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Climate-smart crop insurance to promote adoption of stress-tolerant seeds: Midterm findings from a cluster randomized trial by Cecchi, Francesco, Chegeh, Joseph, Aredo, Samson Dejene, Kivuva, Benjamin, Kramer, Berber, Waithaka, Lilian, Waweru, Carol

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Recovering bioenergy in Sub-Saharan Africa: gender dimensions, lessons and challenges by Njenga, M., Mendum, R.

Subjects: “…role of women…”
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Performance analysis of existing catfish and tilapia value chains and market systems in Nigeria: A post-farmgate value chain scoping study by Diyzee, Kanar, Williams, Gemma, Anastasiou, Kim, Powell, Andrea, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Nhuong Tran, Byrd, Kendra, Chin Yee Chan, Bogard, Jessica R., Steensma, Joe, Nukpezah, Julius, Adegoke, Agbabiaka, Subasinghe, Rohana, Siriwardena, Sunil

“…Our study finds that, in general, fish value chains are economically viable (profitable) and inclusive, as women and youths own over half of post-farmgate value chain activities. …”
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Performance analysis of existing catfish and tilapia value chains and market systems in Nigeria: A post-farmgate value chain scoping study by Diyzee, Kanar, Williams, Gemma, Anastasiou, Kim, Powell, Andrea, Shikuku, Kelvin, Tran, Nhuong, Byrd, Kendra, Chan, Chin Yee, Bogard, Jessica, Steensma, Joe, Nukpezah, Julius, Adegoke, Agbabiaka, Subasinghe, Rohana, Siriwardena, Sunil

“…Our study finds that, in general, fish value chains are economically viable (profitable) and inclusive, as women and youths own over half of post-farmgate value chain activities. …”
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Youth Engagement for Agroecology: An Application of Photo-Voice Methodology in the Tunisian Agroecological Living Landscape – A Case Study from the Community of Kesra by Idoudi, Zied, Frija, Aymen, Alary, Veronique, Tebourbi, Ons, Bessouda, Balkiss, Kortas, Ghada, Shijagurumayum, Meghajit, Djurfeldt, Nadia, Rietveld, Anne

“…The goal of using photo voice in this study is to engage young women and men in documenting and sharing their views on rural livelihoods, agriculture, and agroecology. …”
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Closing the gender asset gap: Learning from value chain development in Africa and Asia by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Rubin, Deborah, Manfre, Cristina, Waithanji, Elizabeth, van den Bold, Mara, Olney, Deanna K., Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…This paper explores initial findings from four case studies in the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project on changes in gender relations in different agricultural interventions. …”
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Role of maternal preconception nutrition on offspring growth and risk of stunting across the first 1000 days in Vietnam: A prospective cohort study by Young, Melissa F., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Gonzalez-Casanova, Ines, Addo, O. Yaw, Tran, Lan Mai, Nguyen, Son, Martorell, Reynaldo, Ramakrishnan, Usha

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Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains by Rubin, Deborah, Boonabaana, Brenda, Manfre, Cristina

“…In Africa south of the Sahara, the focus of this chapter, studies looked at women’s engagement in “agricultural commercialization” across different production and marketing pathways, among them contract farming (Carney 1994; Sørensen 1990; von Bulow and Sørensen 1993; Wilson 2000);2 formal and informal wage labor (Mbilinyi and Semakafu 1995; Dolan and Sorby 2003); women traders (Clark 1994; Morris and Saul 2000; Saul 1981); and…”
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Land restoration amid male outmigration: The cases of Burkina Faso and Kenya by Jennifer C. Langill, Crossland, Mary, Elias, Marlene, Vinceti, Barbara, Paez Valencia, Ana Maria, Traoré, Alain, Traoré, Daouda

“…As male heads of households or their sons outmigrate periodically in Kenya compared to young men leaving seasonally in Burkina Faso, the impacts of migration on intrahousehold gender relations are more transformative in the Kenyan case study, with women garnering greater decision-making power on the family farm and in land restoration activities, whereas entrenched gender norms in the Burkina Faso case remain unchallenged by migration.…”
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Dairy intensification, mothers and children: An exploration of infant and young child feeding practices among rural dairy farmers in Kenya by Wyatt, Amanda, Yount, Kathryn M., Null, Clair, Ramakrishnan, Usha, Girard, Aimee Webb

“…Quantitative results indicated that women from higher dairy producing households were more likely to introduce cow's milk to infants before they reached 6 months than women from households not producing any dairy. …”
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Gender and innovation in agriculture: a case study of farmers varietal preference of drought tolerant maize in southern Guinea Savannah region of Nigeria by Ayinde, O.E., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Olaoye, G., Akangbe, J.

