Impact of a homestead food production program on women's empowerment: Pro-WEAI results from the FAARM trial in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs have the potential to improve women's and children's nutrition, along with women's empowerment. The project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) aims to standardize the measurement of women's agency and enable the assessment of impact over typical project timelines. Within the Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Habiganj, Sylhet, Bangladesh, we examined quantitative pro-WEAI data collected from a subsample of trial participants and their husbands (n = 885) approximately four months after the end of the intervention. We evaluated the impact of a three-year homestead food production program on men's and women's agency separately by pro-WEAI domain and indi

SUBMITTER: Waid JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9351289 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature