Greg Seymour is an Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from American University in May of this year and holds a Masters in Economics from American University. He was a recipient of the 2012-2014 Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships from IFPRI. His research interests include gender analysis, agency/empowerment, development, and time use.
Presentation: Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: Implications for Agricultural Productivity in Rural Bangladesh
Abstract: Using data from the 2011-2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) and drawing on indicators derived from the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), this paper investigates linkages between women's empowerment and agricultural productivity using stochastic frontier analysis. Agricultural productivity is measured in terms of technical efficiency (i.e., the ratio of actual output to the maximum technologically feasible level of output given a set of inputs). Women's empowerment is operationalized in terms of two indicators derived from the WEAI: an aggregate measure of women's empowerment (the uncensored 5DE) and a measure of women's group membership. The results highlight the importance of including women's empowerment, particularly as it relates to group membership, in research on agricultural productivity. First, women’s empowerment is found to be positively associated with higher levels of agricultural productivity for all plots operated by women's households. Thus, positive spillover effects may exist, in terms of access to social capital or credit, that extend the benefits of women's empowerment to all household members. Second, gender gaps in agricultural productivity are not estimated to be significant when based on women's participation in decision-making or ownership status for a particular plot of land, nor when based on female headship.
Gender dynamics in value chains: Beyond production node and a single commodit...IFPRI-PIM
1st webinar in the series summarizing results of the Gender Dynamics in Value Chain project, supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in 2019-2021. More information: https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
This poster was presented by Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (CIFOR) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index – What have we learned?IFPRI-PIM
Webinar #6 in the series of PIM 2017 Monthly Webinars. See abstract here: http://bit.ly/WEAIwebinar.
Presented on November 17, 2017, by Hazel Malapit (IFPRI) and Cheryl Doss (Oxford University)
Measuring empowerment in the abaca, coconut, seaweed and swine value chains i...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Hazel Malapit (IFPRI/A4NH), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Methods for studying gender dynamics in value chains beyond the production no...IFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on Oct. 28, 2021. Presenters: Jessica Leight (IFPRI); Emily Gallagher (CIFOR); and Kate Ambler (IFPRI). More information at https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: From research to actionIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar, 11 November 2021 // Presentation of innovative interventions that can be applied and adapted to enhance extension performance // Summary of agricultural extension research supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Event page (full recording): https://bit.ly/3jRTRWy
See more on www.pim.cgiar.org
Women’s Participation in Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopiaessp2
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) Seminar Series. April 12, 2013. Addis Ababa University
Gender dynamics in value chains: Beyond production node and a single commodit...IFPRI-PIM
1st webinar in the series summarizing results of the Gender Dynamics in Value Chain project, supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in 2019-2021. More information: https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
This poster was presented by Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (CIFOR) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index – What have we learned?IFPRI-PIM
Webinar #6 in the series of PIM 2017 Monthly Webinars. See abstract here: http://bit.ly/WEAIwebinar.
Presented on November 17, 2017, by Hazel Malapit (IFPRI) and Cheryl Doss (Oxford University)
Measuring empowerment in the abaca, coconut, seaweed and swine value chains i...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Hazel Malapit (IFPRI/A4NH), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Methods for studying gender dynamics in value chains beyond the production no...IFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on Oct. 28, 2021. Presenters: Jessica Leight (IFPRI); Emily Gallagher (CIFOR); and Kate Ambler (IFPRI). More information at https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: From research to actionIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar, 11 November 2021 // Presentation of innovative interventions that can be applied and adapted to enhance extension performance // Summary of agricultural extension research supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Event page (full recording): https://bit.ly/3jRTRWy
See more on www.pim.cgiar.org
Women’s Participation in Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopiaessp2
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) Seminar Series. April 12, 2013. Addis Ababa University
Cash transfer programs and intimate partner violence – Lessons from 3 case st...IFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar held on March 28, 2018 by Melissa Hidrobo and Shalini Roy (IFPRI) discusses how cash transfers can reduce intimate partner violence (IPV). The presenters review 3 PIM-funded studies (in Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali) that explore impacts of transfer programs on IPV. A more detailed description and recording of the webinar is available at http://bit.ly/PIMwebinarIPV
Jemimah Njuki, Sarah Eissler, Hazel Malapit, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Elizabeth Bryan, and Agnes Quisumbing
SPECIAL EVENT
UNFSS Science Days Side Event: Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Food Systems
Co-Organized by IFPRI and Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
JUL 6, 2021 - 07:00 AM TO 08:00 AM EDT
Gender in Agriculture for Nutrition and HealthIFPRI-PIM
This poster was presented by Hazel Malapit (A4NH / IFPRI) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Gender indicators for women’s empowerment strategies in water and food securi...Global Water Partnership
Presentation made by Dr Alice M. Bouman-Dentener , President of the Woman for Water Partnership, World Water Week, August 26-31, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
The role of women in production and management of RTB crops in Rwanda and Bur...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Joshua Okonya (CIP/RTB), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Presented by Kathleen Earl Colverson at the Africa RISING Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18-20 August 2014
