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

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
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

scholarly journals Women’s empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0255589
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hasan Mobarok ◽  
Theodoros Skevas ◽  
Wyatt Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Technical Change ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Specific Productivity ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Productivity Change ◽  
Efficiency Change ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Farm Productivity

Using productivity change as a measure of farm economic performance, we analyze the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and farm productivity change and its components, which include efficiency change, technological change, and scale efficiency change. A non-parametric Malmquist approach is used to measure farm specific productivity change and its decomposition. We use a bootstrap regression to analyze factors that cause differences in productivity change and its components, testing, in particular, the role women’s empowerment plays. The empirical application focuses on a sample of Bangladesh rice farms over the crop cultivation period 2011 and 2014. Results suggest that improvements in women’s empowerment in agriculture were associated with higher levels of productivity change, efficiency change, and technical change, while they had no impact on scale efficiency change. We find that empowering women, specifically, improving their ability to make independent choices regarding agricultural production had 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 with improving productivity of the sample farms.

Women’s empowerment and their experience to food security in rural Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wei ◽  
Tanwne Sarker ◽  
Rana Roy ◽  
Apurbo Sarkar ◽  
Md. Ghulam Rabbany
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Rural Bangladesh

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

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 11-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esha Sraboni ◽  
Hazel J. Malapit ◽  
Agnes R. Quisumbing ◽  
Akhter U. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment

scholarly journals Hitting the target and missing the point? On the risks of measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Tavenner ◽  
Todd A. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Scientific Accuracy ◽  
International Agricultural Development

AbstractThere is a strong impetus in international agricultural development to close ‘gender gaps’ in agricultural productivity. The goal of empowering women is often framed as the solution to closing these gaps, stimulating the proliferation of new indicators and instruments for the targeting, measurement, and tracking of programmatic goals in research for agricultural development. Despite these advances, current measurements and indices remain too simplified in terms of unit and scope of analysis, as well as being fundamentally flawed in how they aim to capture the relevance of ‘gender’ in diverse local contexts. We propose that the impulse to apply exogenously defined and weakly validated ‘women’s empowerment’ measures to diverse local contexts risks prioritizing practical expedience over scientific accuracy and societal relevance. Furthermore, the application of such measures risks creating the impression that programmatic “gender targets” are being achieved, while simultaneously undermining substantive gender transformative goals. The authors conclude that a different methodological approach grounded in participatory and qualitative methods is needed to create more meaningful metrics for assessing progress towards women’s empowerment.

Women's empowerment and household food security in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Essilfie ◽  
Joshua Sebu ◽  
Samuel Kobina Annim ◽  
Emmanuel Ekow Asmah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Different Dimensions

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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