Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?

PurposeThis study adopts three dimensions of women’s empowerment: (1) relative education empowerment, (2) women's autonomy in decision-making and (3) domestic violence to examine the effect of women’s empowerment on household food security in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed the generalised ordered logit model (GOLM) and dominance analysis using a sample of 1,017 households from the seventh round of Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS7).FindingsThe findings from the study revealed that women’s empowerment proxied by relative years of schooling and women's decision-making were important indicators for improving household food security. Further, there exist varying dimensions of women’s empowerment in households, and these dimensions have a significant effect on the state of food security of households.Originality/valueThere are a number of studies on the effect of women's empowerment on food security. However, this study contributes to the literature by examining the varying effects of different dimensions of women’s empowerment on food security. This provides policymakers with a guide that looks at different levels of women’s empowerment and the combinations of women's empowerment dimensions that contribute for reducing food insecurity.

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Review for "Women's empowerment and household food security in Ghana"

10.1108/ijse-05-2020-0328/v2/review2 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Women's Empowerment ◽

Women’S Empowerment ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Household Food

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Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2373183 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Esha Sraboni ◽

Hazel Jean Malapit ◽

Agnes R. Quisumbing ◽

Ahmed Akhter

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Women's Empowerment ◽

Women’S Empowerment

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Three essays on food security, agricultural productivity, and commodity basis

10.32469/10355/88135 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Mohammad Hasan Mobarok

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Security Policy ◽

Agricultural Productivity ◽

Women's Empowerment ◽

Growing Season ◽

Women’S Empowerment ◽

Scale Efficiency ◽

Productivity Change ◽

Efficiency Change ◽

Rice Market

The proposed research is constructed around the theme of food security, agricultural productivity, and commodity basis. The first paper analyzes the impacts of COVID-19 on the Bangladesh rice market within the framework of a partial equilibrium regime-switching model. We provide an initial estimate of the short- and long-run effects of COVID-19 on the Bangladesh rice market and food security sustainability by comparing baseline projections. We analyze the effect of shocks in policies related to trade, public stock, and productivity on rice supply, demand, and food security dimensions. Finally, we assess the effectiveness of these policies to smooth out shocks that may arise from a future pandemic like COVID-19. In the second essay, we analyze the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and Bangladesh rice farm productivity change and its components, which include efficiency change, technological change, and scale efficiency change. We employ the non-parametric Malmquist approach and bootstrap regression method. We find that improvements in women's empowerment in agriculture, specifically enhancing their ability to make independent choices regarding agricultural production, have a statistically significant positive association with productivity change, efficiency change, and technical change. We also find that lowering the gender parity gap is positively related to improving the productivity of the sample farms. In the third essay, we analyze the effect of precipitation variations, namely local, growing season, and regional precipitation, on Missouri corn and soybean basis. We document statistically significant linear and nonlinear basis responses in corn and soybean models for local and growing season precipitation variations. We also find a statistically significant moderating effect of port distance measure on the curvilinearity of the association between regional precipitation and soybean basis. Keywords: food security; policy analysis; women's empowerment; Malmquist; imate change; precipitation

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Effect of Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture on Rural Households Food Security: A Case Study of Oyo State, Nigeria

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal ◽

10.14738/assrj.88.10681 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 600-615

Author(s):

Abiola Oyeboade Ayodeji ◽

Matt Lobley ◽

Ayodeji Jamiu Rauf

Keyword(s):

Logistic Regression ◽

Food Security ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Rural Women ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Women's Empowerment ◽

Women’S Empowerment ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Regression Result ◽

Household Food

Empowering women in agriculture is considered a prerequisite to achieving global food security. However, there exists a research gap due to limited empirical studies to ascertain this, especially in nations like Nigeria where high level of food insecurity and gender inequality is perceived. Therefore, this study examines the effect women’s empowerment in agriculture has on household food security. The study was carried out in Oyo State, Nigeria and a sample size of 100 rural women was drawn using the multi-stage sampling technique. Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire through an interview schedule. Data analysed was done using descriptive statistics, abbreviated women’s empowerment index, food security index and logistic regression model. Findings from this study revealed that more than half (58%) of the women were disempowered and about 59% of the households were food insecure. By disintegrating women’s empowerment into its various domains, this study identified that the major contributors to disempowerment are time(workload), production and resource domain. The logistic regression result shows that women’s empowerment in agriculture positively influences household food security. The study recommends that women must be adequately empowered in order mitigate food insecurity. Finally, the study suggests further research should be carried out to determine the gender parity in agriculture to understand the women’s empowerment in comparison with men’s empowerment in individual households.

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