Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Agriculture and Rural Development -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Sourcebook Overview -- Introduction -- Why Gender Equality is Important in Agriculture -- Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook -- Sustainable Livelihoods Through a Gender Lens -- Key Considerations in the Creation of the Sourcebook -- Focus on people -- Holistic approach -- Macro-micro links -- Building on strengths -- Timing matters -- Context matters -- Heterogeneity of the rural poor -- Structure of the Sourcebook -- The Process of the Sourcebook -- Lessons Learned and Ways Forward -- Notes -- References -- MODULE 1: Gender and Food Security -- Introduction -- From Agriculture to Food Security -- Women's Role in Food and Nutritional Security -- Food Security -- Food availability -- Food access -- Food utilization -- Monitoring and Evaluation -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Further Information on Developing and using Food Security Indicators at Different Levels -- Further Case Studies -- MODULE 2: Gender and Agricultural Livelihoods: Strengthening Governance -- Overview -- Conceptual Framework -- Strategies to reform governance -- Making demand-side strategies gender sensitive -- Making supply-side strategies gender sensitive -- Going from "best practice" to "good fit" -- Policy Processes -- Public Administration and Public Sector Reform -- National and local machineries for promoting gender equity -- Public sector reform -- Reform models -- Public sector reforms by involving the private sector and civil society -- Reforms to reduce corruption -- Decentralization, Local Governance, and Community-Driven Development -- Decentralization -- Community-driven development -- Global Governance of Agriculture -- Measuring Change: Gender-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators -- Notes.

Thematic Note 1: Gender in Policy-Making Processes -- Introduction -- Gender in Different Types of Policy Processes -- Women as Policy Makers -- Missed Opportunity from Limited Analytical Work -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Unified policy framework -- Representation of women in political institutions -- Participation of women in political processes -- Gender-responsive budgeting -- Strengthening analytical capacity -- Gender in policy instruments -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Notes -- Thematic Note 2: Institutionalizing Gender in the Agriculture Sector -- Introduction -- National Machineries for the Advancement of Women -- Gender Units and Focal Points in The Agriculture Sector -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Guidelines and recommendations for practitioners -- Notes -- Thematic Note 3: Decentralization and Community-Driven Development -- Introduction -- Key Gender Issues -- Experiences, Impacts, and Benefits from Gender-Responsive Actions -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Capacity building -- Participation -- Institutional linkages -- Financing modalities -- Guidelines and recommendations for practitioners -- Challenges -- Notes -- Thematic Note 4: Gender, Self-Help Groups, and Farmer Organizations in the Agricultural Sector -- Social Capital, Empowerment, and Decision-Making Agency -- Group Functions, Advantages, and Disadvantages -- Experience, Impacts, and Benefits from Gender-Responsive Actions -- Policy and Implementation Issues -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Advocacy -- Notes -- Innovative Activity Profile 1: Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Gender and Governance Issues in Local Government -- Introduction -- Project Objectives and Description -- Benefits and Impacts -- Lessons Learned and Issues for Wider Applicability -- Notes.

Innovative Activity Profile 2: Côte d'Ivoire: Gender in Agricultural Services Reforms -- Project Objectives and Description -- Gender Approach -- Innovative Features -- Policy making -- Policy implementation/public administration -- Capacity strengthening -- Benefits and Impacts -- Lessons Learned and Issues for Wider Applicability -- Notes -- Innovative Activity Profile 3: Sri Lanka: Gemidiriya Community Development and Livelihood Improvement Project -- Project Objectives and Description -- Gender Approach -- Benefits and Impacts -- Lessons Learned and Issues for Wider Applicability -- Notes -- References -- Overview -- Thematic Note 1 -- Thematic Note 2 -- Thematic Note 3 -- Thematic Note 4 -- Innovative Activity Profile 2 -- Innovative Activity Profile 3 -- Further Reading -- Thematic Note 1 -- Thematic Note 2 -- Thematic Note 3 -- Thematic Note 4 -- MODULE 3: Gender and Rural Finance -- Overview -- Rural Finance and Rural Livelihoods: Introduction -- Benefits from Gender-Responsive Action: Potential Virtuous Spirals -- Gender Challenges: Potential Vicious Circles -- Gender Mainstreaming in an Inclusive Financial Sector for Pro-Poor Development: Good Practice and Current Areas of Debate and Innovation -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Gender Indicators and Checklist -- Notes -- Thematic Note 1: Organizational Gender Mainstreaming: Models and Strategies -- Organizational Models and Dimensions of Variation -- Key Gender Issues and Benefits of Gender Mainstreaming: Empowerment Versus Sustainability -- Organizational Gender Mainstreaming: Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Implementing a Staff Gender Policy: Benefits, Costs, and Good Practices -- Indicators and Checklist -- Notes -- Thematic Note 2: Rural Finance Products: From Access to Empowerment -- Introduction -- Key Gender Issues -- Credit: Good Practices and Innovations.

