Women play a significant role in smallholder production system in Pakistan. They actively participate in various activities relating to crop and livestock production in addition to conducting their routine domestic duties often working non-stop from dawn to dusk. But the extent of their participation varies from region to region. The aim of this field survey was to investigate the involvement o...

Annie’s Project: Farming in New Jersey’s Cities and the Urban Fringe focused on following five areas of risk identified by US Department Agriculture Economic Research Service: financial, production, marketing/price, legal/institutional, human/personnel. Additional education regarding urban farming topics included securing suitable land, dealing with contaminated soils alternative growing medias...

THE CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES OF WOMEN'S LIVES: SHIFTING FAMILIES...4 WOMEN'S WORK: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF HIDDEN COSTS...7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD CARE: A CALL FOR INNOVATION...9 PROGRAMMATIC ISSUES...12 THE NEED FOR A RANGE OF OPTIONS...13 CHILD DEVELOPMENT...18 POLICY AND PROGRAMME IMPLICATIONS: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED APPROACH...21 PROGRAMMES IN BRIEF: THE INTERSECTING NEEDS OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDRE...

Should agricultural development programs target women in order to increase productivity? This paper reviews the extensive literature on men’s and women’s relative productivity in agriculture, most of which concludes that controlling for access to inputs, plot and farmer characateristics, there are little or no gender gaps in productivity. In addition, the paper identifies the many challenges to...

This study describes the dynamics of intrauterine device (IUD) use in Vietnam and implications for family planning services. A retrospective study was conducted among women who received IUD services in 2006-2009 at six commune health stations in three provinces. Women were interviewed about IUD use and switching behaviors. Of 1316 participants, 12.1% had discontinued IUD use at 12 months after ...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...