A trainer's manual" (available at http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33426)
Gender analysis of agricultural innovation systems in East AfricaILRI
Presented by Margaret Najjingo Mangheni and Sarah Cardey at the Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013
Assessing Institutional Innovations to promote women-led informal seed system...IFPRI-PIM
This presentation was given by Ranjitha Puskur (IRRI), as part of the Capacity Development Workshop hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 7-8 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
IFPRI organized a two day workshop on “Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia – Status, Challenges, and Policy Options” to be organized at Committee Room 3, NASC, Pusa, New Delhi on February 17-18, 2015. IFPRI has been conducting research related to agricultural extension reforms in India and collaborating with researchers in other south Asian countries for the past five years through various projects. For understanding extension reforms in India, a major consultation was held in NAARM in 2009 during which policy makers called for development of evidence for spreading extension reform process in India. Since then several research papers have been produced on various aspects of Indian extension system. While they are presented in various forms including several discussion papers, there is a need to pull all the research result together to present it in form that could be used by the policy makers to further guide them in the reform process. South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are going through similar challenges in getting knowledge to farmers. Several experiment shave been conducted to test new approaches to extension by the public, private and NGO sectors. Learning from each country experiences will bring collective understanding and knowledge for the policy makers who are attempting to bring changes in the reform process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a groups of researchers, analysts and policy makers to present the issues, constraints and challenges facing agricultural extension reforms that are being implemented in South Asian countries.
Gender and fish aquaculture: A seven country reviewWorldFish
This presentation, by WorldFish gender researchers Surendran Rajaratnam and Cynthia McDougall, looks at the gendered patterns of access to, and benefits from, small-scale aquaculture within and across seven countries that WorldFish works in (Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Myanmar). The presentation was created for the 6th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries on 3-7 August 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
IFPRI Household Survey, Family Welfare Indicator, Inequality, Household Characteristics, Budget Shares, Education, Employment, Assets, Housing, Credit and Savings, Access to Facilities, and Social Safety Net Participation by Income Groups, by Dr. Akhter Ahmed, IFPRI
Cash transfer programs and intimate partner violence – Lessons from 3 case st...IFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar held on March 28, 2018 by Melissa Hidrobo and Shalini Roy (IFPRI) discusses how cash transfers can reduce intimate partner violence (IPV). The presenters review 3 PIM-funded studies (in Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali) that explore impacts of transfer programs on IPV. A more detailed description and recording of the webinar is available at http://bit.ly/PIMwebinarIPV
Jemimah Njuki, Sarah Eissler, Hazel Malapit, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Elizabeth Bryan, and Agnes Quisumbing
SPECIAL EVENT
UNFSS Science Days Side Event: Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Food Systems
Co-Organized by IFPRI and Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
JUL 6, 2021 - 07:00 AM TO 08:00 AM EDT
Gender in Agriculture for Nutrition and HealthIFPRI-PIM
This poster was presented by Hazel Malapit (A4NH / IFPRI) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Gender indicators for women’s empowerment strategies in water and food securi...Global Water Partnership
Presentation made by Dr Alice M. Bouman-Dentener , President of the Woman for Water Partnership, World Water Week, August 26-31, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
The role of women in production and management of RTB crops in Rwanda and Bur...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Joshua Okonya (CIP/RTB), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Presented by Kathleen Earl Colverson at the Africa RISING Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18-20 August 2014
A trainer's manual" (available at http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33426)
Gender analysis of agricultural innovation systems in East AfricaILRI
Presented by Margaret Najjingo Mangheni and Sarah Cardey at the Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013
Assessing Institutional Innovations to promote women-led informal seed system...IFPRI-PIM
This presentation was given by Ranjitha Puskur (IRRI), as part of the Capacity Development Workshop hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 7-8 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
IFPRI organized a two day workshop on “Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia – Status, Challenges, and Policy Options” to be organized at Committee Room 3, NASC, Pusa, New Delhi on February 17-18, 2015. IFPRI has been conducting research related to agricultural extension reforms in India and collaborating with researchers in other south Asian countries for the past five years through various projects. For understanding extension reforms in India, a major consultation was held in NAARM in 2009 during which policy makers called for development of evidence for spreading extension reform process in India. Since then several research papers have been produced on various aspects of Indian extension system. While they are presented in various forms including several discussion papers, there is a need to pull all the research result together to present it in form that could be used by the policy makers to further guide them in the reform process. South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are going through similar challenges in getting knowledge to farmers. Several experiment shave been conducted to test new approaches to extension by the public, private and NGO sectors. Learning from each country experiences will bring collective understanding and knowledge for the policy makers who are attempting to bring changes in the reform process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a groups of researchers, analysts and policy makers to present the issues, constraints and challenges facing agricultural extension reforms that are being implemented in South Asian countries.
