IFPRI PRESENTS
How Women's Empowerment in Agriculture
Leads to Higher Maize Yields in Kenya
RUNNER
MAIZE
THE
![](http://media-s3-us-east-1.ceros.com/ifpri/images/2018/06/20/1d0ee512813ba1d6d92a311109f86002/arrow-icon.svg)
The study, conducted among 707 maize farming households in western Kenya, measured women's empowerment using the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
![](http://media-s3-us-east-1.ceros.com/ifpri/images/2018/07/27/17d5f7be958ef5b50714eb788784f40e/artboard-1-copy-2-at-2x.png)
Findings reveal that maize farms jointly managed by men and women are more productive when the women who tend to them are empowered.
![](http://media-s3-us-east-1.ceros.com/ifpri/images/2018/07/27/59e003298fb30dbd9db34f14198f491b/artboard-1-copy-3-at-2x.png)
And households with empowered women are more likely
to adopt technologies
that boost crop
yields
![](http://media-s3-us-east-1.ceros.com/ifpri/images/2018/07/27/b2b58ebf52c3fa5a861365739a1f0ba3/artboard-1-copy-4-at-2x.png)
SUBSCRIBE
Policies, programs, and projects to improve farm productivity—and consequently strengthen
food security and reduce poverty—should
integrate women's empowerment
To learn more about the latest IFPRI
research, subscribe to our monthly
newsletter, IFPRI Insights
This research holds important lessons for policy makers
![](http://media-s3-us-east-1.ceros.com/ifpri/images/2018/07/27/77834633d97597bc14b0782e386f602f/artboard-1-copy-6-at-2x.png)