Factors Affecting Women Labor Utilization in Staple Crops Value Chains Activities in Southeast Nigeria
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This paper identified socioeconomic, institutional and technological factors affecting women labor utilization in an on-farm and less rewarding staple crop value chain activities such as clearing, cultivation, planting and weeding compared to more rewarding off-farm post-harvest activities that facilitate input and output market such as threshing, shelling, processing, storage and marketing using data collected from 400 randomly selected women farmers in southeast Nigeria during 2019/20 crop year.
How women researchers in EfD Nigeria are changing the society
EfD Nigeria parades ten women research fellows who are working very hard to improve the inclusion and participation of women in different aspects of Nigerian society. Meet some of them and learn what…
Poverty and gender considerations in marine spatial planning
Summary
The report provides a framework for ensuring that marine spatial planning (MSP) does not worsen poverty and gender inequality in developing countries, and that potentially marginalised groups are appropriately considered and engaged in the MSP process.
This report provides guidelines for the steps of a more inclusive MSP process.
The findings indicate that a scorecard can be used to guide the social sustainability of the MSP process. The criteria in the scorecard include:
EfD Central America researcher talks about climate change in ECO TV
Bárbara Viguera, a junior researcher of EfD Central America, was interviewed by the journalist Lisseth Alva about the impacts of climate change, during the one-hour television program called ECO TV…
IDRC met with EfD to finalize research agenda for the Global South
EfD, along with partners, has been working intensely for a year and a half to develop a research agenda that will support a low-carbon transition in the Global South. Bhim Adhikari, Senior Program…
