By Floriane Clément, senior research fellow at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and Corey O’Hara, researcher at the International Nutrition Foundation. Introduction Agricultural programs are increasingly measuring women’s empowerment at the household level through standardised tools that can be used across countries and over time. In this blog, we argue that such tools should go beyond agency. Feminist…
By Anika Hannan, monitoring and evaluation specialist at ICF International. Monitoring progress toward achieving global goals such as improving gender equality and women’s empowerment requires developing instruments that measure these constructs. For an abstract concept like ‘women’s empowerment’, any survey instrument must be well understood by both participants and researchers. A team from the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase…
In this new publication, Alessandra Galie (ILRI) and Cathy Farnworth (independent) zoom into the relational nature of empowerment. They demonstrate how individual empowerment requires the empowerment and deliberate support of others and find that community judgement and local gender norms determine empowerment outcomes.
During the Seeds of Change conference, we approached several people from the ‘Gender in Agriculture’ crowd to interview them on their work, on their insights about the conference and their outlook on the next frontiers of our field of research. Find an overview of all conference related outputs here. In this very special interview, we are privileged to feature eminent scholar…
Here is the tenth issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! This is a special issue covering the recent ‘Seeds of Change’ conference, as usual prefaced by Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, for a broad sweep of recent news on the CGIAR Gender Platform and Research front! For this special…
