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barrientos.pdf (435.45 KB) Transformation of global sourcing over recent decades has significant implications for gender relations of production in the developing world. Analysis of global production networks and value chains (GPN/GVC) provides important insights into the changing dynamics of global sourcing and its...
MEAS Brief 2 - Gender and Extension - 2013_05_13.pdf (927.72 KB) To realize the gains of reducing gender equality, men and women farmers need access to information, skills and tools to improve yields. However, levels of contact between farmers and extension agents remain relatively low in general, and especially low among women (World Bank, 2010). The...
The Impact of Irrigation on Nutrition, Health, and Gender.pdf (543.67 KB) Few studies have analyzed the impact of irrigation interventions on nutrition, health, and women’s empowerment, despite the large potential of irrigation to affect these important variables. Irrigation interventions may have differential effects on different members in the household and in the...
The report, commissioned by the Evaluation Department of DANIDA, examines which gender issues are important when and where in value chains, focusing on development interventions that explicitly or implicitly employ a value chain approach. In box 2 on page 24 an example of certification to...
Enete & Amusa - Contribution of Men and Women to Farming Decisions in Cocoa Based Agroforestry Households of Ekiti State Nigeria.pdf (225.81 KB) This paper addresses the role of women in decision making at farm-level particularly in a male dominated cash crop environment like the cocoa agro-forestry households. Not involving women in decision making could be counterproductive. Although not immediately related to sustainable cocoa as such...
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