CGIAR GENDER Platform evidence explainers
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Item Navigating the complexities of field data collection: a reflection on using the pro-WEAI tool(Blog Post, 2024-05) Mukhopadhyay, Prama; Chadha, Deepali; Gartaula, Hom; Puskur, RanjithaItem Mechanization supports women farmers’ productivity, but impact on empowerment is inclusive(Brief, 2024-04-15) Masset, Edoardo; Malhotra, Suchi KapoorMechanization is regarded as a key tool in the empowerment of women in agriculture. Mechanization is often associated with an increase in farmers’ income and time available to invest in alternative economic activities. Evidence suggests a limited but positive impact of mechanization on women’s agricultural productivity. Evidence on the specific benefits of mechanization for women and its different impacts on women and men farmers remains inadequate.Item Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women’s incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings(Brief, 2024-04-17) Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor; Masset, EdoardoAgricultural value chain interventions, such as market integration strategies, negotiating better prices and developing new and more pro table products are important mechanisms to increase farm incomes. While women play a critical role in agriculture, power dynamics and sociocultural norms often restrict their participation to parts of the agricultural value chain that have the least economic returns, such as agricultural labor, petty trading and subsistence farming. Evidence indicates value chain interventions are successful at improving women’s incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings. However, this economic advancement is not enough to translate into noneconomic empowerment, such as altering gender roles and removing cultural barriers within families and communities.Item Small-scale, multidimensional interventions work better to improve equal access to finance in agriculture(Brief, 2024-02-16) White, Howard; Villanueva, Alyssa CyrielleItem How interventions improve women’s agency and create an enabling environment for entrepreneurship in agribusiness: an evidence and gap map(Brief, 2024-02-16) TV, Bhumika; Mantri, SwatiItem Implementing and evaluating gender-transformative approaches in agrifood systems: What does the evidence say?(Brief, 2023-11-21) Singh, Sabina; Puskur, RanjithaThe evidence base for the effectiveness of gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) in agriculture and food system interventions is small and weak, and many studies do not focus on specifically evaluating these approaches and methods. While the very limited quantitative evidence suggests that interventions that integrate GTAs have weak or no effects on many outcomes for women’s empowerment outcomes (including gender norms), qualitative evidence shows that, in some instances, shifts in gender roles could eventually lead to change in gender norms. Changes in norms can take generations, so studies examining different approaches to GTAs, including different intervention durations and intensities, and longer-term studies are needed to better understand the effects of GTAs on households and communities.Item Climate mitigation efforts can increase women’s resilience and empowerment in agri-food systems(Brief, 2023-12-19) Tavenner, Katie; Puskur, RanjithaItem Better use of gender-disaggregated data will improve climate-smart agriculture programs(Brief, 2023-12-06) Deering, Karl; Wright, P.Item The private sector could play a much bigger role in promoting gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture(Brief, 2023-11-28) Muneri, E.W.Item Norms and institutional obstacles cause differences in women’s and men’s adoption of climate-smart agriculture(Brief, 2023-11-28) Muneri, E.W.Item Knowledge dissemination approaches targeting women increase their use of climate-smart agricultural practices(Brief, 2023-11-27) Saran, Ashrita; Puskur, RanjithaItem Climate funding in agriculture that considers women can improve environmental, social and economic outcomes(Brief, 2023-11-13) Thomas, Benjamin; Bagnera, Elena; Pinko, NicoleItem More women’s agency on farms relates to better household nutrition—but differs by the type of production system(Brief, 2023-10-30) Vemireddy, Vidya; Bajoria, PriyanshaItem Raising aspirations is one way of empowering women in agriculture(Brief, 2023-06-21) Nandi, R.Item The status of women in agriculture and food systems: Persistent gaps and promising solutions(Brief, 2023-04-13) Gadeberg, Marianne; Lecoutere, ElsItem Governing bodies of global food organizations are lacking in gender and geographic diversity(Brief, 2022-12-05) Tanaka, Sonja; Parker, Alex"Key messages - More than 7 in 10 board seats (247/350) of organizations active in global food systems are held by nationals of high-income countries. This means that 70 percent of board seats represent just 16 percent of the global population. - Only 2 percent of board seats (7/351) are occupied by women from low-income countries, revealing huge disparities in the gender and geography of positions of power in global food systems organizations. - While organizations must be doing more to advance gender equality, there are positive shifts in the data. The proportion of women board chairs has increased - yet at just over one-third (16/45), this is still a far cry from gender parity. "Item Increasing women’s involvement in the workforce can improve dietary diversity(Brief, 2022-12-02) Sangwan, Nikita; Kumar, Shalander"Key messages - When women are more involved in the workforce, the dietary diversity of their households improves. The extra time that women use at work does not have adverse effects on their health. - Women’s paid and unpaid work impacts dietary diversity in different ways: paid work results in financial independence and empowerment in household decision-making that allows women to diversify diets. Unpaid work increases the number of food groups produced by women for consumption by their households. - Policies and development programs can harness synergies between schemes to improve nutrition and increase women’s employment to pursue global goals of ensuring better food for all."Item How climate change adaptation projects can advance gender equality and progress toward SDG 5(Brief, 2022-10-21) Some, Shreya; Roy, Joyashree"Key messages - Existing societal dynamics, including women’s lack of access to technology and their increasing labor burden due to forced migration, are some of the key reasons behind gender inequality in climate change adaptation projects. - Embedding gender considerations and facilitating women’s participation in design and implementation of climate adaptation projects—along with inclusive policies, training, information access, planning and monitoring—is a must to avoid gender inequality. - Evidence is clear: conscious efforts are essential to integrate local, Indigenous, intergenerational knowledge and institutions in existing, otherwise biased, formal scientific and institutional arrangements. Women play important roles in supporting, teaching and adapting traditional knowledge to climate change adaptive actions. "Item Effects of women’s empowerment interventions in food systems(Brief, 2022-08-03) Lane, Charlotte"Key messages - Available evidence indicates that women’s empowerment interventions can improve food security as well as food affordability and/or availability. Effects on diet quality and adequacy are smaller; however, the evidence is limited so this is not conclusive. - Qualitative evidence suggests that multi-component interventions that combine behavior change with asset transfers are more sustainable than single-focus interventions. - Gender-transformative approaches that consider gender and social norms and target men to expand women’s social roles may allow women to pursue more livelihoods options outside of the home. "Item Identifying climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots can help target investments and make women drivers of climate resilience(Brief, 2022-06-02) Puskur, Ranjitha; Lecoutere, Els"Key Messages - Women in food systems tend to be more negatively impacted by climate risks than men as they are more dependent on agriculture as well as more constrained in responding and adapting to changes in climate because of structural socio-economic inequalities. - Identifying climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots, where climate hazards converge with large concentrations of women participating in food systems and significant structural gender inequalities, enables allocating scarce resources to most-at-risk populations. - Women’s vulnerability to climate risk is highly contextual; this methodology to identify hotspots can be applied to identify subnational hotspots within countries. - When root causes of women’s excess risk to climate change impacts are addressed, women can be agents of change in building climate resilience."