Across developing countries, women play an important role both as producers of major food crops and in improving household nutrition. This research paper aims to assess the effect...
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Bolstering farm-level crop diversity is one strategy to strengthen food system resilience and achieve global food security. Women who live in rural areas...
Engaging in nonfarm activities has been considered an important strategy to increase household income in rural Burkina Faso. However, the empirical evidence on how income from nonfarm...
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We evaluated the impact of a gender-sensitive poultry marketing intervention on women's empowerment.
Despite reaching and providing some benefits to women, there was no program...
Many factors interact to shape household food security and consumption and these must be analyzed together to build understandings of how they interact in particular contexts...
Understanding the types of food systems interventions that foster women’s empowerment and the types of women that are able to benefit from different interventions is important for development policy. SELEVER was...
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We document trends in food security during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We see a sharp increase in food insecurity during the...
Background: Providing balanced energy–protein (BEP) supplements is a promising intervention to improve birth outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); however, evidence is limited. We aimed...
This background paper examines the linkages and interactions between women’s empowerment, food systems, and nutrition. It examines:
How women’s empowerment and gender equality relate to...
Objective: To investigate the seasonal variations of women's dietary diversity (WDD) (items consumed and food supply) and its linkages with agriculture, market and wild resources. Design: A cohort...