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What Dimensions Of Women’s Empowerment In Agriculture Matter For Nutrition In Ghana?

Analyzing data collected from a 2012 baseline data of the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana and the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, this article examines the relation between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children. The authors’ analysis reveals that nutritional status is impacted differently across the various domains of women’s empowerment. 

Malapit, H., Quisumbing, J.L., and Agnes R. Food Policy (April 2015), Vol. 52, pp 54-63.