Topic Guide: Women’s empowerment in a changing agricultural and rural context

Murray, Úna

doi:10.12774/eod_tg.january2015.murrayu

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“…Most irrigated crops are perishable, market prices can fluctuate widely, and the lack of appropriate storage facilities means that farmers must often sell at low prices shortly after harvest when 4 Empowerment is the process through which individuals feel they can influence, control and take decisions over issues that affect their lives, assuming alternatives exist. Supporting women's empowerment requires an understanding of underlying culture, as well as an understanding of control and power dimensions (Murray, 2015) gluts are more common. In the absence of organised markets, traders are able to take advantage of resource poor farmers (Giordano and de Fraiture 2014).…”

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Topic Guide: Irrigation infrastructure for sustainable and improved agricultural productivity

Makin¹

2016

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Evidence on Demand supports the professional development of Climate, Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods Advisers at DFID. Technical Competency Frameworks for the advisory groups guide the support provided. Evidence on Demand also supports cross-cutting or development competencies which cover areas of technical knowledge and skills needed by advisers to effectively deploy their core technical skills and knowledge in development policy and operations. The Evidence on Demand team is led by a DAI (which incorporates HTSPE Limited) and IMC Worldwide Limited Joint Venture. Both firms are established development consultancies with considerable experience in managing resource centres. The Joint Venture is backed by a core consortium of specialist organisations. The consortium provides technical support for developing quality assured resources, answering helpdesk enquiries and supporting consultancy services. Please go to the Evidence on Demand website (www.evidenceondemand.info) for further details.

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Section: Trade and Marketsmentioning

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