Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines

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Small ruminant value chain and empowerment: a gendered baseline study from Ethiopia

“…VCs embedded within the opportunity structures cannot be gender-neutral (Malapit et al, 2020). Although an increasing number of studies (see Dolan and Humphrey, 2000;Kidder and Raworth, 2010;Malapit et al, 2019) have shown the benefits of VCs to women, they have also uncovered its role in exacerbating gender inequalities (Malapit et al, 2020). Yet, VCs can be an instrument for reducing the gender gap and enhancing women's empowerment if implemented intentionally to avoid such pitfalls (Maertens and Verhofstadt, 2013;Van den Broeck et al, 2018).…”