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ETHIOPIAN DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Nutritional Outcomes in Ethiopia
Feiruz Yimer and Fanaye TaddesseIFPRI- ESSP29th International Conference of Agricultural EconomicsAugust 8-14Milan, Italy
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Introduction
• Intra-household resource allocation has a considerable role to play in nutritional outcomes.
• The extent to which women control resources largely determines the kind of care they provide for their children.
• lack of control over household resources, time, knowledge, and social support networks -> poor nutritional outcomes.
• Empirical research mostly shows that greater control by women in household has an impact on the nutritional and educational outcomes of children
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Objective of our research
• Look into the impact of women’s empowerment on nutritional outcomes of children and women.
• Complex linkages; direction of relationship between women’s status and nutrition not straight forward.
• Women’s empowerment through engaging in agriculture or other paid work
could reduce the amount of time available for them to take care of themselves as well as their children.
Positive income effect
Measuring women’s empowerment not easy. Use new measure of women empowerment called Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI).
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Data
• Data from a baseline survey conducted for the evaluation of the FtF program in Ethiopia, the US government global hunger and food security initiative (USAID)
• Collected by CSA in collaboration with IFPRI in June 2013.
• The data is collected
o 5 regions (Tigray, Amhara, Oromiya, Somalia and SNNP)
o 84 woredas (districts)
o 7,011 households
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Methodology
• we estimated the following equation:
Where Y - vector of women and child nutritional outcomes. I - vector of individual characteristics, H - household characteristics and - the error term.
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
• Developed by researchers at USAID, IFPRI, and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
• Composed of two sub-indexes: the Five Domains of Empowerment sub-index (5DE) and the Gender Parity sub-Index (GPI)
Five Domains of Empowerment sub-index (5DE) measures the empowerment of women in five areas (90 percent of the total WEAI); and
The Gender Parity Index (GPI) measures the empowerment gap of men and women within the household(10 percent of the total WEAI)
Methodology - Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
• The five domains, their definitions under the WEAI, the corresponding indicators, and their weights for the 5DE are:
Domain(each weighted 1/5 of 5DE sub-index
Indicator Weight
ProductionInput in productive decisions 1/10Autonomy in production 1/10
ResourcesOwnership of assets 1/15Purchase, sale, or transfer of assets 1/15Access to and decisions about credit 1/15
Income Control over use of income 1/15
LeadershipGroup member 1/10Speaking in public 1/10
TimeWorkload 1/10Leisure 1/10
Methodology (Cont.) WEAI Components
• How empowered are Ethiopian women in Agriculture?
• The female respondent’s individual-level 5DE profile or score (weighted average of the 10 indicators)
• The average 5DE score is 0.64
A lower level of empowerment in agriculture for Ethiopian women compared with women in Bangladesh (0.75), Uganda (0.79), Guatemala (0.69) and Nepal (0.58).
• The findings from the WEAI diagnostics are used to identify the focus of analysis.
• Contribution of each of the five domains to disempowerment
Leadership, Time, Resources, Production and Income
Descriptive of WEAI
Descriptive - Contribution of each of the 5 domains to disempowerment of women
Production11%
Resources25%
Income7%
Leadership30%
Time27%
Descriptive - Contribution of each of the 10 domain indicators to disempowerment of women
Input in productive decisions
3%Autonomy in production
7%Ownership of
assets5%
Purchase, sale or transfer of
assets5%
Access to and decisions on
credit15%
Control over use of income
7%Group membership
15%
Speaking in public15%
Workload13%
Leisure14%
Production-Autonomy in production
Resource- Decision on credit Income- Control over use of
income Leadership- Group membership Time- Workload
Descriptive-Nutritional outcomes
Children's Nutritional Outcomes (under 5 years)
Stunting (%) 51.3
Wasting (%) 12.1
Underweight (%) 33.1
Women's Nutritional Outcomes
Dietary Diversity (No. of food groups) 1.49
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Methodology
• Following the works by IFPRI colleagues (Sraboni et al, 2014 in Bangladesh and Malapit et al, 2013)
• Outcome variables-
HAZ and dietary diversity of children
dietary diversity of women
• Possible endogeneity of the empowerment measures and production diversity - instrumental variables (IV) technique.
• Controlled for household and community level characteristics
Result: Regression on children dietary diversity
Model I Model II Model III Model IV Model V Model VI
Five Domains of Empowerment 3.380***
Group membership 0.304***
Credit decision 1.461***
Decision on Income 0.407***
Autonomy in production 0.200
Workload 0.000
Result: Regression on children Height-for-Age
Model I Model II Model III Model IV Model VModel VI
Five Domains of Empowerment 3.127***
Group membership 0.249
Credit decision 1.257*
Decision on Income 0.586*
Autonomy in production 0.151
Workload -0.118
Result: Regression on Women dietary diversity
Model I Model II Model III Model IV Model V Model VI
Five Domains of Empowerment 3.186***
Group membership 0.605**
Credit decision 1.892***
Decision on Income 0.338
Autonomy in production 0.237
Workload 0.161**
Children’s nutritional outcomes:
• Wealth
• Availability of dairy cows and chicken
• Dependency ratio
Women’s Dietary Diversity
• Education
• Wealth
• Availability of dairy cows and chicken
• Number of crops produced by the household
Result-Additional variables
Conclusion
• Women’s empowerment has a positive impact on children’s Dietary Diversity and stunting as well as women’s Dietary Diversity
• Having say on credit decisions and decision on income has implication on nutritional outcomes of children and women
• Our study confirms finding from other countries:
Nepal (Malpit et. al, 2013): Autonomy in production dietary diversity of both women and children
Bangladesh (Sraboni et. al, 2013): Over all women empowerment score, number of groups in which a women is an active member and women’s control over asset household dietary diversity
Ghana (Malapit et. al, 2013): 5DE infant and young child feeding
role in credit decisions women’s dietary diversity