When we talk about women’s empowerment, it is difficult to grasp what we actually mean. Does it refer to women’s attitudes towards gender violence? Or does it mean women’s economic independence and decision-making power? Does it perhaps imply access to productive resources, education, and other opportunities? Or might it mean control over time? Or does […] Source: Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
Great Expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by several IFPRI researchers including Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Alan de Brauw, and Nicholas Minot, who examined the impact of Ethiopia's Wheat Initiative on farmers' yields to understand h... Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
TMRI Sustainability of Impacts Study
Safety nets can be very effective at improving food security and reducing poverty, but have had limited or mixed effects on improving nutrition. This begs the question: is there something other than resources that's needed to improve child nutrition, particularly to accelerate reductions in child stunting? IFPRI designed and WFP implemented the Transfer Modality Research […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
ASTI Successes: country initiatives in ownership and institutionalization
A number of countries are taking initiative with ASTI data collection and outreach--institutionalizing the data collection process, disseminating the results, and embedding the data in national policy and decision-making platforms to maximize their use and accessibility. Recent activities in India, Colombia, and Ghana highlight some of these successes. In India, the National Academy of Agricultural […] Source: Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators
Mapping studies show use of—and need for—ASTI evidence
African policymakers are largely unaware of the ASTI program, but recognize the importance of evidence for agricultural research policy decisions, and may benefit from it through exchanges with research, civil society, donor, and international organizations. That is one finding from a series of national stakeholder mapping studies recently completed in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania to […] Source: Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators
