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March 9, 2015
20 years of gender research
It has been 20 years since nearly 200 governments agreed on a roadmap towards gender equality through the Beijing Declaration
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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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2014
November 6, 2014
Using participatory mapping with a gender lens to understand how landscapes are used for nutrition
Many rural people derive their sustenance from sources embedded in their landscape – the cropland, pasture, trees, forests and rivers
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2014
October 6, 2014
Building Pathways to Success: Why HarvestPlus Commissioned a Strategic Gender Assessment
Doing gender research is one thing; integrating gender into a research program is another altogether.  HarvestPlus recently completed a year-long Strategic
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2014
September 1, 2014
Reflections from the field: Implementing the Global Study on Gender Norms and Capabilities for Agricultural Innovation
Qualitative research has enormous potential to produce rich data that can be used to design agricultural interventions that take into
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