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Women’s empowerment and crop diversification in Bangladesh: A possible pathway to climate change adaptation and better nutrition [1]

This paper connects three different areas of inquiry - climate change, gender and nutrition – by exploring whether women’s empowerment in agricultural production leads to increased diversification in the use of farmland. Specifically, use a series of econometric techniques to evaluate whether there is sufficient evidence to claim that a higher levels of empowerment lead to greater diversity in the allocation of farmland to agricultural crops. Results reveal that indeed some aspects of women empowerment, but not all, lead to a more diversified use of farmland and to a transition for cereal production to other uses like vegetables and fruits. These findings provide some possible pathways for gender-sensitive interventions that promote crop diversity as a risk management tool and as a way to improve the availability of nutritious crops.
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Publication Date: 
01/06/2019
Alessandro De Pinto [3], Greg Seymour [4], Elizabeth Bryan [5], Prapti Bhandari [6]
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [7]
Tags:
Women [8], Agriculture [9], Climate Change [10], Climate Adaptation [11], Nutrition [12], Bangladesh [13], Crops [14]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/women%E2%80%99s-empowerment-and-crop-diversification-bangladesh-possible-pathway-climate

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[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Women empowerment and crop diversification in Bangladesh.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alessandro-de-pinto
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/greg-seymour
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/elizabeth-bryan
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/prapti-bhandari
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-food-policy-research-institute-ifpri
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-adaptation
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nutrition
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/crops