Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective

Broeck, Goedele Van den; Hoyweghen, Kaat Van; Maertens, Miet

doi:10.1111/dpr.12153

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“…Choice experiments have become a popular tool to evaluate the preferences of respondents in marketing research [43,44], labor economics [45,46], agricultural technology studies [18,[21][22][23], and studies on the adoption of sustainability standards [47,48]. Several studies have used choice experiments to analyze the adoption of improved varieties among smallholder farmers in some staple food crop sectors, including a study on maize in Zimbabwe [18], on rice and pearl millet in India [20,22], on beans in Burundi [21], and on sorghum and teff in Ethiopia [23].…”

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Smallholders’ Preferences for Improved Quinoa Varieties in the Peruvian Andes

2018

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Due to an increase in international demand, quinoa production has boomed tremendously in the Andes since the early 2010s. This has led to significant investments into developing improved varieties for large-scale agribusinesses, but breeding programs are not tailored to the needs of smallholders. In this paper, we study farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for improved quinoa varieties in the Junín region in Peru. We use data from a choice experiment among 458 smallholders and estimate generalized multinomial logit models to control for preference and scale heterogeneity. We find that farmers generally prefer improved varieties over traditional varieties, with mildew-resistance as the most important crop trait. In general, farmers prefer varieties that are characterized by larger grain sizes, higher yield levels, lower levels of saponin, and a reduced maturation period. Yet, food-insecure farmers are found to be indifferent to early maturity and a larger grain size, which can be explained by a lower degree of commercialization among these farmers. Our results imply that developing mildew-tolerant and higher-yielding varieties with a medium to low saponin content is a priority if investments in quinoa technologies are to benefit small-scale and food insecure farmers in the Andean highlands of Peru.

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Smallholders’ Preferences for Improved Quinoa Varieties in the Peruvian Andes

2018

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“…The recent development of an agro-industry sector in Senegal has created substantial formal employment in rural areas, of which many are occupied by women. Nevertheless, employment conditions in the sector are highly gendered and job quality is generally low (Maertens & Swinnen, 2012;Van den Broeck et al, 2016). This paper makes an innovative and relevant contribution to the current literature.…”

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Gender Inequality and Job Satisfaction in Senegal: A Multiple Mediation Model

2022

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Women are often found to be in inferior jobs with lower wages and lower job quality, but to report higher job satisfaction. This gender-job satisfaction paradox is documented for high-income countries and is explained by gender inequality in job quality and expectations. In this paper we document this paradox for a low-income country. We explore the complex relationship between gender, job quality and job satisfaction among agro-industry workers in Senegal, using primary data from a comprehensive worker survey. We use a multiple mediation model to disentangle direct and indirect pathways through which gender relates to job satisfaction. We find that women's job satisfaction is higher, despite earning lower wages, receiving fewer nonwage benefits, being more in casual employment, and working fewer hours than men. Moreover, job satisfaction varies more strongly with gender than with worker education, wages or other job quality characteristics. We find that gender inequality in job quality mitigates the positive relationship between gender and job satisfaction, with wage and nonwage benefits as major mediating variables. Our results imply that reducing gender inequality in wages and other job quality characteristics would increase women's job satisfaction. Our findings bring some nuance to the debate around the gender-job satisfaction paradox, and refute the idea that reducing gender inequality in job quality would reduce women's job satisfaction and wellbeing because of increases in women's expectations.

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“…Por otra parte, se relaciona con el rol tradicional de la mujer al cuidado de los hijos y el hogar, en el caso de los hombres se asocia a la búsqueda de mayores ingresos. Mientras que Lanfranchi et al (2010) y Van den Broeck et al, (2016) indican que este tipo de decisiones son mecanismos de empoderamiento por parte de los trabajadores agrícolas ante el proceso de flexibilización laboral que imponen las grandes empresas agroexportadoras. Respecto a las preferencias declaradas en el tipo de actividad se encontró que hay 1.25 veces más predilección por realizar tareas de corte y cosecha que labores generales de campo, aunque prefieren actividades generales a diligencias en el área de empaque (1.19 veces).…”

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“…No obstante, son pocas las empresas que cuentan con médicos o clínicas dentro de los campos de cultivo, para brindar el servicio. Un comportamiento similar en las preferencias se encontró en la mano de obra peruana (Schuster et al, 2019) y en mujeres senegalesas con bajos niveles de empoderamiento (Van den Broeck et al, 2016), mientras que en Etiopía los trabajadores mejor preparados tenían preferencias por contar con un trabajo con un ambiente saludable y en el caso de las mujeres era indispensable la seguridad laboral (Staelens et al, 2014).…”

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Preferencias laborales en un enclave agroexportador hortofrutícola de Baja California, México

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El objetivo principal de investigación fue estimar y analizar las preferencias laborales declaradas de jornaleros agrícolas en un enclave de producción hortofrutícola de exportación en Baja California, México. A partir de un estudio de caso se estimó el valor económico de ciertas prestaciones y atributos laborales inherentes al trabajo agrícola mediante el uso de los experimentos de elección discreta. La investigación se realizó en el Valle de San Quintín, en el estado de Baja California, una región agrícola vinculada a la globalización por su proximidad fronteriza a los Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) y con una presencia dominante de jornaleros provenientes de regiones del sureste mexicano. Se realizaron 124 encuestas considerando aspectos sociodemográficos y laborales relevantes. Los resultados sugieren preferencias por actividades laborales en época de cosecha, contratos temporales, en cambio el acceso a servicio médico como servicio de la unidad de producción es el atributo que rige las elecciones de los jornaleros atribuyéndosele un valor económico de 3.9 dólares estadounidenses/día.

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Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective

Cited by 17 publications

References 48 publications

Smallholders’ Preferences for Improved Quinoa Varieties in the Peruvian Andes

Smallholders’ Preferences for Improved Quinoa Varieties in the Peruvian Andes

Gender Inequality and Job Satisfaction in Senegal: A Multiple Mediation Model

Preferencias laborales en un enclave agroexportador hortofrutícola de Baja California, México

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