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Overview

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as global and planetary change, safety research, economics and econometrics, general agricultural and biological sciences, and soil science.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics within conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, as well as poverty, education, and child welfare. Other notable areas of focus include microfinance and financial inclusion, agriculture, land use, and rural development, water resources management and optimization, agricultural innovations and practices, and child nutrition and water access.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of the Commons
  • Ecology and Society
  • Global Food Security
  • Journal of Rural Studies

Recent papers by Ruth Meinzen-Dick feature collaborative research and cover various aspects of land tenure, gender equality, food systems, and ecological restoration. Selected recent publications include:

  • Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • A review of evidence on gender equality, women's empowerment, and food systems, 2022, Global Food Security
  • Ten people-centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration, 2021, Restoration Ecology
  • Restoration for Whom, by Whom? A Feminist Political Ecology of Restoration, 2021, Ecological Restoration
  • Measuring Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: Innovations and evidence, 2023, Global Food Security

In addition to journal articles, Ruth Meinzen-Dick has contributed to book publications, including work published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks. A notable book is "Enhancing women's resource rights for improving resilience to climate change," published in 2021.

Frequent co-authors in Ruth Meinzen-Dick's research include:

  • Hazel Malapit
  • Agnes Quisumbing
  • Greg Seymour
  • Wei Zhang
  • Jessica Heckert

The researcher's interdisciplinary approach brings together elements of social sciences, economics, environmental studies, and agricultural sciences to examine complex challenges related to resource management, gender issues, and sustainable development.

Best Publications

  • The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

    Sabina Alkire;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Amber Peterman;Agnes R. Quisumbing

  • Collective action for smallholder market access

    Helen Markelova;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Jon Hellin;Stephan Dohrn

  • "Land grabbing" by foreign investors in developing countries: Risks and opportunities

    Joachim von Braun;Ruth Meinzen-Dick

  • Gender, property rights, and natural resources

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Lynn R. Brown;Hilary Sims Feldstein;Agnes R. Quisumbing

  • Beyond panaceas in water institutions.

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick

  • What Affects Organization and Collective Action for Managing Resources? Evidence from Canal Irrigation Systems in India

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;K.V Raju;Ashok Gulati

  • Methods for studying collective action in rural development

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Monica DiGregorio;Nancy McCarthy

  • Water allocation mechanisms: principles and examples

    Ariel Dinar;Mark W. Rosegrant;Ruth Meinzen-Dick

  • Water, Politics and Development: Framing a Political Sociology of Water Resources Management

    P.P. Mollinga;A. Bhat;F. Cleaver;R. Meinzen-Dick

  • The gender implications of large-scale land deals

    Julia A. Behrman;Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Agnes R. Quisumbing

  • Legal Pluralism and Dynamic Property Rights

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Rajendra Pradhan

  • ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ON POVERTY USING THE SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS FRAMEWORK

    Michelle Adato;Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick

  • Cutting the web of interests: Pitfalls of formalizing property rights

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Esther Mwangi

  • Gendered participation in water management: Issues and illustrations from water users' associations in South Asia

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Margreet Zwarteveen

  • Women in agriculture: Four myths

    Cheryl Doss;Cheryl Doss;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Agnes Quisumbing;Sophie Theis

  • Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Agnes Quisumbing;Cheryl Doss;Sophie Theis

  • Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development: Lessons from Eight Projects.

    Nancy L. Johnson;Chiara Kovarik;Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick;Jemimah Njuki

  • Development of the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI).

    Hazel Malapit;Agnes Quisumbing;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Greg Seymour

  • Negotiating Water Rights

    Bryan Randolph Bruns;Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick

  • "Land grabbing" by foreign investors in developing countries: Risks and opportunities

    J. von Braun;R. Meinzen-Dick

  • Gender and Sustainability

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Chiara Kovarik;Agnes R. Quisumbing

  • COLLECTIVE ACTION, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DEVOLUTION OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

    Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Anna Knox;Brenda Katon

  • The gender implications of large-scale land deals [In Arabic]:

    Julia A. Behrman;Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick;Agnes R. Quisumbing

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent Swallow
Brent Swallow University of Alberta
Amber Peterman
Amber Peterman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute
Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Sabina Alkire
Sabina Alkire University of Oxford
Ephraim Nkonya
Ephraim Nkonya International Food Policy Research Institute
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano Georgetown University
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University
Pay Drechsel
Pay Drechsel International Water Management Institute
David Molden
David Molden World Bank

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