Gender and fish aquaculture: A seven country reviewWorldFish
This presentation, by WorldFish gender researchers Surendran Rajaratnam and Cynthia McDougall, looks at the gendered patterns of access to, and benefits from, small-scale aquaculture within and across seven countries that WorldFish works in (Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Myanmar). The presentation was created for the 6th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries on 3-7 August 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
IFPRI Household Survey, Family Welfare Indicator, Inequality, Household Characteristics, Budget Shares, Education, Employment, Assets, Housing, Credit and Savings, Access to Facilities, and Social Safety Net Participation by Income Groups, by Dr. Akhter Ahmed, IFPRI
Agricultural Technology Potential and the Role of Irrigation, by Dr. Hua Xie and Dr. Claudia Ringler, IFPRI --The Feed the Future Zone in the South and the Rest of Bangladesh:
A Comparison of Food Security Aspects
Results of the 2011-2012 IFPRI Household Survey for the
Policy Research and Strategy Support Program
Presented at the Pulses for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health” on 31 May-1 June 2016 at NASC, New Delhi, India. The conference was jointly organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), TCi of Cornell University (TCi-CU) and Agriculture Today.
Similar to IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar, May 28, 2015: Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: Implications for Agricultural Productivity in Rural Bangladesh
Presented in ACIAR-IFPRI two days Regional Dialogue on Machine Reforms’ for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in South Asia on July 21-22, 2017 in New Delhi, India
PIDE 2014 conference paper 'Synergy or Trade-Off between Agricultural Growth and Nutrition: Women's Work and Care' presented in a Technical Session on 'Poverty Reduction and Development'.
Leading Issues in Extension Advisory Services – Gender Integrationpard0017
Leading Issues in Extension Advisory Services – Gender Integration by Kathleen Earl Colverson, Ph.D., University of Florida.
a presentation about the importance of gender integration.
Presented by James Rao and Isabelle Baltenweck at the Workshop on Impacts of International Agricultural Research: Rigorous Evidence for Policy, Nairobi, 6-8 July 2017
Women's empowerment in aquaculture: Two case studies from IndonesiaWorldFish
This presentation, by WorldFish gender researchers Irna Sari and Cynthia McDougall, explores the participation, drivers and challenges of women in shrimp farming and fish processing in Barru and Sidoarjo districts in Indonesia. It was first presented at the 6th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries on 3-7 August 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
The power of the collective empowers women: Evidence from self-help groups in...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Neha Kumar (International Food Policy Research Institute), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
Scrutinizing the 'feminization of agriculture' hypothesis: Trajectories of la...CIFOR-ICRAF
Kartika Juniwaty, research associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), presented at the Seeds of Change: Gender Equality Through Agricultural Research for Development conference held at the University of Canberra, Australia, on April 2-4, 2019.
This presentation is based on various issues faced by women in agricultural services and the reasons why gender-sensitization schemes are not widely accepted.
Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Phi...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Catherine Ragassa (International Food Policy Research Institute), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
Similar to IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar, May 28, 2015: Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: Implications for Agricultural Productivity in Rural Bangladesh (20)
Improving women’s empowerment survey questions for agricultural value chains:...IFPRI Gender
Monitoring progress toward women’s empowerment requires tools that reflect the underlying concepts that we aim to measure. Cognitive interviewing is a qualitative approach for identifying sources of error in how respondents interpret and formulate responses to surveys. This study aims to identify sources of error in new and existing survey modules included in the WEAI4VC survey to inform survey development. Of the ten modules cognitively interviewed, comprehension errors were found in nine modules, response errors were found in two, and judgement errors in one. Revisions to the questions and survey modules will help better capture respondent’s lived experiences and realities.
Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative researchIFPRI Gender
Overview of qualitative findings from the GAAP2 project and how they relate to the development of the quantitative pro-WEAI survey and how they illuminate quantitative pro-WEAI findings
Understanding Empowerment among Retailers in the Informal Milk Sector in Peri...IFPRI Gender
Developing measures of empowerment is critical for monitoring progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment. We used formative qualitative research to understand empowerment among traders in the informal milk sector in peri-urban Nairobi and adapt the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). We conducted 6 single-sex focus group discussions, 48 in-depth individual interviews, 4 key informant interviews with current and former milk traders. Interviews were translated, transcribed, and thematically coded using deductive and inductive codes. Emic perceptions of empowerment among milk trader emphasized business success and supporting families and communities. Gender-specific markers of empowerment often aligned with traditional gender norms. Only low-value assets are needed to enter the sector, though a lack of large assets limits business growth, especially for women. Obtaining government licenses is sometimes challenging, and licenses help vendors maintain control over assets as authorities may seize them when vendors are found selling without a license. Small-scale credit is common, but access to large-scale credit is difficult to obtain for women, limiting the growth of women’s milk businesses. Business and household incomes are maintained separately, which helps women maintain control of their income. Married women (compared to single women) face more difficulty maintaining control of their income. Participation in savings and credit groups is common and facilitates acquisition of low-value assets. Membership in dairy trader groups, however, is uncommon especially among women, and low involvement in these groups may limit traders’ potential for collective action. We discuss how we use these findings to adapt the pro-WEAI.
IFPRI Gender Breakfast with CARE and WorldFish: Measuring Gender-Transformati...IFPRI Gender
Measuring Gender-Transformative Change in Agriculture: A review of the literature and promising practices
February 16, 2017
Presenters: Steven Cole, Cynthia McDougall, & Afrina Choudhury from WorldFish & the FISH CGIAR Research Program; Emily Hilenbrand & Pranati Mohanraj from CARE USA
Discussant: Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)
Gender inequalities are recognized as both a major driver of poverty and an impediment to agricultural development. Understanding complex processes of social change remains a critical challenge for effective agricultural development programming that advances gender equality. Gender transformative approaches represent a move beyond “business as usual” gender integration in programming towards the creation of an enabling social environment and more equitable formal and informal institutions that expand life choices for women and men.
At the heart of their work, WorldFish (in particular, through its FISH and Aquatic Agricultural Systems cross-cutting research program) and CARE USA (through its global Pathways to Empowerment agriculture program) strive to apply gender transformative approaches (GTA) in designing, implementing, and learning from agricultural development interventions. However, committing to GTA implementation approaches also requires a transformation of measurements and indicators of change, an area of research that remains relatively under-developed in the agriculture sector.
In this webinar, CARE and WorldFish Center jointly present a literature review of promising indicators and tools for measuring gender-transformative change in agriculture, along with some practical case studies and the implications of applying such approaches in practice.
[IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar] Liquid milk: Cash Constraints and the Timing o...IFPRI Gender
Gender Methods Seminar, Dec 13, 2016
Berber Kramer, Research Fellow, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (IFPRI)
Abstract:
This paper analyzes implications of cash constraints for collective marketing, using the case of the Kenyan dairy sector. Collective marketing through for instance cooperatives can improve smallholder farmer income but relies on informal, non-enforceable agreements to sell outputs collectively. Sideselling of output in the local market occurs frequently and is typically attributed to price differences between the market and cooperative. This paper provides an alternative explanation, namely that farmers sell in the local market when they are cash-constrained, since cooperatives defer payments while buyers in local markets pay cash immediately. Building on semi-parametric estimation techniques for panel data, we find robust evidence of this theory. High-frequency high-detail panel data show that farmers sell more in the local market, in particular to buyers who pay cash immediately, in weeks with low cash at hand. Moreover, households cope with health shocks by selling more milk in the local market and less to the cooperative, but only in weeks they are not covered by health insurance. Effects are concentrated among female dairy farmers. For them, increased flexibility in payment and the provision of insurance through agricultural cooperatives can potentially reduce side-selling and improve the performance of collective marketing arrangements.
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Gender, Agriculture, and Environment: From "Zombie Facts" to EvidenceIFPRI Gender
Four "zombie myths" continue to haunt us in the field of gender and agriculture. This presentation looks at the evidence on the feminization of poverty, women's contributions to agriculture, land ownership, and role as environmentalists. Presented by Ruth Meinzen-Dick at Penn State University, June 2016.
