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AbstractAgri‐food systems are important sources of rural off‐farm employment, but insights on job quality are limited. We study job quality in the Peruvian horticultural sector and explore the driving forces of decent and equal work, using survey data and econometric methods. We find structural disparities in wages and job quality between men and women and between local and migrant workers, trade‐offs between wage and nonwage dimensions of decent work, and sector and company differences. Our findings contest that global value chains are a catalyst for decent and equal work and underscore the importance of formalization and government regulation of employment.

AbstractIn this paper, we try to understand what the main causes of food losses (FLs) are. Our results show that producers' education and experience and the number of years in which a producer has been involved in the production of a specific crop are significantly correlated with reduction in FL. Unfavorable climatic conditions, pests, and diseases, as well as limited knowledge and access to equipment, credit, and markets, are also challenges to increasing production of higher quality and therefore reasons for FL. Policies to reduce and prevent FL need to be targeted to specific commodities and contexts.JEL CLASSIFICATIONQ13; Q18; Q58

PR ; IFPRI3; ISI; CRP2; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry; Capacity Strengthening ; MTID; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

La réduction des pertes et des gaspillages alimentaires peut contribuer à la sécurité alimentaire et à la durabilité. La mesure des pertes et gaspillages alimentaires, l'identification des endroits dans le système alimentaire où ils se produisent et l'élaboration de politiques efficaces le long de la chaîne de valeur sont autant de premières étapes fondamentales pour redresser le problème ; PR ; IFPRI1; B Promoting healthy food systems ; DGO; CKM; MTID

At a time when donors and governments are increasing efforts to mainstream gender in agriculture, it is critical to revisit long-standing wisdom about gender inequalities in agriculture to be able to more efficiently design and evaluate policy interventions. Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is some of this conventional wisdom simply maintained over time, or has it always been inaccurate? We use longitudinal data from Ghana to assess some of the facts and to evaluate whether gender patterns have changed over time. We focus on five main themes: land, cropping patterns, market participation, agricultural inputs, and employment. We add to the literature by showing new facts and evidence from more than 20 years. Results are varied and highlight the difficulty of making general statements about gender in agriculture. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; D Transforming Agriculture; G Cross-cutting gender theme; GSSP; Capacity Strengthening ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)