Savings and Pensions: Good Practices and Innovations -- Insurance: Good Practices and Innovations -- Remittance Transfer Services: Good Practices and Innovations -- Recent Innovations in Product Development -- Notes -- Innovative Activity Profile 1: Andhra Pradesh, India: A Women-Managed Community Financial System -- Introduction -- Project Objectives and Description -- Innovations in the Project -- Benefits and Impacts -- Macrolevel impact -- Institutional impacts -- Household impact -- Lessons Learned and Issues for Wider Applicability -- Ways Forward -- Notes -- Innovative Activity Profile 2: Uganda: Kabarole Research and Resource Centre's, Participatory, Self-Managed Microfinance Model -- Introduction -- Organizational Objectives and Description -- Organizational Components and Impacts -- The MFA Model -- Gender Mainstreaming in Sustainable Agriculture -- Participatory Action Learning System -- Rural information centres -- Lessons Learned, Prospects for the Future, and Issues for Wider Applicability -- Lessons learned -- Prospects for the future -- Issues for wider applicability -- Notes -- References -- Overview -- Thematic Note 1 -- Thematic Note 2 -- Further Reading -- Overview -- Thematic Note 1 -- Innovative Activity Profile 2 -- MODULE 4: Gender Issues in Land Policy and Administration -- Overview -- Importance of Gender in Land Policy and Administration -- Gender Equity Issues and Land Policy -- Formal legal framework and institutions -- Customary norms and institutions related to land access and rights -- Sociocultural difficulties with women exercising land rights -- Implementation of Land Administration Programs -- Program design and planning -- Program implementation -- Monitoring and evaluation -- New and Emerging Directions -- Notes -- Thematic Note 1: Gendered Access to Land and Property -- Introduction -- Key Gender Issues.

Sociocultural institutions -- Allocations from the state -- Land market -- Policy and Implementation Issues -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Rice land in The Gambia -- Leasehold of forest land in Nepal -- Community-based natural resource management in Namibia -- Homestead land purchase program in India -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Common property -- Allocation of land as private property -- Notes -- Thematic Note 2: Legal Reforms and Women's Property Rights -- Key Gender Issues -- Conceptual Framework -- Policy and Implementation Issues -- Shared tenure -- Polygamy, divorce, and abandonment -- Inheritance -- Markets -- Implementation -- Good Practices, Lessons Learned, and Guidelines for Practitioners -- Notes -- Thematic Note 3: Land Dispute Resolution -- Introduction -- Key Gender Issues -- Policy and Implementation Issues -- Formal dispute management -- Customary dispute management -- Alternative dispute resolution methods -- Legal pluralism -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Dispute resolution within land administration programs -- Notes -- Thematic Note 4: Gender-Responsive Titling -- Introduction -- Benefits from Gender-Responsive Titling -- Policy and Implementation Issues -- Good Practices and Lessons Learned -- Cultural norms affecting women's land rights -- Joint titling -- Marital property and polygamy -- Cultural differences arising from rural-urban differences and a market economy -- Guidelines and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Notes -- Innovative Activity Profile 1: Nepal: Women Gain a Voice and Greater Access to Resources through the Hills Leasehold Project -- Project Objectives and Description -- Gender Approach -- Benefits and Impacts -- Project impacts -- Gender impacts -- Lessons Learned and Issues for Wider Applicability -- Notes.

Innovative Activity Profile 2: Honduras: A Pilot Project Protects Women's Rights to Productive Resources.