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    1. Are farmers empowered? The role of empowerment in farmer decision making about weed and invertebrate management

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Major, Jason (author), Grant, Will (author), and Stocklmayer, Sue (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    Australia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D11649
    Journal Title:
    Rural Extension and Information Systems Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    14(1) : 1-10
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    10 pages., Researchers investigated empowerment in the context of two strategies, Integrated Weed Management and Integrated Pest Management. Findings suggested: "With the rise of chemical resistance, the agricultural industry has placed considerable emphasis on the need to accelerate and achieve farmer adoption if IWM and IPM, but our evidence suggests that greater emphasis should be given to understanding the socio-cultural factors that affect farmer decision making. Farmer empowerment emerged as a core concept from the data."

    2. Can women's self‐help groups improve access to information, decision‐making, and agricultural practices? The Indian case

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Raghunathan, Kalyani (author), Kannan, Samyuktha (author), and Quisumbing, Agnes R. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-08
    Published:
    Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10822
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural Economics
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    14 pages., via online journal,, Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers’ access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of crops and improved methods of cultivation. In India, however, the coverage of agricultural extension workers and the relevance of extension advice is poor. We investigate whether a women's self‐help group (SHG) platform could be an effective way of improving access to information, women's empowerment in agriculture, agricultural practices, and production diversity. We use cross‐sectional data on close to 1,000 women from five states in India and employ nearest‐neighbor matching models to match SHG and non‐SHG women along a range of observed characteristics. We find that participation in an SHG increases women's access to information and their participation in some agricultural decisions, but has limited impact on agricultural practices or outcomes, possibly due to financial constraints, social norms, and women's domestic responsibilities. SHGs need to go beyond provision of information to changing the dynamics around women's participation in agriculture to effectively translate knowledge into practice.

    3. Economic benefits of empowering women in agriculture: assumptions and evidence

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Anderson, C. Leigh (author), Reynolds, Travis W. (author), Biscaye, Pierre (author), Patwardhan, Vedavati (author), and Schmidt, Carly (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-02
    Published:
    United States: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12259
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Development Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 57 Issue 2
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    16 pages, Systematic reviews and meta-analyses generally focus on intervention impacts or outcomes. Less common, however, are reviews of the assumptions and theory underlying the pathways between intervention and outcome. We consider the hypothetical case for interventions to empower female farmers, either by prioritising women for new investments or re-allocating existing resources. Empowerment is defined as increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income. We hypothesise two avenues through which productivity or health benefits might arise: (i) eliminating female-male differences in, e.g. input access; or (ii) leveraging gendered risk, time, and social preferences leading women to differentially allocate resources. A review of evidence highlights the extent of support for the baseline, behaviour change, and economic benefit assumptions behind these hypothesised avenues. Findings suggest returns to investing in female farmers could be significant in various contexts but estimates of economic returns to empowering women in agriculture remain limited.

    4. Women farmer's participation and empowerment to support family food self sufficiency

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Suraningsih, Maya Safrina (author), Hubeis, Aida Vitayala S. (author), Sadono, Dwi (author), Susanto, Djoko (author), and Saleh, Amiruddin (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2016-12-30
    Published:
    Indonesia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08775
    Journal Title:
    Mimbar
    Journal Title Details:
    32(2) : 319-329