The Effect of Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture on Household Nutrition and Food Poverty in Northern Ghana

Tsiboe, Francis; Zereyesus, Yacob; Popp, Jennie; Osei, Evelyn

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1659-4

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“…Poverty has its severe ramifications as people are unaware of means and know-how that may contribute to drag them out of it. It is believed that resources and knowledge are pivotal elements of empowerment that play a role of facilitator (Tsiboe, Zereyesus, Popp, & Osei, 2018).…”

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“…Therefore, government and development agencies should play their preponderating role to urge women's role in the society in general and for working in particular. Therefore, execution of poverty reduction policies should carry in a way that it may reduce very high workload and abolish hindrances in the way of their empowerment (Tsiboe et al., ).…”

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Household empowerment as the key to eradicate poverty incidence

haq

Jali

Islam

2018

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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The current study aimed to investigate how the household empowerment can potentially reduce the rural poverty incidence. The data were collected through multistage random sampling from the rural households of 24 villages in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. A total of 600 households were selected as sample pool. Face‐to‐face interviews with the household heads were conducted. The household empowerment was measured through an index that was adopted from Abrar‐ul‐haq (“An assessment of the role of household empowerment in alleviating poverty in Southern Punjab, Pakistan” (Ph.D. Dissertation), School of Economics, Finance and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 2017). The binary logit model was used to analyze the impact of household empowerment with other control variables on poverty incidence. The results of the current study confirm the negative nexus between household empowerment and poverty incidence of rural households as the study reported that the probabilities (odds ratio: 0.877) of being poor are reduced by increasing the empowerment (in every aspect, economically, politically, and socially) of the households, and the results are statistically significant at the 1% level of significance. Based on empirical results, this study suggests that household empowerment has significant potential to reduce poverty incidence in the rural areas of Southern Punjab, Pakistan.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Household empowerment as the key to eradicate poverty incidence

haq

Jali

Islam

2018

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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“…In northern Benin, Alaofè et al [28] found that women's empowerment in leadership (which included questions on public speaking) was associated with improved women's dietary diversity. Similarly, Tsiboe et al [22] using the WEAI measure in Ghana, found that…”

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“…This makes the applicability and comparability of empowerment measures across different settings difficult. However, there is consensus that empowerment is a complex, relational, and multidimensional concept where different domains and indicators are relevant for specific outcomes including women's nutrition [14,[21][22][23][24][25][26]. Studies have shown a strong link between improved women's empowerment in access and control of income and assets [21], aggregate empowerment score [27,28], autonomy in production and work hours [29], agricultural decisions [30], and credit decisions [31] on women's food consumption and nutrition outcomes.…”

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What empowerment indicators are important for food consumption for women? Evidence from 5 sub-Sahara African countries

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This paper draws on data from five sub-Sahara African countries; Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique consisting of 10,041 married women who were cohabitating with a male spouse. The study aim was to investigate the relationship between women’s empowerment and women’s dietary diversity and consumption of different food items. Women’s empowerment was measured using the indicators in the five domains of Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture index (WEAI) and women’s dietary diversity and food consumption was examined using the women’s dietary diversity score (WDDS) measure. OLS and LPM regressions were used and analyses were confirmed using marginal effects from Poisson and logistic regressions. Results suggest that three out of the 10 WEAI indicators of empowerment showed different magnitude and direction in significant associations with improved WDDS and varied associations were found in three out of the five countries examined. In addition, the three significant empowerment indicators were associated with the consumption of different food groups in three out of the five countries examined suggesting that diverse food groups account for the association between the WEAI and WDDS. Improved autonomy, and input in production were associated with improved likelihoods of consumption of dairy products, and fruits and vegetables including vitamin A-rich produce. Empowerment in public speaking was associated with improved consumption of other fruits and vegetables including vitamin A-rich produce. The varied nature of empowerment indicators towards improving women’s dietary diversity and food consumption suggests that different empowerment strategies might confer different benefits towards the consumption of different food groups. Further, findings imply that interventions that seek to empower women should tailor their strategies on existing contextual factors that impact on women

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“…Another study from Pakistan concluded that children living in a household where a woman is the household head (which means she has the autonomy of decision-making), leads to less chances of childhood stunting [36]. In northern Ghana, Tsiboe et al [37] conclude that women’s empowerment in agriculture across three dimensions, namely production, income control, and leadership, positively influences nutrient availability in the household, while also reducing monetary shortfalls for purchasing food. Cunningham et al [38] found that, in Nepal, the underlying pathway behind the effect of women’s empowerment in agriculture (five domain index) on children (less than 2 years of age) was seen in the length-for-age z-score (LAZ).…”

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Pathways and Associations between Women’s Land Ownership and Child Food and Nutrition Security in Pakistan

Rehman

Peng

Razzaq

2019

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Women’s land ownership plays a noteworthy role in improving various development indicators, including her own wellbeing and children’s food and nutrition security. However, the literature linking women’s access to land rights to the nutritional security of children in Pakistan is limited, even though it is a country facing enormous challenges of childhood malnutrition and gender discrimination. This paper contributes to the existing literature on the benefits of empowering women by studying the association and pathways between women’s land rights and child nutrition, using the 2012–2013 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey. The ordinary least squares (OLS) regression results indicate that women’s individual land ownership and women’s autonomy in large-scale family purchases have a positive impact on children’s food and nutrition security (FNS). The results of quantile regression (QR) show that these effects are more pronounced in cases of children with severe stunted growth. In addition, a structural equation model shows that the positive relationship between women’s land ownership and child nutrition is partially mediated by women’s increased decision-making power in large-scale household purchases. Our research concludes that ensuring women’s land rights can improve women’s autonomy, which can be an effective policy tool that not only improves women’s welfare but also improves their children’s nutritional security.

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The Effect of Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture on Household Nutrition and Food Poverty in Northern Ghana

Cited by 37 publications

References 21 publications

Household empowerment as the key to eradicate poverty incidence

Household empowerment as the key to eradicate poverty incidence

What empowerment indicators are important for food consumption for women? Evidence from 5 sub-Sahara African countries

Pathways and Associations between Women’s Land Ownership and Child Food and Nutrition Security in Pakistan

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