Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?

By Esha Sraboni, H. Malapit, A. Quisumbing, Akhter U. Ahmed. 2014

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Using a nationally representative survey from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI). Accounting for potential endogeneity of empowerment, we find that increases in women’s empowerment are positively associated with calorie availability and dietary diversity at the household level. Overall, household wealth, education, and occupation are more important than women’s empowerment as determinants of adult nutritional status, although negative impacts of group membership and credit on male BMI suggest that intrahousehold trade-offs may exist.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. A. Quisumbing
2. H. Malapit

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. A. Quisumbing
2. H. Malapit
3. P. Tyagi
4. K. Cunningham
5. S. Kadiyala
6. H. Teklewold
7. M. Kassie
8. A. Mekonnen

In Safety Research

1. H. Malapit
2. A. Quisumbing
3. H. Teklewold
4. M. Kassie
5. G. Kohlin
6. A. Mekonnen

Citations in the corpus

• Women’s Empowerment Mitigates the Negative Effects of Low Production Diversity on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Nepal (2015, background): “Evidence from Bangladesh suggests that the effect of women’s empowerment varies with wealth: Sraboni et al. (2014), using the WEAI, have shown that the positive effect of different dimensions of women’s empowerment on calorie availability and dietary diversity is greater for smaller landowners,…”
• What dimensions of women's empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? (2015, background): “…to improved household food security, leadership in the community and control of resources are the most promising areas for policy intervention, specifically increasing the number of groups in which women actively participate and increasing women’s control of assets (Sraboni et al. 2014).”