Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationHelen Keller Internationalen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Healthen_US
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Commissionen_US
cg.contributor.donorInternational Fund for Agricultural Developmenten_US
cg.coverage.countryBurkina Fasoen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BFen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierAgnes Quisumbing: 0000-0002-5429-1857en_US
cg.creator.identifierDeanna Olney: 0000-0002-2420-8565en_US
cg.creator.identifierMara Van den Bold: 0000-0001-9794-2026en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.placeWashington, D.C.en_US
cg.subject.ilriAGRICULTUREen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen_US
cg.subject.ilriNUTRITIONen_US
dc.contributor.authorvan den Bold, Maraen_US
dc.contributor.authorPedehombga, Abdoulayeen_US
dc.contributor.authorOuédraogo, Marcellinen_US
dc.contributor.authorQuisumbing, Agnes R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorOlney, Deanna K.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-03T11:37:54Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-08-03T11:37:54Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/67759en_US
dc.titleCan integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Fasoen_US
dcterms.abstractThere is a high degree of interest in the potential for agricultural programs to be designed and implemented to achieve health and nutrition objectives. Policymakers have often looked to the experience of civil society organizations in designing and implementing such programs, particularly in different social and cultural contexts. For the past 20 years, Helen Keller International (HKI) has implemented homestead food production programs in Asia and recently has started to adapt and implement these programs in Africa south of the Sahara. The goal of these programs is to improve the nutritional status of and young children through a number of production and nutrition interventions. These interventions are targeted to mothers under the presumption that increasing women’s access to and control over productive assets and enhancing women’s human capital to improve production and health and nutrition care practices will translate into improved nutritional status for their children. However, there is very little evidence documenting the ways in which HKI’s homestead food production programs influence women’s access to and control over productive assets and enhance women’s human capital in ways that may improve nutritional outcomes. This paper uses a mixed-methods approach to analyze the impact of HKI’s Enhanced-Homestead Food Production pilot program in Burkina Faso on women’s and men’s assets and on norms regarding ownership, use, and control of those assets. Even though men continue to own and control most land and specific assets in the study area, women’s control over and ownership of assets has started to change, both in terms of quantifiable changes as well as changes in people’s perceptions and opinions about who can own and control certain assets. The paper also discusses the implications of such changes for program sustainability.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationvan den Bold, Mara; Pedehombga, Abdoulaye; Ouédraogo, Marcellin; Quisumbing, Agnes R. and Olney, Deanna K. 2013. Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1315. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67759en_US
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2013-12-15en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/127986en_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectnutritionen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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