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Highlights: We analyze gender wage gaps in agriculture, AFS, and outside AFS in 14 LMICs. We assess the implications of structural transformation on gender wage gaps...

The Gender Brief is tailored to provide insight into the contributions of women in small-scale fisheries to healthy food systems and sustainable livelihoods in Ghana. Approximately 90 000 women in Ghana...

This issue brief presents a general overview of the potential for women’s participation in the fisheries value chain. It seeks to identify opportunities in regional trade for women in the fisheries value...

This qualitative study was developed under the Empowering women and boosting livelihoods through agricultural trade: Leveraging the AfCFTA programme, co-implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

The 2017/18 Ghana Agriculture Census Report shows that women smallholder farmers contribute nearly 50% of the agricultural labor force in Ghana. Women are more engaged...

As farmers, businesswomen, mothers, innovators, workers, and educators, women are critical actors in Africa’s agrifood systems, making up almost two-thirds of the continent’s agrifood systems workforce...

This paper introduces a new framework to quantify costs and benefits for resilience-related outcomes of agricultural innovations targeting smallholder farmers. The framework employs a non-unitary household model with expected...

Adequate diet during pregnancy has positive effects on the mother and pregnancy outcome. Assessment of diet quality during pregnancy is particularly important in areas where household...

Resilient Food Systems promotes a holistic approach to enhancing agricultural productivity and restoring degraded landscapes in smallholder farming systems. This report showcases the achievements and innovations of...

Highlights Supplying men and women farmers with motor pumps for small-scale irrigation did not increase women's empowerment. Rather, the intervention had negative spillover effects...