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Agriculture-nutrition pathways
March 12, 2018
Can WFP’s Food Assistance for Assets contribute to women’s empowerment and nutrition?
In 2017, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) published a report on a five-country study on how WFP’s Food
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Agriculture-nutrition pathways
February 5, 2018
Is migration improving household food security? Evidence from Far West Nepal
Utilizing quantitative and qualitative approaches, Jeeyon Janet Kim, a PhD Candidate from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
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Gender
January 19, 2018
How many people will an intervention reach? A how-to guide for indirectly estimating the number of pregnant women in a subpopulation
When deciding how to design or whether to fund a nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention, we need to know the potential scope
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Agriculture-nutrition pathways
November 15, 2017
Women, village chickens, and animal source food consumption in Timor-Leste
In this blog, Johanna Wong, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, shares research findings from Timor-Leste about the
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Gender
October 25, 2017
Gender roles in agriculture: Did anything change?
In March 2017, IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) published a discussion paper about changing gender roles in agriculture,
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Gender
October 11, 2017
Rural mothers, gender equity, and scaling up biofortification
In the western Ugandan district Kakumiro, Nakijoba Anet Wadega teaches other mothers about preparing nutritious and balanced meals, proper hygiene
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Gender
August 30, 2017
Counting the hours: The challenges of measuring time use
In July 2017, the World Bank released three methodological working papers discussing the challenges of measuring key areas of women’s
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Agriculture-nutrition pathways
July 26, 2017
Researchers highlight gender and equity at the ANH Academy Week
Gender and equity were hot topics of discussion at the 2017 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Scientific Symposium and Academy
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Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange
May 1, 2017
A framework for measuring women’s empowerment at multiple levels
Gender and equity are cross-cutting themes across the five flagship programs of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition
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