Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange

GENDER-NUTRITION IDEA EXCHANGE

2015
June 1, 2015
How can irrigation water improve women’s empowerment and nutrition? An untapped potential for Africa south of the Sahara
In Africa South of the Sahara, where 329 million people lack access to improved water supply and 640 million do
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2015
May 5, 2015
It is time: Why time matters in agriculture-nutrition pathways
This month on the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange, we asked Sara Stevano, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics in SOAS,
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2015
April 6, 2015
Don’t risk your health for nutrition!: Why gender matters for food safety
Some of the foods that would most enhance nutrition in diets in the developing world are also the riskiest in
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2015
March 9, 2015
Is gender inequality the main roadblock to achieving nutrition targets? The Global Nutrition Report on gender equality
Reposted with permission from Lawrence Haddad's blog, Development Horizons. To mark International Women's Day I wanted to write about something that has been niggling me.
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2015
March 6, 2015
It’s about time: Interpreting time use results from two studies in Bangladesh
Monica Jain’s blog post on women’s time use in Bangladesh from last month's Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange generated a lot of discussion
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2015
February 2, 2015
Addressing complexities of measuring women’s time use in Bangladesh
Collecting accurate time use data is notoriously challenging across demographics, and gender norms relating to definitions of work can even
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2015
January 5, 2015
Second A4NH Gender-Nutrition Methods Workshop: Nutrition and Women’s Empowerment
On December 2-4, 2014, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) held the second annual Gender
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2014
December 1, 2014
Much ado about decision-making: Musings on collecting gender and empowerment measures in program evaluations
Amber Peterman is an Assistant Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
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2014
November 17, 2014
Promising Opportunities: The Role and Importance of Gender in Biofortification Research
Following last month’s post on why HarvestPlus conducted a Strategic Gender Assessment, this month Ekin Birol (Head, Impact Research Unit
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