Publication: IFPRI 2020 Brief on ‘Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health’

Improving the livelihoods and well-being of the rural poor is an important aim of agricultural development, promoted through agricultural intensification and commercialization strategies. But improved agricultural productivity does not necessarily translate into improved health and nutrition, either for producers or consumers. How can standard agricultural development strategies—promoting agricultural intensification, greater linkages to markets, and high-value production—also create positive impacts on health and nutrition? This brief argues that a key element linking these programs to improved outcomes is the dimension of gender roles and gender equity.

Access it here

 

Employment: IFPRI Research Fellow

Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks an Economist to serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow for a two (2) year, fixed term, renewable appointment in its Poverty Health and Nutrition Division (PHND).  This position is based at IFPRI headquarters located in Washington, D.C., but would involve travel to any of the countries in which IFPRI carries out its research. Please note that Postdoctoral Fellow appointments at IFPRI have a maximum term of three (3) years, inclusive of any approved appointment extensions. PHND’s dynamic research programs combine state-of-the-art empirical work, partnerships with developed and developing country researchers, and policy dialogue with senior government officials. The successful candidate will primarily work with our team researching the impact of social protection/welfare programs that have a strong emphasis on human capital formation. In addition, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to explore potential work on other research programs within the Division and Institute such as our work on gender, our research on the linkages between agriculture, health and nutrition, and our work on large scale maternal and child health and nutrition programs.

Resource: New from IFPRI on Gender Summer 2010

IFPRI Discussion Papers
Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Julia Behrman and Ephraim Nkonya on ‘Understanding gender differences in agricultural productivity in Uganda and Nigeria’
 
Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing on ‘Does Social Capital Build Women’s Assets: The long-term impacts of group–based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh.’
 
Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing on ‘Access, Adoption, Diffusion: Understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh.’
 
Peer Reviewed Publications 
Monica Fisher, Jeffrey Reimer and Edward Carr on ‘Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?’ World Development 38.7.
 
Other Media
Purnima Menon on ‘A Food Program that’s not about Food: what India’s starving children don’t need is more blind handouts. What they do need is real social change’in Foreign Policy Magazine
 
Presentations
Agnes Quisumbing and Michelle Adato on ‘Strengthening Development Policy & Practice through Gender Analysis: An Overview of IFPRI Research, 1994-2010.’
 
Agnes Quisumbing on ‘Review of IFPRI’s work on Gender, Nutrition and Food Security in Asia.’
 
Catherine Ragasa on ‘Are we Ignoring a Vital Resource? Reaching African Women Farmers with Productivity-enhancing Technologies.’
 
Nienke Beintema on ‘Female participation in African Agricultural Research and Higher Education: New Insights.’

Amber Peterman and Julia Behrman on ‘Gender Research at IFPRI: Reflections and Strategic Directions.’
 
Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar, Peter Davis & DATA on ‘Does Social Capital Build Women’s Assets’ 

Publication: Does Social Capital Build Women’s Assets?

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men’s and women’s asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh. Data were collected in 1996–97 to examine the effects of the adoption of new vegetable varieties and polyculture fishpond management technologies on household resource allocation, incomes, and nutrition, and a followup survey was conducted ten years later. We make three types of comparisons using nearest neighbor matching, comparing (1) early and late adopters of the technology; (2) NGO members with access to the technology and those without access to the technology; and (3) NGO members vs. non–NGO members. Our results suggest that implementation modalities are important in determining the impact of new technologies on men’s and women’s asset accumulation. Women’s assets increase more relative to men’s when technologies are disseminated through women’s groups. These findings are robust to controls for unobserved household–level characteristics. These results suggest that social capital, as embodied through women’s groups, not only serves as a substitute for physical assets in the short run, but helps to build up women’s asset portfolios in the long run.

http://www.ifpri.org/publication/does-social-capital-build-women-s-assets

Event (DC): U.S. Foreign Policy and Rural Women– A Gender Integration Approach to Diplomacy and Development

Cindy Huang, Feed the Future & Wenchi Yu, U.S. Department of State

Chair: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, IFPRI

Friday, July 16^th, 2010 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm

The U.S. Department of State and USAID have made gender equality a priority in their development and diplomacy efforts. As a flagship initiative, Feed the Future is an example of how this priority is being operationalized through policies and investments targeting rural women.

