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Gendered languages
Introduction Language is an important cultural institution in human society. The World Bank (2019) estimates that 38 percent of world languages have grammatical gender, which can be defined as a system of word classification in which words are grouped into categories or “genders”. In the last decade, gendered language has attracted increasing attention from social…
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AgQuery 50X2030 Cambodia Initiative
In December 2024, members of the Evans School Policy and Analysis Research (EPAR) group visited Cambodia, for the launch of AgQuery, an open-source, publicly-available data-visualization tool that EPAR developed to guide policy analysis and host rich agricultural data like the Cambodian Agricultural Survey. University of Washington Professors Leigh Anderson and Stanley Wood, and EPAR Research…
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Patterns of household food consumption across food groups and sources in sub-Saharan African countries
Background In most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), per capita food expenditure has been steadily rising over the past few decades despite challenges from climate change, conflict, and COVID-19. Trends in food consumption are driven by urbanization, higher incomes, globalization, increased economic integration, and consumer preferences. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) there has been a shift…