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Focusing on Women Works: Research on Improving Micronutrient Status through Food-Based Interventions

Focusing on Women Works: Research on Improving Micronutrient Status through Food-Based Interventions

Charlotte Johnson-Welch
1999

This report synthesizes the results of five community-based interventions that aimed to improve the micronutrient status of women and children by analyzing the intra-household dynamics that contribute to nutrition distribution in the household.

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Enhancing Nutrition Results

Enhancing Nutrition Results
The Case for a Women's Resources Approach

Kathleen M. Kurz, Charlotte Johnson-Welch
2000

Women often are the primary caregivers in their families. How can their ability to carry out their roles be strengthened so they can improve and sustain the nutritional status of their family members? This report from ICRW's archives shows that the key to achieving better family nutrition is to ensure that women have the resources they need to carry out their primary caretaker role, including the decision-making authority to use those resources to the family's optimal benefit.

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Bridging the Gender Gap in Agricultural Extension

Bridging the Gender Gap in Agricultural Extension

Marguerite Berger, Virginia DeLancey, Amy Mellencamp
1985

ICRW has examined the role of women in increasing agricultural production and sustainably managing natural resources for more than 20 years. These historic publications present ICRW’s groundbreaking research and analysis in examining the role of women as economic agents of change in agriculture systems.

Bridging the Gender Gap in Agricultural Extension discusses how agriculture extension projects could reach women farmers in a cost-effective manner.

See other historical agriculture publications:
Gender in Community Development and Resource Management
Women, Population and the Environment
Women, Land and Sustainable Development
Women in Agriculture: What Development Can Do

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Following Through on Gender Integration in Agriculture

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ICRW is working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners to strengthen their attention to gender in various agricultural projects in Africa and South Asia. ICRW reviews project designs and advises the foundation on how to address the distinct issues that affect the work of women and men farmers. ICRW also guides implementing organizations on ways to improve outreach to women farmers.

For example, ICRW provided recommendations to TechnoServe in Kenya and Tanzania in an effort to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers by improving the quality of their coffee in order to sell it in global markets. ICRW’s recommendations included approaches to guarantee that women benefit from the program along with men - such as having full membership in farmers’ cooperatives - increasing their leadership opportunities, and receiving payment for their labor on the coffee crop.

Duration: 
2007 - 2010
Location(s): 
Kenya
Location(s): 
Tanzania

Reaching Women Cotton Farmers

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ICRW worked with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), the German development agency, and its private sector partners with helping cotton farmers in sub-Saharan Africa increase their yields and improve the quality of their crops. ICRW assessed all aspects of the project to ensure that men and women equally benefit from project services, and that women are paid for their labor.

By collaborating with private ginning companies and cotton producer associations, the project is providing farmers access to resources such as fertilizer and pesticides, as well as farming and business training to help increase the value of their returns from cotton. Producing higher quality cotton will allow farmers to sell their crop to new and broader markets.

Duration: 
2009 - 2010
Location(s): 
Benin
Location(s): 
Burkina Faso
Location(s): 
Ivory Coast
Location(s): 
Malawi
Location(s): 
Uganda
Location(s): 
Zambia

Agriculture & Food Security

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ICRW President to Discuss Women’s Role in Agriculture during World Food Prize Events

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Thu, 10/15/2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), will address women’s role in agriculture, food security and health at 9:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 16 during the 2009 Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa.

Half of the world’s food, and between 60 and 80 percent of food crops in developing countries, are produced by women. Yet few own the land they farm or reap the rewards of their work. According to Rao Gupta, women need to be viewed not just as helpers, but “farmers in their own right and as key economic agents who contribute to local, national and global food security and to agricultural and economic growth,” she wrote in an Oct. 11 Des Moines Register column.

During the Friday symposium, Rao Gupta and other panelists are expected to address women farmers’ contributions and challenges as well as how they can help produce better quality and more widely available food.

Media Contact: 
Jeannie Bunton, 202.742.1316, Jbunton@icrw.org
Mission Statement: 

ICRW's mission is to empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty in the developing world. To accomplish this, ICRW works with partners to conduct empirical research, build capacity and advocate for evidence-based, practical ways to change policies and programs.

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