Collective Empowerment and Influential Group Membership Matter for Household Food Security

ABSTRACT: Abstract

Objectives

Reducing the gender gap in empowerment within households is associated with indicators of improved diet. This study developed a household-level empowerment measure and then examined its association with food security.

Methods

This analysis used baseline data from a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention in rural Ghana (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03869853). Only 198 of the 330 households with complete paired empowerment data for one female and one male were included. The household empowerment measure was constructed in two stages. First, the individual empowerment score was assessed using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) with its 12 indicators (e.g., influential group membership, access to financial services). Parti

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9193757 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature