Publications

Kori, P., Verma, B. and Puskur, R. 2025. Too Hot to Carry On: A Growing Crisis for Women Farmers. International Rice Research Institute, India. 15 pages.

Kori, P., Verma, B. and Puskur, R. 2025. Heat Stress: A Growing Crisis for Women Farmers. International Rice Research Institute, India. 14 pages.

Chadha, D., Puskur, R., Gaur P. and Mukhopadhyay, P. 2025. Strengthening women-led Turkey farming in West Bengal: Policy Dialogue Report. CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion.

Mitra, Amit, and Nitya Rao. 2021. “Contract Farming, Ecological Change and the Transformations of Reciprocal Gendered Social Relations in Eastern India.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 48 (2): 436–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1683000.

Kaur, Simrit, and Cheshta Kapuria. 2020. “Determinants of Financial Inclusion in Rural India: Does Gender Matter?” International Journal of Social Economics 47 (6): 747–67. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-07-2019-0439

Francesca Mancini, 2006. Impact of IPM Farmer Field Schools on the environment, health and livelihoods of cotton growers in Southern India. Doctoral thesis, Biological Farming Systems
Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
ISBN 90-8504-388-3.

Ramachandran, V. K., Madhura Swaminathan, and Shruti Nagbhushan (eds). 2020. Women and Work in Rural India. New Delhi, India: Tulika Books. ISBN : 978-81-939269-6-3.

Resurrección, B.P. et al. (2019). In the Shadows of the Himalayan Mountains: Persistent Gender and Social Exclusion in Development. In: Wester, P., Mishra, A., Mukherji, A., Shrestha, A. (eds) The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_14

Chakrabarti, Soma. 2014. The gender advantage: Women on the front line of climate change. Rome: International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Huyer, Sophia; Gumucio, Tatiana; Tavenner, Katie; Acosta, Mariola; Chanana, Nitya; Khatri-Chhetri, Arun; Mungai, Catherine; Ouedraogo, Mathieu; Otieno, Gloria; Radeny, Maren; Recha, John; and Simelton, Elisabeth. 2021. “From Vulnerability to Agency in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation.” In Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Rhiannon Pyburn and Anouka van Eerdewijk, 261–294. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

WIEGO. Working in public space: A manual for street vendors. Available at Working in Public Space: A Manual for Street Vendors (wiego.org)

Hariharan, V. K., Mittal, S., Rai, M. et al. 2020. “Does climate-smart village approach influence gender equality in farming households? A case of two contrasting ecologies in India.” Climatic Change 158, 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2321-0.

To cite this article: Robin Richardson, Norbert Schmitz, Sam Harper & Arijit Nandi (2019) Development of a Tool to Measure Women’s Agency in India, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 20:1, 26-53, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2018.1545751

Lentz, E., Narayanan, S. (2019). Women’s empowerment and nutrition: Evidence from Niger using the WEN grid.

Dar, Manzoor H., Showkat A. Waza, Swati Nayak, Ritadhi Chakravorty, Najam W. Zaidi, and Mosharaf Hossain. "Gender focused training and knowledge enhances the adoption of climate resilient seeds." Technology in society 63 (2020): 101388.

Ogra, Monica V., and Ruchi Badola. "Gender and climate change in the Indian Himalayas: Global threats, local vulnerabilities, and livelihood diversification at the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve." Earth System Dynamics 6, no. 2 (2015): 505-523.

Sugden, Fraser, Niki Maskey, Floriane Clement, Vidya Ramesh, Anil Philip, and Ashok Rai. "Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation." Global Environmental Change 29 (2014): 258-269.

Singh, Ram, S. M. Feroze, and Lala IP Ray. "Effects of drought on livelihoods and gender roles: A case study of Meghalaya." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 20, no. 3 (2013): 453-467.

Shanthi, B., P. Mahalakshmi, and V. S. Chandrasekaran. "Assessment of challenges faced by the coastal women due to the impact of climatic change in selected coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, India." (2017).

Mahajan, Kanika. "Rainfall shocks and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Indian agriculture." World Development 91 (2017): 156-172.

Singh, Ranjay K., Kerstin K. Zander, Satyendra Kumar, Anshuman Singh, Parvender Sheoran, Arvind Kumar, S. M. Hussain et al. "Perceptions of climate variability and livelihood adaptations relating to gender and wealth among the Adi community of the Eastern Indian Himalayas." Applied Geography 86 (2017): 41-52.

Mehar, Mamta, Surabhi Mittal, and Narayan Prasad. "Farmers coping strategies for climate shock: is it differentiated by gender?." Journal of Rural Studies 44 (2016): 123-131.

Venkatasubramanian, Kalpana, and Smita Ramnarain. "Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives from a Pastoral Community in Gujarat, India." Development and Change 49, no. 6 (2018): 1580-1604.

Yadav, S. S., and Rattan Lal. "Vulnerability of women to climate change in arid and semi-arid regions: The case of India and South Asia." Journal of Arid Environments 149 (2018): 4-17.

Xenarios, Stefanos, Krishna Reddy Kakumanu, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, and Gurava Reddy Kotapati. "Gender differentiated impacts from weather extremes: Insight from rural communities in South India." Environmental Development 24 (2017): 156-169.

Gartaula, Hom, Tek B. Sapkota, Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Gokul Prasad, and Lone Badstue. "Gendered impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation options for rice cultivation in India." Climatic Change 163, no. 2 (2020): 1045-1063.

Chanana-Nag, Nitya, and Pramod K. Aggarwal. "Woman in agriculture, and climate risks: hotspots for development." Climatic Change 158, no. 1 (2020): 13-27.

Ravera, Federica, Victoria Reyes-García, Unai Pascual, Adam G. Drucker, David Tarrasón, and Mauricio R. Bellon. "Gendered agrobiodiversity management and adaptation to climate change: differentiated strategies in two marginal rural areas of India." Agriculture and Human Values 36, no. 3 (2019): 455-474.

Neela Rani and Uma Jyothi. 2020. Climate Smart Agriculture - Awareness of Farm Women. Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 9(09): 3509-3516.

Ravera, Federica, Berta Martín-López, Unai Pascual, and Adam Drucker. "The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: A feminist intersectional approach." Ambio 45, no. 3 (2016): 335-351.