Alliance-supported community seed banks in Kenya (since 2019) and Uganda (since 2010) have maintained 72 crop and tree species and more than 600 varieties. Up to September...
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In Africa, agriculture is vital for employment and food security. Despite women contributing 40 percent of agricultural labor, they face barriers leading to significant gender gaps...
Women in developing countries are often characterized by lower social status, less input into decision-making, lack of access to resources, and lower mobility, while their inclusion...
Highlights: Women make up more than 50% of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they have less access to productive resources. Gender gap in agricultural productivity...
Gender inequality and malnutrition are regarded as inseparable parts of the vicious cycle of poverty, being considered a cause and an effect of hunger and poverty. The majority of rural households practise...
Evidence suggests that women’s limited access to resources, agency, and associated achievements affect agricul tural productivity in much of Africa and Asia. These relationships are further...
In Ethiopia, food security and vulnerability assessments have traditionally focused on rural areas. Recently, the issue of urban food security has been attracting attention in global...
Highlights: Gender food security gap modelled using nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach. Female-headed households have a lower probability of being food secure. Differences...
Highlights: Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) can overestimate household intakes. The use of Adult Male Equivalents (AME) underestimates of women’s shares o ffoods...
The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development...