For more information about IFPRI's Gender Research, please see our research topic page: http://www.ifpri.org/topic/gender
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[IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar] Gender and Collective Lands: Good practices an...IFPRI Gender
Presentation by Elisa Scalise and Renee Giovarelli
Co-founders of Resource Equity
Global awareness of two land tenure issues--the importance of recognizing and promoting land rights for women and the problem of insecure collective land and resource tenure rights--is rising. The importance of managing collectively held land, both for those who use it and for the environment, has grown increasingly clear. In fact, studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under collective tenure—customary, community-based tenure systems. Securing that tenure is important for protecting the rights of those communities, and has been shown to improve resource management.
However, efforts to secure community land tenure, generally through documenting and registering rights, are still new. In particular, to date, the conversation around securing collective rights to land has paid little attention to women’s rights, and the effects of formalizing the rights of the collective on women are not well studied. Focusing on securing collective land and resource rights without considering gender differences within communities has the potential to severely disadvantage women who are very often socially, economically, and politically excluded.
This report on gender issues and best practices in collective land tenure projects seeks to begin filling this gap, by taking a detailed look at how six collective tenure land projects addressed gender differences. The six case studies include projects in China, Ghana, India, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, and Peru. The case studies are program assessments focusing primarily on how each project approached gender, what the gender-differentiated impacts have been in terms of project participation and benefits, and what lessons can be learned and best practices can be drawn from these projects.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rraj5rz8kip9t70/2016-03-14%2012.01%203_14%2012pm-1pm%20Room%208A%20Gender%20Methods%20Seminar%20with%20Resource%20Equity%20.mp4?dl=0
Building a WEAI for project use: Overview of GAAP2 for pro-WEAIIFPRI Gender
An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) titled Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation, Nancy Johnson of IFPRI discusses how the project level WEAI (pro-WEAI) will be constructed in GAAP2 and talks about the structure of GAAP2 and the different components of the project.
What's measured, matters: Lessons from the WEAI - GAAP2 Inception WorkshopIFPRI Gender
An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) titled Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation, Agnes Quisumbing of IFPRI introduces the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). The presentation covers the scope of the WEAI, its relevance, the indicators that make up the index, its uses and its criticisms.
The Abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI) - GAAP2 Inception WorkshopIFPRI Gender
An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2): Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation Hazel Malapit of IFPRI introduces the Abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI).
Gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agricultural pr...IFPRI Gender
Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI
Presentation on Bangladesh CCAFS work at IFPRI January 2016
Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0
How female (and male) farmers are changing their practices in the face of cha...IFPRI Gender
Patti Kristjanson, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), at IFPRI, January 2016
Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0
Gender and climate change introduction (Elizabeth Bryan)IFPRI Gender
Overview of IFPRI projects, research questions, and conceptual framework (Elizabeth Bryan)
Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0
Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from the WEAI in NigerIFPRI Gender
Abstract:
This paper reports on the WEAI collected for male and female adults in 500 households in the Tahoua region in Niger. Rural households in Niger remain heavily dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. Women play a critical and potentially transformative role in agricultural and rural sector growth but face persistent constraints especially when venturing beyond the cultivation of subsistence crops. Our data reveal that men are more empowered compared to women in all but two domains (autonomy and leisure). This discrepancy in empowerment stems primarily from unequal access to assets, including land, and the difficulties women face in speaking in front of a mixed audience. For both men and women, limited group membership strongly contributes to disempowerment. These findings suggest that increased empowerment could contribute to income diversification if access to credit for women could be enhanced. One way to do this – and further increase empowerment – would be to reactivate the existing institutional infrastructure of producer groups or rotating savings schemes (ROSCAS).
This work was funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in the context of a collaborative agreement with IFPRI to conduct a Trade, Gender Equality and Enterprise Growth Analysis to guide MCC investments in Niger.
Presenter’s Bio:
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2. Background
• Chronic food insecurity in rural Bangladesh
– Evidence suggests increasing women’s control
over resources has positive effects on a number
of important development outcomes
• Hoddinott and Haddad (1995)
• In rural Bangladesh, greater engagement
within the agricultural sector may be one way
for women to gain greater control over
resources
– Key part of what it means for women in rural
Bangladesh to be empowered
3. Social Context
• Social norms limit
women’s
opportunities to take
on larger roles in
agriculture
– Traditional gender
division of labor
• Social boundaries are not absolute
– Recent increases in women’s participation in
agricultural labor force
5. Research Questions
1. Do gender gaps in agricultural productivity exist in rural
Bangladesh?
– Female-inclusive vs. male-exclusive
• Based on plot ownership and decision-making
6. Research Questions
1. Do gender gaps in agricultural productivity exist in rural
Bangladesh?
