Women in agriculture: Four myths

C Doss, R Meinzen-Dick, A Quisumbing, S Theis - Global food security, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG) on gender equality and women's rights
and at least 11 of the 17 SDGs require indicators related to gender dynamics. Despite the …

[HTML][HTML] Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence

R Meinzen-Dick, A Quisumbing, C Doss, S Theis - Agricultural systems, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the literature on women's land rights (WLR) and poverty reduction. It
uses the Gender, Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP) conceptual framework to identify …

Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law

T McGavock - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Child marriage is still common in the developing world: in 2012, one in three women was
married by age 18, with more than 10% married before age 15. Beginning in 2000 …

[PDF][PDF] Women's economic empowerment

A Hunt, E Samman - Navigating enablers and constraints …, 2016 - ocd.lcwu.edu.pk
This data draws on microdata from the Gallup World Poll, 2006-2015, to provide insights into
people's position in the labour market and their perceptions relating to work. Nearly all the …

Gender, agrobiodiversity, and climate change: A study of adaptation practices in the Nepal Himalayas

B Bhattarai, R Beilin, R Ford - World Development, 2015 - Elsevier
Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be
exacerbated under a changing climate. Using in-depth interviews with farmers and officials …

A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

AA Mersha, F Van Laerhoven - Regional Environmental Change, 2016 - Springer
While adaptation has received a fair amount of attention in the climate change debate,
barriers to adaptation are the focus of a more specific, recent discussion. In this discussion …

Strengthening economic rights and women's occupational choice: The impact of reforming Ethiopia's family law

M Hallward-Driemeier, O Gajigo - World Development, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the impact of strengthening legal rights on the types of economic
opportunities pursued. Ethiopia changed its family law, expanding wives' access to marital …

The interplay between planned and autonomous adaptation in response to climate change: Insights from rural Ethiopia

AA Mersha, F van Laerhoven - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
Using the notion of institutional interplay, which refers to situations where the operation or
consequences of one regime influence another regime, the article explores the interplay …

Sustaining escapes from poverty

V Diwakar, A Shepherd - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
The objectives of this research are to identify the difference between sustained and
temporary poverty escapes for policy and program design, based on research in …

Gender and climate change adaptation: A case of Ethiopian farmers

JP Aryal, TB Sapkota, DB Rahut… - Natural Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The adverse impacts of climate change, in many cases, aggravate existing gender
inequalities and hinder developing countries from achieving the targets set by the United …