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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...

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...

Background Bolstering farm-level crop diversity is one strategy to strengthen food system resilience and achieve global food security. Women who live in rural areas...

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: 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...

Malnutrition levels in Burkina Faso are declining steadily since two decades. Yet, one child out of four is still stunted, totalling nearly one million...

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...

Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack...

Home gardening is promoted as an adaptation strategy to ameliorate the increasing food insecurity from climate change impacts among subsistence farming families in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Yet...

Highlights 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...