The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) are cooperating to develop a Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to measure women’s roles and engagement in the agriculture sector.
Women are a primary focus of the US Government Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative – a global hunger and food security initiative that aims to reduce poverty and under-nutrition. A principal objective of FTF is to “promote inclusive agricultural sector growth”. FTF aims to improve women’s roles and engagement throughout the various areas of the agriculture sector, as it grows in both quantity and quality, and to “operationalize” that improvement by measuring change in the following domains:
· Women’s role in household decision making around agricultural production
· Women’s access to productive capital
· Women’s control of income
· Women’s individual leadership and influence in the community
· Women’s time allocations.
The public version is expected to be available in March 2012. (For more information on the method, see http://www.ophi.org.uk/research/multidimensional-poverty/alkire-foster-m…).
About the Index partners:
USAID
http://www.usaid.gov/
http://www.usaid.gov/
Feed the Future
http://www.feedthefuture.gov/
http://www.feedthefuture.gov/
IFPRI
http://www.ifpri.org/
http://www.ifpri.org/
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