Gender in Agriculture
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This volume represents the culmination of a fruitful collaboration between the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). As the premier global policy advisory body
on food and agriculture, FAO is well placed to advise governments on the design
and implementation of agricultural policies that refl ect the latest advances from
empirical research. Since the 1980s, IFPRI has undertaken pathbreaking empirical
research that challenged the dominant paradigm that men and women within
households behave “as one.” Its fi ndings that putting more resources into the hands
of women has payoffs in terms of agricultural productivity, health, and nutrition
have been infl uential in the design of a new generation of development projects. In the
process leading up to The State of Food and Agriculture 2010–11 , FAO commissioned
many background papers on gender issues in agriculture, and undertook consultations
with researchers and policymakers all over the world. The sheer volume of new
evidence meant that all this new knowledge could not be presented in The State of
Food and Agriculture 2010–11 . Because of IFPRI’s contributions to research on
gender and development policy, FAO commissioned IFPRI to edit a volume comprising
the background papers, and to commission additional papers on specifi c
aspects of gender in agriculture.