“…It is therefore recommended that effort should be made to involve male and female farmers in the varietal selection procedure as to facilitate easy adoption of hybrid maize. The women are more concerned with the food security of their family and hence are important segment in maize innovation that improve the food security of farming households. …”
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Strategies for better integrating nutrient supplementation and dietary diversity approaches for stunting reduction and improved nutrition outcomes: A Rwandan case study by Warner, James, Marivoet, Wim, Covic, Namukolo M., Umugwaneza, M.

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Impact assessment of Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP) on maternal, child health and nutritional status in Pakistan: A quasi-experimental study protocol by Muhammad, Shah, Malik, Asma Abdul, Soofi, Sajid, Habib, Atif, Umer, Muhammad, Rizvi, Arjumand, Ahmed, Imran, Leroy, Jef L., Cousens, Simon, Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed

“…In response, the Government of Pakistan initiated the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP), a nutritional supplementation programme for pregnant women, mothers of children aged 0 to 23 months and children aged 6 to 24 months. …”
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Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Tra Hat Village, Vinh Loi, Bac Lieu, Viet Nam (VNM 03) by Truc, Ngo Thi Thanh, Phong, Ngo Dang, Nguyen, Thanh Binh, Chi, Truong Thi Ngoc, Duong, Le Minh, Yen, B.T., Ferrer, Alice J.

“…This report presents data collected from the Village Baseline Study conducted on 2-4 October 2014 at the Tra Hat village, Vinh Loi district, Bac Lieu, Vietnam. …”
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Situación laboral de la mujer en el sector forestal (actividades operativas de campo); cuenca del Canal de Panamá y la provincia de Chiriquí by Rodríguez Samudio, Viodelda

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Integration of allotment garden in public green space for the social wellbeing of urban residents : a study of Ekebydalen allotment garden, Uppsala, Sweden by Hadgu, Semhal Mehari

“…Result: 6 different allotment gardens were observed and characterized. Based on the case study (observation), the Ekebydalen allotment garden was chosen as the main site for further pro-posal development. (60%) of the respondents in the survey were middle-aged (30 -50 years old) women (77.5%), most of them with university education (88%) and Swedish background (90%). …”

Can digitally enabling community health and nutrition workers improve services delivery to pregnant women and mothers of infants? Quasi-experimental evidence from a national-scale... by Patil, Sumeet R., Nimmagadda, Sneha, Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi, Avula, Rasmi, Bajaj, Sumati, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Paul, Anushman, Menon, Purnima, Walker, Dilys

“…The study was powered to detect difference of 5–9 percentage points (pp) with type I error of 0.05 and type II error of 0.20 with endline sample of 6635 mothers of children <12 months and 2398 pregnant women from a panel of 841 villages. …”
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The reverse gender wage gap in Bangladesh: Demystifying the counterintuitive by Rahman, Mustafizur, Al-Hasan, Md.

“…While the study does not find strong embedded discrimination against women, it does find sectoral segmentation, and presence of glass ceiling in the Bangladesh labour market.…”
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Gender parity and inorganic fertilizer technology adoption in farm households: Evidence from Niger by Tankari, Mahamadou Roufahi

“…This study seeks to address the gap in understanding the role of gender parity in inorganic fertiliser technology adoption in Niger. …”
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A photographic food atlas with portion sizes of commonly consumed foods in Accra, Ghana by Folson, Gloria, Bannerman, Boateng, Ador, Gabriel, Atadze, Vicentia, Akoto, Saudatu, Asante, Stephen, Abbeyquaye, Joseph, Anang-Tetteh, Audrey, Guri, Erica, Ibrahim, Gabriel, Alhassan, Jamil, Tetteh, Matilda, Afuanimaa, Belinda, Koch, Bastien, McCloskey, Peter, Gangupantulu, Rohit, Braga, Bianca C., Hughes, David, Gelli, Aulo

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