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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that if female farmers in developing countries had access to the same resources as men, the number of undernourished people would decrease by 12%–17% [9]. Clearly, gender equity is a vital part of increasing agricultural production to feed the world’s projected 9.7 billion people by 2050. However, programs designed to empower women in agricultural systems are expensive, and no quantitative model exists to define and explore the efficacy of policies in cultural contexts. We introduce a formal model of household decisions embedded in an agent-based model of community gender dynamics and show how the explicit definition of gender inequity can help inform decision-making about programs intended to empower women.
Supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
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Thanks to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for funding this research. Thank you also to Lacey Harris-Coble and Luca Mantegazza who discussed gender dynamics and bargaining with us.
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Beal Cohen, A.A., Cohen, P.R., Kiker, G. (2019). Modeling Gender Inequity in Household Decision-Making. In: Thomson, R., Bisgin, H., Dancy, C., Hyder, A. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21741-9_4
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