– Female-inclusive vs. male-exclusive
• Based on plot ownership and decision-making
2. What is the relationship between women’s
empowerment and agricultural productivity in rural
Bangladesh?
7. Research Questions
1. Do gender gaps in agricultural productivity exist in rural
Bangladesh?
– Female-inclusive vs. male-exclusive
• Based on plot ownership and decision-making
2. What is the relationship between women’s
empowerment and agricultural productivity in rural
Bangladesh?
– Empowerment score
• Weighted sum of the 10 indicators comprising the five domains of
empowerment (5DE) component of the Women’s Empowerment in
Agriculture Index (WEAI)
– Group membership
• Primary female decision-maker belongs to a credit, microfinance, or
informal savings group
8. Linking Women’s Empowerment to
Agricultural Productivity
• Increases in social capital
– Means of gaining information about new
technologies and farming practices
– Social networks that may be accessed to smooth
consumption in times of hardship or acquire
agricultural inputs
• Increases in access to credit
– Greater ability to invest in infrastructure and to
smooth consumption or production shocks
• Increases in human capital and access to
productive resources
9. Gender Differences in Agricultural
Productivity
Technical efficiency
Ratio of actual output
to the maximum
technologically
feasible level of
output
0 Inputs, X
Output, Y
Production frontier,
Y=f(X)
C
A
Male-exclusive
Female-
inclusive
B
10. Existing Literature
• Tends to focus on sub-Saharan Africa
– Joint cultivation makes it more difficult to study gender
differences in agricultural productivity in South Asia
• Fails to consider women’s empowerment
• Methodological problems
– Female headship as an indicator of women’s role in
farm management
– Simultaneity of productivity and input choice
11. Stochastic Frontier Analysis
• Stochastic frontier production function
ln 𝑦 = 𝑋′
𝛽 + 𝑣 − 𝑢
– 𝑦 : output (value of crops produced)
– 𝑋 : vector of inputs (capital, land, labor, other inputs)
– Dual error term
• 𝑣 : exogenous shocks beyond farmers’ control and
measurement error
• 𝑢 : technical inefficiency
• Involves the joint estimation of two models
– Production frontier
– Technical inefficiency model
12. Data
• 2011-2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household
Survey (BIHS)
• Only households engaged in crop agriculture
– 3,303 households
– 4,622 plots of land
– 3 cropping seasons
• Total sample size: 7,045 plot-level, season-
specific observations
13. Primary Variables of Interest
Control variables: age, education, share of working-age men/women,
agricultural extension, non-agricultural income share, tenancy status, primary
crop, administrative division, season
Variable Description Mean
Empowerment score
(uncensored 5DE)
Weighted sum of ten indicators comprising
the 5DE component of the WEAI (for the
primary female decision-maker)
0.66
Group membership Primary female decision-maker belongs to a
credit, microfinance, or informal savings
group
0.26
Female-inclusive
ownership
Primary female decision-maker is sole or
joint owner of plot
0.04
Female-inclusive
decision-making
Primary female decision-maker participates
in any decision relating to agricultural
production on plot
0.11
14. Results
• No evidence of
gender gaps in
technical efficiency
– Female-inclusive plots
are equally as efficient
as male-exclusive
plots
Tech. Efficiency
Variable Coef.
Age -0.085***
Age2/100 0.100***
Primary education 0.024
> Primary education -0.148*
Female-headed household -0.131
Share of working-age women 0.008
Share of working-age men 0.954***
Extension visits 0.263***
Extension visits2 -0.045**
Non-agricultural income share -0.406***
Tenancy status 0.033
Female-inclusive ownership -0.123
Female-inclusive decision-making
0.104
Crop, Division, Season Dummies Yes
N 7,045
Source: 2011-2012 BIHS, Author’s calculations
15. Results
• Empowerment score
and group membership
both associated with
higher levels of technical
efficiency
• Does relationship differ
for female-inclusive
plots and male-exclusive
plots?
– No significant
evidence of
interaction effects
(results not shown)
• Empowerment score
and group membership
associated with higher
levels of technical
efficiency for ALL plots
operated by household
Tech.
efficiency
Tech.
efficiency
Variable Coef. Coef.
