity amongst young Sami women in Norrbotten County, Sweden. …”

The role of interactive radio programming in advancing women’s empowerment and crop and dietary diversity: Mixed methods evidence from Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine, Mzungu, Diston, Kalagho, Kenan, Kazembe, Cynthia

“…The study assesses the effect of interactive radio programming on women’s empowerment and agricultural development, employing nationally representative household panel data and qualitative interviews in Malawi. …”
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Double burden or Newfound freedom? Women’s empowerment amid large-scale male labor migration from rural Tajikistan by Lambrecht, Isabel B., Mardonova Tolibkhonovna, Mohru, Pechtl, Sarah, Teirlinck, Charlotte

“…Relying on primary qualitative data as well as quantitative data from 938 married women, we analyze empowerment impacts of migration on women in rural southern Tajikistan. …”
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Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project by Kisambu, N., Flintan, Fiona E., Daley, E., Pallas, S.

“…A study carried out in four villages in Tanzania, supported by the International Land Coalition, sought to understand the challenges and opportunities facing pastoral women with respect to accessing land and resources, in the context of village land use planning. …”
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Nutrient adequacy is low among both self-declared lacto-vegetarian and non-vegetarian pregnant women in Uttar Pradesh by Bellows, Alexandra L., Kachwaha, Shivani, Ghosh, Sebanti, Kappos, Kristen, Escobar-Alegria, Jessica, Menon, Purnima, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

“…Poor dietary intake during pregnancy remains a significant public health concern, affecting the health of the mother and fetus. This study examines the adequacy of energy, macronutrient, and micronutrient intakes among self-declared lacto-vegetarian and non-vegetarian pregnant women. …”
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FR2.1: An Exploration of Gender norms and Women's Empowerment: The Case of Dairy Related Businesses in Kilimanjaro and Tanga, Tanzania by Achandi, Esther L., Galiè, Alessandra, Omore, Amos O., Jeremiah, Adolf

“…Gender norms particularly affect their participation and access to benefits from livestock value chains. This study uses a qualitative methodology to explore gender norms that affect women's engagement in dairy-related businesses and the local context conceptualization of empowerment. …”
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Key factors in the use of Agricultural Extension Services by women farmers in Babati District, Tanzania : the role of societal gender norms by McCormack, Caitlin

“…The constraints women farmers face comprise a range of practical, institutional and norm-based factors. …”

Using the G+ tools to validate gender equitable breeding decisions for new cassava varieties targeted at men and women in Nigeria by Nwanze-Olaosebikan, Olamide, Teeken, Béla, Balogun, Ireti, Madu, Tessy, Okoye, Benjamin, Abolore, Bello, Polar, Vivian, Ashby, Jacqueline A., Cole, Steven M., Kulakow, Peter A., Parkes, Elizabeth Y.

“…This study used the G+ tools to investigate: (a) relevant gender and social diversity among cassava users related to granulated and paste food products value chains (VC), and (b) prioritized quality traits (PQTs) that should be incorporated into breeding new cassava to achieve equitable benefits for men and women cassava VC actors in Nigeria. …”
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Know your men and women farmers: Ensuring host farmers in participatory trials represent heterogeneity within the target environment by Cairns, Jill E., Zaman-Allah, Mainassara, Baudron, Frédéric, Voss, Rachel C., Hassall, Kirsty L., Euler, Michael A., Amondo, Emily I., Marenya, Paswel P., Prasanna, Boddupalli M.

“…Our analysis found that setting targets for women farmer participation ensured adequate representation, but participatory research should move beyond simple targets and ensure the inclusion of different types of women and men farmers. …”
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Public place, female space : a proposed structure plan for Kihinani, Zanzibar which includes women in the planning process by Axelsson, Hanna, Nederman, Louise

“…In the Zanzibari culture, social life takes place on the streets, but there is a notable difference in how women and men use public space. It is a behaviour firmly rooted in cultural norms, resulting in women spending most of their time at home. …”

Validation of Pro-WEFI conducted in Bangladesh by Adam, Rahma, Rajaratnam, Surendran

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Claim-making under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Barriers and opportunities for women’s voice and agency over asset selection by Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Narayanan, Sudha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Ray, Soumyajit

“…Utilizing a mixed-methods approach including surveys and qualitative interviews, the study uncovers various pathways to women’s claim-making, influenced by factors such as gender norms around mobility and women’s voice and agency, internal barriers and constraints including comfort in public speaking, and knowledge of the program and its various procedures for selecting assets. …”
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Farm and Family Balance Baseline Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

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Empowerment, adaptation, and agricultural production: Evidence from Niger by Wouterse, Fleur

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Gender, agriculture policies, and climate-smart agriculture in India by Barooah, Prapti, Alvi, Muzna, Ringler, Claudia, Pathak, Vishal

“…The Government of India has an impressive set of programs to address this issue, but they have substantial shortcomings, especially in reaching women farmers. OBJECTIVE We aim to understand policy and implementation gaps in reaching women farmers with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices and study how women and men farmer's different roles in agriculture shape their needs and access to complementary services needed to adapt to climate change. …”
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Gender dynamics in agricultural value chain development: Foundations and gaps by Pyburn, Rhiannon, Kruijssen, Froukje

“…This chapter traces an evolution in thinking over the past 20 years, recounting shifts, which are ongoing: from “women” to gender; from “women’s participation” to “gender equality;” from the initially siloed entry points of value chain performance and women, to convergence of the two; from a focus on tasks and roles to that of gender relations; from isolated “women’s projects” to gender integration throughout the chain; and from gender accommodative to gender-transformative interventions. …”
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The extent of women's empowerment across rural-urban areas and wealth categories and its role in nutrition outcomes of family members in Uttar Pradesh, India by Palani Samy, Venkatesh, Vellaichamy, Sangeetha, Girish Kumar, Jha, Sharma, Nitin, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…We used Uttar Pradesh data from National Family Health Survey (NFHS) -5 conducted in 2019-21 for the study. We found a positive relationship between household wealth and women's empowerment, indicating the vulnerability of women in poor families, especially in rural areas. …”
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Asset Control and Benefits Scale by Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative

“…The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative aims to broaden and deepen the measurement of women’s agency, based on the development of new tools and rigorous testing and comparison of both new and existing methods for measuring agency, and promoting the adoption of these measures at scale. …”
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Agricultural Self-efficacy Scale by Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative

“…Improving women’s self-efficacy—that is, their belief in their capabilities to act effectively towards a goal—is an important and urgent policy goal. …”
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