Search Results - Women and literature

Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India by Kumar, Neha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Arrieta, Alejandra, Jilani, Amir Hamza, Chakrabarti, Suman, Menon, Purnima, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Women’s self-help groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social, political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. …”
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Evidence gap map on impacts of Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles (STIBs) on women’s empowerment and resilience. CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality (HER+) by Pasha, Atika, Khan, Sarah, Urueña, Viviana, Huonen, Ruthus, Furlani, Irene, Delgerchuluun, Ankhbayar, Puskur, Ranjitha, Mishra, Avni, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Nchanji, Eileen, Ketema, Dessalegn Molla, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Everisto, Mapedza

“…Therefore, this evidence gap map reviews the existing literature on the effect of different STIBs and provides evidence on how and whether these bundles empower women and enhance their resilience. …”
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Transdisciplinary Approaches for Market Intelligence Research: Theory, Practice, and Implications for Designing Product Profiles in Crop Breeding by Amoak, Daniel, Najjar, Dina, Belcher, Brian, Connor, Melanie, Banda, Vishnuvardhan Reddy, Teeken, Bela, Muungani, Dean

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Gender justice and food security in India: A review by Rao, Nitya, Pradhan, Mamata, Roy, Devesh

“…Rather than exclusively targeting women and often overburdening them with the responsibility for household food security, policy approaches need to encourage and enhance reciprocity and sharing between men and women in households and communities, and empower them to negotiate effectively vis-à-vis institutions of the state, markets, and society. …”
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Demand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key crops by Williams, Frances E., Taron, Avinandan

“…Purpose: The need to increase women’s access to extension has been extensively discussed. …”
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Exploring linkages between agriculture and HIV/AIDS: A multilevel study of the impact of agricultural consumption regimes on women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Kenya by Mwangi, Esther

“…This study addresses this gap in the literature and examines how agricultural contexts in Kenya influence women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. …”
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The ‘Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women’ (MDD-W) Indicator is related to household food insecurity and farm production diversity: Evidence from rural Mali by Adubra, Laura, Savy, Mathilde, Fortin, Sonia, Kameli, Yves, Kodjo, Niamké Ezoua, Fainke, Kamayera, Mahamadou, Tanimoune, Le Port, Agnès, Martin-Prével, Yves

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A review of gender inequality and women’s empowerment in aquaculture using the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework approach: A case study of Nigeria by Adam, Rahma, Njogu, Lucy

“…What can be done to bring about gender equality and women’s empowerment in the aquaculture sector? This article explores these questions through a systematic review of the extant literature on gender and aquaculture using Nigeria as a case study. …”
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Maternal and paternal employment in agriculture and early childhood development: A cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health survey data by Bliznashka, Lilia, Jeong, Joshua, Jaacks, Lindsay M.

“…Considerable literature from low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) links maternal employment to child nutritional status. …”
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Exploring gender and forest, tree and agroforestry value chains: Evidence and lessons from a systematic review by Haverhals, M., Ingram, V.J., Elias, Marlène, Basnett, B.S., Petersen, S.

“…Cultural norms and overlapping customary and formal regulatory arrangements often position men in more favorable positions than women in FTA value chains. Interventions in FTA value chains largely focus on enhancing women’s participation and benefits, but rarely consider the relationships between men and women. …”
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Characteristics of smallholder farm households in Upper Egypt: Implications for nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions by El-Enbaby, Hoda, Ecker, Olivier, Figueroa, Jose Luis, Leroy, Jef L., Breisinger, Clemens

“…Agricultural interventions can impact nutrition through six main pathways, which are: 1) providing direct access to food from own production; 2) providing a source of income from which food and other nutrition needs can be met; 3) affecting food prices; 4) affecting women’s social status and empowerment; 5) affecting women’s time use from participation in agricultural work; and 6) affecting women’s health and nutrition from engagement in agricultural activities. …”
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Digital agricultural platforms and inclusivity: Access needs for user groups of the EzyAgric Platform in Uganda by Ajambo, Susan, Kikulwe, Enoch, Birachi, Eliud, Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng

“…The study also finds that women prefer practical applications, emphasizing the need for more user-friendly interfaces, which aligns with existing literature. …”
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Current status of knowledge about end-user preferences for boiled potato in Uganda – A food science, gender and demand perspective by Kisakye, S., Tinyiro, S.E., Mayanja, S., Naziri, D.

“…Potato is important for food and income generation for both men and women value chain actors, hence new potato varieties have been adopted in the different regions of Uganda. …”
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Gender and livestock feed research in developing countries: A review by Harris-Coble, Lacey, Balehegn, Mulubrhan, Adesogan, Adegbola T., Colverson, Kathleen E.

“…However, individual feed tasks showed stronger involvement trends toward men or women. Women were more likely to be involved in the provision of feed to livestock than men (69% of observations, 24 observations), whereas men had higher levels of participation than women in fodder collection (54%, 19 observations) and grazing and herding (65%, 33 observations). …”
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Fostering an enabling environment for equality and empowerment in agri-food systems: An assessment at multiple scales by Lecoutere, Els, Achandi, Esther L., Ampaire, Edidah L., Fischer, Gundula, Gumucio, Tatiana, Najjar, Dina, Singaraju, Niyati

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Assessing the impact of participatory research in rice breeding on poor rice farming households with emphasis on women farmers: a case study in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India by Paris, Thelma, Singh, Abha, Singh, V., Atlin, Gary, Reyes, Amelia de los

“…Despite the immense literature on the impacts of production, post production technologies on women farmers, systematic studies on the impacts of PPB on women in any category, either in terms of the effects of being a participant in a participatory plant breeding process (PPB) process, or in terms of the impact of the new materials generated is few. …”
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A dyadic interview guide to explore intra-household decision-making by Cole, Steven M., Mwakanyamale, Devis F., Ssendi, L., Elias, M.

“…Studies in the agricultural research for development literature that explore women’s involvement in decision-making within the household tend to focus their analysis on married or cohabiting couples and often consult only one spouse in a marital dyad during field interviews. …”
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Migration, gender, and farming systems in Asia: Evidence, data, and knowledge gaps by Mueller, Valerie, Kovarik, Chiara, Sproule, Kathryn, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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Poverty, gender, and water issues in irrigated agriculture and irrigation institutions: mainstreaming gender in water resources management by Upadhyay, Bhawana

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Gender inclusion in the designing and implementation of multistakeholder platforms in Zambia by Mapedza, Everisto D.

“…This paper, firstly, engages with literature on MSPs and how gender equality and social inclusion can be made intentional by including women and youths in the processes. …”
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