Smallholder farmers play a significant role in rural economic growth, as they contribute large portion of the workforce areas. Consumption less diverse diets and inadequate access to sufficient food poses danger for their health. We assessed security status nutrition smallholder farming households Imo State, South-East Nigeria. identified sources availability households, determined also factors...

purpose: the aim of our current research was to study the effect of group reality therapy on psychological well-being of female headed household. the research method was semi-experimental of in equivalent type along with pretest and posttest. method: hence, 30 women among female headed household under the coverage of varamin city welfare organization were non-randomly selected, and randomly ass...

INTRODUCTION The paradoxical phenomenon of the coexistence of overweight and underweight individuals in the same household, referred to as the "dual burden of malnutrition", is a growing nutrition dilemma in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). AIMS The objectives of this study were (i) to examine the extent of the dual burden of malnutrition across different provinces in Indonesia and (...

Poverty rates are particularly high among households headed by single women, and childbirth is often the event preceding these households' poverty spells. This paper examines the relationship between legal access to the birth control pill and female poverty. We rely on exogenous cross-state variation in the year in which oral contraception became legally available to young, single women. Using ...

Smallholder farmers in lower-income countries often lack access to agricultural inputs, services, and markets. This holds especially for female farmers, with important negative implications productivity, child welfare, rural development. Contract farming is promoted as a means improving farmers’ markets – thereby household income welfare. Could contract also reduce prevalent gender disparities?...

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments have severe consequences for health care access and utilisation and are especially catastrophic for the poor. Although women comprise the majority of the poor in Nigeria and globally, the implications of OOP payments for health care access from a gender perspective have received little attention. This study seeks to fill this gap by using a combination of quantitati...