Age -0.089*** -0.088***
Age2/100 0.104*** 0.103
Primary education 0.023 0.028
> Primary education -0.144* -0.140*
Female-headed household -0.124 -0.131
Share of working-age women
0.009 0.008
Share of working-age men 0.950*** 0.948***
Extension visits 0.264*** 0.260***
Extension visits2 -0.045** -0.044
Non-agricultural income share
-0.411*** -0.433***
Tenancy status 0.028 0.026
Female-inclusive ownership -0.125 -0.130
Female-inclusive decision-
making
0.070 0.091
Empowerment score 0.314** -
Group membership - 0.130**
Crop, Division, Season
Dummies
Yes Yes
16. Extension
• Group membership may not reflect active
participation within a group
Variable Description Mean
Group attendance Number of meetings primary female decision-
maker attended out of last five
0.56
Group input Primary female decision-maker has “some” say in
group decisions
0.04
Group leadership Primary female decision-maker has held a
leadership position
0.02
• Distinction between group membership and
participation among women in rural Bangladesh
appears relevant
17. Extended Results
• Not the quantity, but the
quality of group
membership that matters
most for technical
efficiency
Tech. Efficiency
Variable Coef.
Age -0.090***
Age2/100 0.105***
Primary education 0.020
> Primary education -0.147*
Female-headed household -0.128
Share of working-age women 0.007
Share of working-age men 0.982***
Extension visits 0.260***
Extension visits2 -0.044**
Non-agricultural income share -0.436***
Tenancy status 0.021
Female-inclusive ownership -0.125
Female-inclusive decision-making 0.097
Group membership 0.059
Group attendance 0.006
Group input 0.245
Group leadership 0.423*
Crop, Division, Season Dummies Yes
N 7,045
Source: 2011-2012 BIHS, Author’s calculations
18. Conclusions
• Important to include women's empowerment in
research on agricultural productivity
• No evidence of gender productivity gaps
• Women’s empowerment helps everyone!
– Positive spillover effects may exist that extend
benefits to other household members
– Promising channel for addressing food insecurity and
promoting higher overall levels of agricultural
productivity
Begin with background on women and agriculture in rural Bangladesh.
Despite steady growth in agricultural production over the past 40 years, large portions of the population in Bangladesh, particularly women and children, continue to struggle against chronic food insecurity. How to address this?
Hoddinott and Haddad (1995): Increasing women’s share of cash income significantly increases the share of the household budget allocated to food.
Indeed, this is a key part of what it means for women in rural Bangladesh to be “empowered.” To paraphrase Naila Kabeer’s definition of empowerment: Greater engagement in agriculture increases women’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where that ability was previously denied.
Significant obstacles exist to women’s empowerment in Bangladesh:
Traditional gender division of labor: women spend the vast majority of their time in domestic work (e.g., preparing meals for her family, caring for her children, cleaning the family’s dwelling, etc.) and men spend most of their time in agricultural labor outside of the home.
This means that women’s agricultural labor contributions tend to be limited to tasks that can be accomplished within or near their homesteads (e.g., post-harvest activities such as drying, sorting, and packaging of crops).
Women in Bangladesh, particularly those from poorer households, are increasingly willing to take up socially “unacceptable” work, things like engaging in agricultural wage labor alongside men.
Specifically, I look at gender gaps in terms of women’s role in the management of agricultural plots of land operated by their households. I define plots as either female-inclusive or male-exclusive, based on women’s participation in decision-making and ownership for a plot of land.
Specifically, I look at gender gaps in terms of women’s role in the management of agricultural plots of land operated by their households. I define plots as either female-inclusive or male-exclusive, based on women’s participation in decision-making and ownership for a plot of land.
I operationalize women’s empowerment in two ways:
Due to some econometric concerns: primarily the possibility that the empowerment score may be endogenous with production. I also operationalize women’s empowerment in terms of one of the indicators that make up the WEAI that is less likely to be endogenous: group membership.
Specifically, membership in credit, microfinance, and informal savings group.
I operationalize women’s empowerment in two ways:
Due to some econometric concerns: primarily the possibility that the empowerment score may be endogenous with production. I also operationalize women’s empowerment in terms of one of the indicators that make up the WEAI that is less likely to be endogenous: group membership.
Specifically, membership in credit, microfinance, and informal savings group.
I’ll talk about why I choose all of these indicators and provide greater details on their definitions later on in the presentation.
So why might we expect women’s empowerment to be associated with increased agricultural productivity? There are a number of channels to consider.
Social capital: social relationships that women may develop from belonging to a group may provide them with a means of gaining access to information about new technologies and farming practices that they might otherwise be excluded from. In times of hardship, social relationship may be accessed to acquire needed resources or other assistance.
Access to credit: increased access to credit allows for a greater ability to invest in infrastructure---improvement on plots, such as the building of mechanized irrigation---and offers protection against consumption and production shocks.
I frame the analysis of my questions in terms of gender differences in agricultural productivity. I demonstrate what that means in this slide.
