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In Côte d’Ivoire, women occupy an important place in the agricultural sector, which is the basis of the country’s economy. There is unanimous agreement on the essential role that these women must play through their empowerment for the country’s development. Therefore, we must find appropriate solutions to the problem of women’s empowerment in order to enable them to participate vigorously in the country’s development. This study aims to address the problems of women’s empowerment in agriculture by highlighting the potential opportunity that the practice of market gardening represents for women’s empowerment. Based on a qualitative approach using ENV (2019) data, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) shows that women producer of market garden produce are as self-reliant as their counterparts in other agricultural sub-sectors. In the same logic, the WEAI shows us that the practice of this crop has a positive effect on women’s empowerment. By using these four (4) methods of effect determination, namely the Nearest Neighbour Method, Radius Method, Stratification Method and Kernel Method, the following values were obtained: 0.007; 0.039; 0.017; 0.027, which are all positive. The objective of the study is to determine the impact of market gardening on the empowerment of the women who practice it.

Agriculture has long been Côte d’Ivoire’s main source of export income and the first largest sector providing employment. For several decades, Ivorian agriculture remained unmodernized. The modernization of agriculture requires both public and private funding. Despite some efforts, financing of agriculture is not effective in Côte d'Ivoire due to the lack of real commitment from the private sector and commercial banks. The results showed that in the long-term agricultural credit and other variables have a positive and significant influence on agricultural added value. It is therefore recommended to increase agricultural credit and extend it to small producers.

Many studies have shown that rising prices are not transmitted in the same way as falling prices and vice versa. There is an asymmetry in price transmission between agricultural commodity markets that is an important issue in household food security. The main objective of this study is to examine the nature of price transmission in yam markets in Côte d’Ivoire. To do so, two regression models were used, namely the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method and Vector autoregressive (VAR) model. The results revealed that a variation in prices on Abengourou and Korhogo markets affects the price on the Abidjan market even though trade between these markets is not direct. Similarly, the price one month later on Abidjan market is affected by its past price and that of Korhogo market one month earlier. As recommendation, the study suggests that the government should strengthen and improve road infrastructure as well as communication networks to enhance trade between markets.