Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) will develop a Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index to measure women's roles and engagement in the agriculture sector.
The Index will measure change in the following domains – women's role in: decision making on agricultural production, access to productive capital, control of income, individual leadership and influence in the community, and time allocation. It will be used by USAID Washington and Missions for both performance monitoring and impact evaluation purposes.
Check out http://www.ifpri.org/blog/women-s-empowerment-agriculture-index for more information.
This article is part of the Crop Biotech Update, a weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA)
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