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...
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Women farmers produce 30 percent less per hectare than their male counterparts. Among various factors, there are three key drivers of gender gaps...
Pig production provides more than two million Ugandan households with income. Pigs are mostly produced by smallholder farmers; three-quarters of these are women. Uganda...
Biofortified beans are being promoted in Burundi to solve malnutrition issues among rural households. The study was conducted in Muyinga and Gasorwe communes, where biofortified...
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...
Gender gaps in agrifood value chains are manifested in differential access to and control of productive resources, upgrading activities, market participation, farm productivity and food security...
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The note analyses key features of the interplay between trade and gender equality in agriculture exploring gender dynamics in agrifood value chains and their implications for...
Introducing small-scale irrigation can bring opportunities for empowerment and exclusion. To support equity and inclusion, projects must go beyond technology access alone. Situated outside...
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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...
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...