This article presents a review of seven guides for gender-equitable value chain
development (VCD). The guides advocate persuasively the integration of gender into VCD …

Ownership of assets is important for poverty reduction, and women's control of assets is
associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels. This …

There are implications to sustainable development from overconsumption of natural
resources. Increasingly, economies are running out of resources to sustain or achieve …

Strengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly
women farmers, to produce for both home and the market is currently a development priority …

Abstract Development policy increasingly focuses on building capacities to respond to
change (adaptation), and to drive change (innovation). Few studies, however, focus …

Understanding the adaptive capacity (AC) of farmers is crucial to planning effective
adaptation. Action to promote farmers' AC is required because climate change (CC) is …

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social
protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability …

Background Productive resources are essential to the livelihoods and food security of the
world's rural poor. Gender-equal ownership of resources is considered key to increasing …

Households face many collective action situations, with members working together to
produce livelihoods and allocate goods. But neither unitary nor bargaining models of the …

Women's empowerment is often an important goal of development interventions. This paper
explores local perceptions of empowerment in the Upper East Region of Ghana and the …