Agricultural development efforts that do not address persistent gender gaps miss opportunities for greater impact. This synthesis reflects on key findings from integrated quantitative and qualitative analyses at the nexus of gender, agricultural development, and climate change. Linked farm househ...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Bryan, Elisabeth
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Bernier, Quinn
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Twyman, Jennifer
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Kieran, Caitlin
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Ringler, Claudia
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Jost, Christine
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Doss, Cheryl
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[Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?]
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Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?
Being able to access, control, and own productive assets such as land, labor, finance, and social capital enables people to create stable and productive lives. Yet relatively little is known about how agricultural development programs can most effectively deliver these outcomes of well-being, emp...
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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Njuki, Jemimah
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Behrman, J.
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Rubin, Deborah
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Peterman, A.
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Waithanji, Elizabeth M.
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[Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework]
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Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework
Research has shown that women, when given the capital and opportunity, make unique, positive contributions to development outcomes ranging from agricultural productivity to poverty reduction. It comes as little surprise, then, that agricultural research, development, and extension systems are gen...
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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Njuki, Jemimah
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Behrman, J.
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Rubin, Deborah
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Peterman, A.
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Waithanji, Elizabeth M.
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[Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework]
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework
Starting from the assessment that past efforts at reform in agricultural water management in developing countries have achieved very little, this article argues that a fundamental change is required in the approach to policy and institutional transformation if the present deadlock in the internal...
Mollinga, P.P.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Merrey, Douglas J.
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[Politics, plurality and problemsheds: a strategic approach for reform of agricultural water resources management]
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Politics, plurality and problemsheds: a strategic approach for reform of agricultural water resources management
There is growing recognition of the importance of women’s empowerment in its own right and for a range of development outcomes, but less understanding of what empowerment means to rural women and men. The challenge of measuring empowerment, particularly across cultures and contexts, is also garne...
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Rubin, Deborah
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Elias, Marlène
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Mulema, Annet A.
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Myer, Emily
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[Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research]
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research
This introduction to the special issue deploys a framework, inspired by realist synthesis and introduced in Section 1, that aims to untangle the contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes associated with investments that link poverty reduction and rural prosperity within a broad agri-food systems perspec...
Tomich, Thomas P.
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Lidder, Preetmoninder
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Coley, Mariah
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Gollin, Douglas
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Webb, Patrick
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Carberry, Peter
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[Food and agricultural innovation pathways for prosperity]
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Food and agricultural innovation pathways for prosperity
Despite recent evidence that decisions about technology adoption often involve input from both men and women, the literature on technology adoption rarely considers gender and intrahousehold issues. In this paper, we use survey data from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania to investigate the influence ...
Seymour, Gregory
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Doss, Cheryl
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Marenya, Paswel
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Passarelli, Simone
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[Women’s empowerment and the adoption of improved maize varieties: Evidence from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania]
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Women’s empowerment and the adoption of improved maize varieties: Evidence from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania
Groundwater is one of the most challenging common pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of collective action games to not only measure propensity for cooperation, but to improve local understanding of groundwater interrelationships a...
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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Janssen, Marco A.
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Kandikuppa, Sandeep
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Chaturvedi, Rahul
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Rao, Kaushalendra
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Theis, Sophie
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[Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India]
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Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India