Publications

Kosec, Katrina; Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung; Schmidt, Emily; and Song, Jie. 2019. How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147144

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. 2013. How I learned to stop worrying and love the index: Women's empowerment in Agriculture. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153487

Doss, Cheryl R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Pereira, Audrey; and Pradhan, Rajendra. 2020. Women’s empowerment, extended families and male migration in Nepal: Insights from mixed methods analysis. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1977. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134159.

Kosec, Katrina; Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung; Schmidt, Emily; and Song, Jie. 2019. How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1895. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147145

Slavchevska, Vanya; Doss, Cheryl R.; Hillesland, Marya; and Mane, Erdgin. 2021. The impacts of rural outmigration on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nepal, Senegal, and Tajikistan. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2099. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134969.

Theys, Natalie. 2018. Can women’s empowerment increase animal source food consumption in flood prone areas of Bangladesh? IFPRI Discussion Paper 1736. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146547

Sraboni, Esha; and Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2018. Women’s empowerment in agriculture and dietary quality across the life course: Evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1709. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146115

Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth. 2023. Gender, resilience, and food systems. In Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context, eds. Chreistophe Béné and Stephen Devereux. Chapter 8, Pp. 239-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23535-1_8

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2017. Gender and Development Forum Website. IFPRI. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147686

Kosec, Katrina; Song, Jie; Zhao, Hongdi; and Holtemeyer, Brian. 2021. The gendered impacts of income fluctuations on household departure, labor supply, and human capital decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2040. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134563.

Behrman, Julia A.; Karelina, Zhenya; Peterman, Amber; Roy, Shalini; Goh, Amelia; Kovarik, Chiara; Sproule, Kathryn. 2014. GAAP gender and assets toolkit. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149421

de la o Campos, Ana Paula; Warring, Nynne; Brunelli, Chiara; Doss, Cheryl; and Kieran, Caitlin. 2015. Gender and land statistics recent developments in FAO’s gender and land rights database. Rome, Italy: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4862e.pdf

Doss, Cheryl; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2020. Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework. Land Use Policy 99(December 2020): 105080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105080

Ambler, Kate and de Brauw, Alan. 2017. The impacts of cash transfers on women’s empowerment: Learning from Pakistan’s BISP program. Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper 1702. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26272

Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie. 2019. The role of empowerment in agricultural production: evidence from rural households in Niger. Journal of Development Studies 55(4): 565-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1408797

Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Kyle, Jordan; Olken, Benjamin A.; and Sumarto, Sudarno. Tangible information and citizen empowerment: Identification cards and food subsidy programs in Indonesia. Journal of Political Economy. Journal of Political Economy 126(2): 451-491. https://doi.org/10.1086/696226

Blackmore, Ivy; Ringler, Claudia; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2022. Gender gaps in agricultural growth and development: Opportunities for improving gender-responsive programming. Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) Evidence Brief. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135905.

Malapit, Hazel J. 2019. Women in agriculture and the implications for nutrition. In Agriculture for improved nutrition: Seizing the momentum. Chapter 6. Fan, Shenggen; Yosef, Sivan; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (Eds.). Wallingford, UK: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CABI. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146107

Morden, Cheryl, 'Helping Women Respond to the Global Food Crisis', 2009

Quisumbing, Agnes; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Heckert, Jessica; and Seymour, Greg. 2024. Presentations for Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). Presented at IFPRI on February 22, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139606

Mwangi, Maina; Shuto, Kumiko; Mwangi, Peter; Mburu, Mercy; and Mburugu, Sylvia. 2021. Motivating farmers' market-oriented production: Smallholder horticulture empowerment and promotion approach in Kenya. Country Investment Highlights 6. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7026en.

de Brauw, Alan; Kramer, Berber; and Murphy, Mike. 2020. Migration, labor, and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1959. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133936.

Heckert, Jessica; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Myers, Emily; Ramani, Gayathri V.; Faas, Simone; Ferguson, Nathaniel; et al. 2023. Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH). IFPRI Discussion Paper 2207. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137008.

Malabo Montpellier Panel. 2020. Meat, milk and more: Policy innovations to shepherd inclusive and sustainable livestock systems in Africa. Malabo Montpellier Panel Livestock Report. Dakar, Senegal: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and AKADEMIYA2063. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293861.

Kosec, Katrina; Doss, Cheryl; and Slavchevska, Vanya. 2020. Gender and rural transformation. PIM Synthesis Brief October 2020. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134037.

Heckert, Jessica; Myers, Emily; and Malapit, Hazel J. 2020. Developing survey-based measures of gendered freedom of movement for use in studies of agricultural value chains. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1966. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134048.

Aberman, Noora-Lisa; and Roopnaraine, Terry. 2020. To sell or consume? Gendered household decision-making on crop production, consumption, and sale in Malawi. Food Security 12: 433–447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01021-2

Hannan, Anika; Heckert, Jessica; James-Hawkins, Laurie; and Yount, Kathryn M. 2020. Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Maternal and Child Nutrition 16(1): e12871. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12871

Kovarik, Chiara; Malapit, Hazel J.; and Sproule, Kathryn. 2015. Using cognitive pretesting to improve the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey. Selected Poster prepared for presentation at the 2015 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association & Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28, 2015. https://purl.umn.edu/206310

Aku, Aika; Mpenda, Zena; Mpunde, Venance; Bryan, Elizabeth; and Mather, David L. 2023. Opportunities for and Constraints to Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania’s Cashew Value Chain. PRCI Research Paper 22. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/opportunities-for-and-constraints-to-women-s-empowerment-in-tanzania-s-cashew-value-chain