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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...

Cashew is a cash crop primarily grown by smallholder farmers in Tanzania and is a major source of rural employment and income in Coastal areas. Women dominate small-scale cashew processing...

Women farmers produce 30 percent less per hectare than their male counterparts. Among various factors, there are three key drivers of gender gaps...

Women play an important role in food value chain development, but their labor is often invisible in related policies. Female injera bakers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...

Highlights: 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...

Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agrifood value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people...

Food losses are a major concern and occur in most fish distribution chains worldwide. Not only do losses constitute lost income to fishers, processors...

Gender influences participation in food value chains with implications for value chain upgrading. This study investigated roles as well as differences in production activities, awareness, training and attitudes...

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...

Both women and men are involved in agriculture globally, although their roles differ significantly by region and are changing rapidly. Gender shapes access to productive...