Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 705-725

  Quisumbing, Agnes R ^a   Rubin, Deborah ^b   Manfre, Cristina ^b   Waithanji, Elizabeth ^c   van den Bold, Mara ^a   Olney, Deanna ^a   Johnson, Nancy ^a   Meinzen Dick, Ruth ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Nutrition and Policy Consultants   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Agricultural development projects; Assets; Food security; Gender; Impact evaluation; Value chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945487761     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: 15728366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-015-9587-x     Document Type: Article

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