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Happy 10th Anniversary WEAI! It has been 10 years since IFPRI and partners launched the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): the first-ever direct measure of women’s empowerment and inclusion in agriculture. Since the initial WEAI release in 2012, several different versions of the WEAI have been developed and WEAI-based metrics have been used by over 230 organizations across 58 countries.
For International Women’s Day earlier this week, the WEAI team shared 10 key lessons learned during more than a decade of work developing and applying different versions of the WEAI in diverse contexts. Check out the lessons on IFPRI’s Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook!
WEAI users are also having their say this week. In a series of testimonial videos, representatives from IFAD, PRADAN, Grameen Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, and other organizations reflect on their first-hand experiences using the tool. And if you’re wondering how you could utilize WEAI in your work, take our quiz to see which WEAI is right for you.
For more information on WEAI, visit the website, watch our recent webinar or read the event blog, and register for the March 24 WEAI side event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women!
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Repercussions from the invasion of Ukraine are creating significant additional pressures on already-rising food and fertilizer prices. IFPRI is following developments in price trends closely.
Our researchers are publishing evidence-based analysis on the impacts for global food security, and we have launched a new Policy Seminar Series to discuss the topic.
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The Inside (S)Coop: Elodie Becquey and colleagues assessed the impacts of a poultry value chain intervention that aimed to increase poultry production and improve diets, finding limited impacts on maternal and child diets during the lean season. The results highlight the drawbacks of information-only-based value-chain interventions in this setting. (Read Article)
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Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but…: Remittance income reduced deforestation by 4.2 percentage points in Nepal between 2001 and 2010, and helped to shift Nepali household demand for timber and fuelwood toward non-wood alternatives. Using evidence from satellite-based land use data and a nationwide household survey, Wei Zhang, Zhe Guo, and colleagues discuss these findings and more. (Read Article)
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He Said, She Said: Research by Kate Ambler and colleagues analyzed levels of spousal concordance in household surveys about asset ownership and decision-making in Nepal. They find that wives are more likely than husbands to report wives’ and others’ asset ownership and decision-making, but that spousal concordance on these topics is not necessarily indicative of wives’ well-being, especially for couples who reside with the husband’s parents. (Read Article)
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The In-Laws: Using qualitative and quantitative data from an impact assessment of a livestock transfer project in Nepal, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and colleagues examined how caste and ethnicity, women’s social location within a household with in-laws, and husband’s migration status affect women’s empowerment. (Read Article)
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Benefits of Poultry Aren’t Paltry: A study by Harold Alderman and colleagues assessed the impacts of including a poultry transfer (a package of vaccinated, improved-breed chickens and related inputs) in a livelihood enhancement program in rural Ethiopia. They find that the poultry transfer increased women and children’s egg consumption and dietary diversity, as well increasing the sale of eggs. ( Read Article)
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Conflict’s Cascading Impact: At a time when food and fertilizer prices are already nearing troubling highs, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to disrupt global wheat markets as well as natural gas and fertilizer markets just as producers enter a new planting season. The two countries are top exporters of wheat, maize, barley, and sunflower oil, and many food importing countries rely heavily on exports from these countries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.
Russia and its ally Belarus are also important suppliers of nitrogenous fertilizers and potash, especially for many African countries. David Laborde and Joe Glauber examine the short- and long-term implications of the conflict for global food security, with a focus on the impact on developing countries. ( Read Blog)
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Food Supply Chains & COVID, Two Years On: Thomas Reardon, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos explore three key “pivots” that firms successfully made in sales, production, and procurement to adjust to the supply and demand shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. These examples of innovation provide policy lessons for ensuring resilience and flexibility in our food supply chains going forward. (Read Blog)
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Building Resilience: At our January 19 policy seminar, experts examined the implications of fragile agrifood systems and the findings of FAO’s The State of Food and Agriculture 2021 (SOFA) report. On the IFPRI blog, Swati Malhorta shares highlights from the event and lessons for making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses. (Read Blog)
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Tomato, Tomato, Wheat: In Haryana, India, wheat was more profitable than tomatoes as farmers contended with COVID-19 restrictions. This was mainly due to plummeting market prices in 2020, and to increased costs of transportation for accessing markets in 2021. Francisco Ceballos, Samyuktha Kannan, and Berber Kramer present their findings in an IFPRI blog post. (Read Blog)
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Agtech for Development: In an event at the virtual summit of Canada’s Information and Communications Technology Council, Claudia Ringler joined a panel discussion on the importance of agricultural technology in building more sustainable production practices and reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. (Read Blog)
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New Book on COVID-19 and Global Food Security: As we mark the second anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. The impacts of the pandemic are prolonged and likely to endure for years to come, with poor, marginalized, and vulnerable groups the most affected.
Our new book, COVID-19 & Global Food Security: Two Years Later, presents collected lessons learned on food security and food system resilience from new IFPRI research, blogs, and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub over the last 18 months. An interactive feature provides summaries and highlights from each of the book’s five sections of analysis. ( Explore Interactive)
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 Now that we had an internationally validated measure of women’s empowerment (WEAI), it was possible to examine relationships between women’s empowerment and other development outcomes.” – Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Event)
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More than 90% of global food production depends on soil. Soils provide habitats for soil organisms, purify and store water, filter pollutants, and they are the earth’s most important terrestrial carbon sink.” – Cornelia Berns, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Germany (Event)
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In the fight against hunger and poverty, the ‘leave no-one behind’ approach is vital to us. In the wake of growing food insecurity and imminent nutrition and climate crises, there is an increasing focus on agri-food systems on the global stage.” – Dirk Meyer, Head of Division I, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (Event)
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We wanted to take this opportunity with the [new IFPRI] book to provide evidence and lessons to help policymakers manage COVID-19 better in the longer term as it’s persisting, and to combine that in a more systematic way with other challenges they’re facing in terms of climate, conflict, et cetera.” – John McDermott, Former Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), IFPRI (Event)
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Ukraine invasion threatens global wheat supply: The New York Times quoted David Laborde in a report that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is threatening to cut off some international shipments of wheat, spurring shortages and pushing the price of a vital crop higher when supply chain disruptions have already sent food costs spiraling.
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