There are a number of different ways to measure agricultural productivity…
… I’ve populated the space below the production frontier with observations for a hypothetical sample of exclusively male-managed farms and female-inclusive farms. Farms A, B, and C produce very different levels of output, while using the same level of input. This makes it very easy to compare the farms in terms of technical efficiency: we simply look at how far each is below the production frontier. Clearly, Farm A is more efficient than Farm B which is more efficient than Farm C. When we talk about gender productivity gaps, we’re referring to the gaps between Farms A and B and between Farms A and C.
In practice, this is the sort of distribution often seen in less developed countries. Female-managed farms achieving lower levels of technical efficiency than male-managed farms, often because of a reliance on traditional technologies, due to women’s limited access to physical and human capital.
Focus on Bangladesh; whereas the literature tends to be dominated by studies on sub-Saharan Africa. Joint cultivation is the norm in South Asia (and Bangladesh): men and women tend to specialize in different agricultural activities according to traditional gender norms---makes it more difficult to attribute managerial responsibility to a single household member. This is why in my study I tend to focus on women’s joint participation in plot management
Many studies also fail to properly deal with the problem of simultaneity of productivity and input choice. Since both the quantities of output and variable inputs are simultaneously determined by the conditions of profit maximization, single-equation estimation of production functions can produce inconsistent parameter estimates unless proper steps are taken. For this reason, in my essay I use stochastic frontier analysis, which solves the simultaneity problem through specific distributional assumptions.
A production frontier is estimated based on the levels of output and input associated with each plot within the sample. This gives us an estimate of the level of technical inefficiency achieved on each plot. (How far it falls below the production frontier.)
The second part of the model involves the estimation of a technical inefficiency function. Using the information on technical inefficiency obtained from the production frontier, technical inefficiency is modeled as a “function” of a set of exogenous variables. This generates parameter estimates which allow us to evaluate the relationship of each variable to technical inefficiency. The results that I’ll discuss later come from this portion of the model.
For those of you familiar with the BIHS, I use the entire sample (including the over-sampling in the FTF zone-of-influence) to maximize my sample size.
Due to econometric concerns about the possibility of the empowerment score being endogenous (which I won’t go into now, but I’m more than happy to come back to later)…
Includes decisions about the type of crop to plant, the use of inputs, the marketing of the crop, and the spending of revenue generated by the plot.
Women much more likely to be included in decision-making than in ownership (though both remain very rare among plots in Bangladesh)
I also include a standard set of control variables based on other stochastic frontier analyses conducted on Bangladesh.
This isn’t quite as depressing as it sounds. Although it does imply that there may not be any benefit (in terms of technical efficiency) associated with women’s inclusion in plot management, that’s not the same as saying there’s no benefit at all to women’s inclusion.
Indeed, as we talked about at the beginning of the presentation, simply being more engaged in agriculture is empowering for women in rural Bangladesh and may improves women’s resource position within the household.
Do these relationships depend on the primary female decision-maker being directly involved in plot management (in terms of female-inclusive ownership and decision-making)? In other words, are the effects of the empowerment score and group membership (on technical efficiency) conditioned by female-inclusive ownership and decision-making?
To answer this question…I re-estimate both models and include a full spectrum of interaction effects (between empowerment indicators and plot management indicators).
KEY FINDING: Women’s empowerment benefits not only women but also other member of their households.
Positive spillover effects: if we think about group membership, information gained from being a member of a group may be shared among household members or credit obtained through a group might be used to fund household consumption and production.
The accumulation of social capital may depend on actively participating, rather than just belonging to a group---a woman who only rarely attends meetings or tends not to engage in group discussions or activities may not develop the same social relationships as a more active participant.
In all cases these again refer to credit, microfinance, or informal savings group
Compared to the 26% of women in the sample who belong to a credit, microfinance, or informal savings group…
Attendance also appears low---roughly half of women have attended only one of or have attended none of the last five meetings.
Thus, it may be that the relationship we observe between group membership and technical efficiency is, in fact, driven by the relationship of group leadership and technical efficiency.
Though this is a difficult assertion to make given the very small number of women in leadership positions.
Larger implication makes this an interesting subject for future research…
Also important to be aware that women’s contributions to agricultural production may not always be immediately visible and that to find them you may need to look beyond indicators of household headship or even beyond plot ownership and decision-making. These indicators only told part of the story.
It was only when I brought women’s empowerment into the picture, that women’s real contributions became evident.
KEY FINDING: My results suggest that women’s empowerment may benefit not only women but also other member of their households (at least in terms of agricultural productivity).