This seminar will provide an overview of the Obama administration’s new concerted diplomacy and development efforts and their implication for rural women.  The seminar will also explore the new direction of the policy dialogue and what the development community can do to ‘go beyond the rhetoric’ on gender integration, and translate policy commitments into action on the ground.  Particular focus will be placed on the challenges associated with implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

Cindy Huang is Senior Advisor for Feed the Future.  Wenchi Yu is Policy Advisor of the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues in the U.S. Department of State. Rajul Pandya-Lorch is Head of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative and Chief of Staff of the Director General’s Office.

IFPRI is pleased to invite you to the following IFPRI Policy Seminar, which will be held in our fourth floor conference facility located at 2033 K Street, NW (entrance to building on 21^st street between K & L streets). Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues.  Kindly RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee (Tel: 202.862.8107; s.hill-lee@cgiar.org).

Employment: IFPRI Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow (Ethiopia)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader of its country strategy support program in Ethiopia for a two year, fixed-term, renewable appointment. The position will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and reports to the Director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division. The final grade level will be determined by demonstrated experience and track record of publications.

Publications: New IFPRI Discussion Papers

(PHND) – IFPRI DP 00991 – Exploring the Long-term Impact of Development Interventions Within Life-history Narratives in Rural Bangladesh. Peter Davis

http://www.ifpri.org/publication/exploring-long-term-impact-development-interventions-within-life-history-narratives-rura

(KCID) – IFPRI DP 00992 – Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in East Africa. Kristin Davis, Ephraim Nkonya,  Ephraim Nkonya, Edward Kato, Daniel Ayalew Mekonnen, Martins Odendo, Richard Miiro, and Jackson Nkuba

http://www.ifpri.org/publication/impact-farmer-field-schools-agricultural-productivity-and-poverty-east-africa

New Discussion Papers from IFPRI with a Gender Component

Food Security and Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Current State and Future Perspectives Clemens Breisinger, Teunis van Rheenen, Claudia Ringler, Alejandro Nin Pratt, Nicolas Minot, Catherine Aragon, Bingxin Yu, Olivier Ecker, Tingju Zhu

Assessing Food Security in Yemen: An Innovative Integrated, Cross-Sector, and Multilevel Approach Olivier Ecker, Clemens Breisinger, Christen McCool, Xinshen Diao, Jose Funes, Liangzhi You, Bingxin Yu

Long-term Impact of Investments in Early Schooling: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia Subha Mani, John Hoddinott, and John Strauss

China Has Reached the Lewis Turning Point Xiaobo Zhang, Jin Yang, and Shenglin Wang

The Medium-Term Impact of the Primary Education Stipend in Rural Bangladesh Bob Baulch

A Review of Empirical Evidence on Gender Differences in Nonland Agricultural Inputs, Technology, and Services in Developing Countries Amber Peterman, Julia Behrman, and Agnes Quisumbing

Engendering Agricultural Research Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Julia Behrman, Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano, Vicki Wilde, Marco Noordeloos, Catherine Ragasa, Nienke Beintema

Sarpanch Raj: Is the President All Powerful? The Case of Village Councils in India Nethra Palaniswamy

Who has influence in multistakeholder governance systems? Using the net-map method to analyze social networking in watershed management in northern Ghana Eva Schiffer, Frank Hartwich, and Mario Monge

How to overcome the governance challenges of implementing NREGA: Insights from Bihar using process-influence mapping. Katharina Raabe, Regina Birner, Madhushree Sekher, K.G. Gayathridevi, Amrita Shilpi, and Eva Schiffer

Patterns and Trends of Child and Maternal Nutrition Inequalities in Nigeria. Babatunde Omilola

Multimedia: PPT on Gender Research at IFPRI; Strategic Directions and Reflections

Employment: IFPRI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW / RESEARCH FELLOW

Position # 10-139 (N)

Internationally Recruited Position

LOCATION: NEW DELHI, INDIA

REPORTS TO: MARK ROSEGRANT DIVISION DIRECTOR

DIVISION: ENVIRONMENT AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

POSTING DATE: june 10, 2010

CLOSING DATE: JUNE 30, 2010 OR UNTIL FILLED

Job Summary

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow for its program on agricultural science and technology policy in its Environment and Production Technology (EPTD) Division. This is a two year, fixed-term, renewable appointment based in New Delhi, India.

The division’s agricultural science and technology (S&T) policy program seeks to identify policies that favor economic development and the broad-based adoption of productivity-enhancing, poverty-reducing agricultural innovations, and to develop global, regional, and national capacity for S&T policy analysis, design and implementation. Current research areas include, but are not limited to: agricultural research and development; intellectual property rights; seed systems and markets; private investment in pro-poor technology development and delivery; science, technology, and innovation policy; and other topics relating to S&T policy for developing-country agriculture.