Agricultural Technology, Risk, and Gender: A CGE Analysis of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(00)00017-6

Cited by 45 publications

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“…Much literature recognizes the existence of gendered agricultural practices in many parts of the Global South (e.g., Arndt and Tarp, 2000;Doss, 2002;Ezumah and Di Domenico, 1995;Gladwin, 1992;Kevane, 2011;Sachs, 1996), practices that are generally enforced through both social norms and institutions such as land tenure (Agrawal, 2003;Tripp, 2004). For example, Carr (2011) demonstrates that the convergence of a male-controlled land tenure system and widelyheld gendered roles and responsibilities in Ghana's Central Region lead women to select vegetable crops that are useful for subsistence consumption, as opposed to tree crops that are both more robust in the face of climate variability and more valuable in local markets.…”

Section: Gender and Agricultural Decision-making In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

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The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda

Fisher

Carr

2015

Global Environmental Change

124

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A B S T R A C TGender-disaggregated, household survey data for Uganda are used to examine how gendered roles and responsibilities influence adoption of drought-tolerant (DT) maize, a new technology that can help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa adapt to drought risk. Multinomial logit (MNL) regression results indicate that, compared to men farmers, women farmers have much lower adoption of DT maize, mainly due to differences in resource access, notably land, agricultural information, and credit. Differentiation of women and men farmers by various characteristics reveals that whether a male farmer was younger or older, or poor or non-poor has no significant influence on DT maize adoption; but important differences among different categories of women farmers are identified. For example, the farmer group found least likely to adopt DT maize is young, poor women household heads. MNL results also show that wives strongly influence adoption of DT maize on plots controlled by their husbands. We discuss the implications of study findings for the development of well-targeted and socially-inclusive adaptation policies.

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Section: Gender and Agricultural Decision-making In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

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The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda

Fisher

Carr

2015

Global Environmental Change

124

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“…Within this production cycle, women have been reported playing vital roles in rice production, processing and marketing. (Rahman 2004) However, women have limited access to a wide range of physical assets including agricultural inputs, technological resources, land, and so forth (Arndt & Tarp, 2000). Women are a key part of the mainstream in agriculture, yet they face formidable obstacles (Kandiwa, 2013).…”

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Gender Analysis of Agricultural Innovation and Decision Making among Rice Farming Household in Nigeria

Ajewole

Eyitayo

Ojehomon

et al. 2015

JAI

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A B S T R A C TRice importance in food security and contribution to Nigeria economy cannot be overlooked, rice is produced in Nigeria but productivity increase has been a challenge due to many factors. Actors involved in the production process include women who are faced with formidable obstacles. This research analyze agricultural innovation, constraints faced by male and female rice farming households and decision making among rice farming household in Nigeria rice hub. A 3-stage stratified random sampling procedure were used, descriptive statistics, Ordinal Ranking, Least Significant Difference and Women empowerment index were the tool of analysis. The study showed that 23.81% of the respondents are female-headed and 76.19% are maleheaded; more than half of the women (54.29%) are without formal education as compared to men (25.89%). Only 13.39% and 8.57% of the male and female headed household use rice innovation; access to credit, high cost of input and poor soil fertility are the major constraints; women empowerment results showed 76.60% of decision is made by solely by male head, 7.80% is made by female and 7.09% of decisions are jointly made. The study recommends that; innovation usage should be advocated, subsidy should be intensified and gender consideration in decision making be made a priority.

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“…Literature on vulnerability and adaptation in agrarian settings in the Global South has tended to focus on one such marker, gender, as a primary category of difference that influences a person’s vulnerability and their ability to adapt (see Carr and Thompson 2014 for a recent summary of such work). This work generally revolves around three core themes: (i) lack of women’s inclusion in decision making (Mehra and Hill Rojas 2008; Dankelman and Jansen 2010), (ii) gendered inequalities in access to land and land tenure (Brody et al 2008; Quisumbing and Pandolfelli 2008; Djoudi and Brockhaus 2011; FAO 2011), and (iii) gendered agricultural practices and crop choices (Barry and Schlegel 1982; Arndt and Tarp 2000; Carr 2008; Ravera et al 2016). Such themes have emerged out of a long history of influence from the rich collection of knowledge generated within interdisciplinary feminist studies on development policy, practice, and research since the 1970s.…”

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Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings

Thompson-Hall

Carr

Pascual

2016

Ambio

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Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of diverse identity categories, including but not limited to gender, age, seniority, ethnicity, marital status, and livelihoods. Here, we provide a review of relevant literature on this topic and argue that approaching vulnerability to climate change through intersectional understandings of identity can help improve adaptation programming, project design, implementation, and outcomes.

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Agricultural Technology, Risk, and Gender: A CGE Analysis of Mozambique

Cited by 45 publications

References 11 publications

The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda

The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda

Gender Analysis of Agricultural Innovation and Decision Making among Rice Farming Household in Nigeria

Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings

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