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How Shea Nut Collectives are Empowering African Women (2023)
In the last 23 years shea exports have increased about 600%, which should be good news for collectors who are mostly rural women. However, women are oftentimes squeezed out by middle men. This podcast...
Gender-Smart Agriculture: The Only Way Forward for Women and...
Despite being a significant percentage of the world’s farmers, women face major gaps in capturing the benefits of climate-smart agriculture – leading to gender gaps in productivity (and greater food i...
Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (2022)
Findings from this RCT indicate that – with some encouragement – men are willing to transfer commercial farming contract rights to their wives. This study examines the impact of this on women’s positi...
Raising Aspirations Is One Way of Empowering Women in Agricu...
A systemic review of 419 studies across 14 developing countries sheds light on the relationships between aspirations, agriculture, and women’s empowerment, finding strong evidence that raising aspirat...
Women Farmers in Pakistan Aren’t Realizing their Potential –...
Pakistani women farmers face challenges at the policy and individual levels in realizing their potential. Barriers, such as gender norms and perceptions that women are “helpers” not farmers, and a lac...
Closing Gender Gaps in Productivity to Advance Gender Equali...
Reviewing new evidence (2011-2021), this working paper examines trends and the extent of current gender productivity gaps in agriculture as well as what works in different contexts. While concluding t...
Policy Lessons on Agriculture (2023)
Part of the Gender Innovation Lab Federation Evidence Series, this handy brief dives into the large productivity gap (up to 66 %) between male and female farmers around the world. Insights derived fro...
Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Innovations an...
The authors use a gender and food systems framework and standardized measures of women’s empowerment to analyze evidence of “what works” to empower women in agriculture, drawing on findings from 11 im...
Women as Agents of Change for Greening Agriculture and Reduc...
Crop yields are expected to drop by 8% to 10% as temperatures rise between .5 to 2 degrees Celsius, adding urgency to the need for climate-smart solutions. This detailed policy brief from the UNDP hig...
Empowering Women in Agriculture: The Role of the WEAI in Ban...
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) evaluates women’s empowerment across five domains – production, resources, income, leadership, and time. The tool allows policymakers to monitor pro...
Exploring the Sources of the Agricultural Productivity Gende...
Smaller plot size is the leading source of female productivity advantage as measured by yield per unit of land, reflecting the inverse relationship between cultivated area and productivity in Sri Lank...
The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (2023)
Transforming agricultural systems to improve productivity, closing gender gaps in access to assets and resources, and changing discriminatory social norms remain critical for achieving gender equality...