Gender, rainfall endowment, and farmers’ heterogeneity in wheat trait preferences in Ethiopia

Gartaula, Hom N.; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos; Jaleta, Moti

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102584

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“…Tesfaye et al (2020) observed that yellow rust resistance, frost resistance, grain yield, and white grain color are among the traits that Ethiopian wheat farmers (no gender and social segregation) preferred the most. By doing a sex-disaggregated analysis, Gartaula et al (2024) observed that women prefer traits that give good taste and have better cooking quality, while men preferred high biomass and resistance to diseases, among Ethiopian wheat growers. In contrast to these straightforward trait preferences, Teeken et al (2021) made a different observation in their cassava study in Nigeria and reported that trait preferences are complex and go beyond men's traits versus women's traits.…”

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Gender, social, household, and ecological factors influencing wheat trait preferences among the women and men farmers in India

Gartaula,

Atreya,

Konath

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The goal of public breeding programs is to develop and disseminate improved varieties to farmers. This strategy aims at providing farming communities with superior crop varieties than they are growing. However, the strategy rarely considers the needs and preferences of farmers, especially gendered preferences, failing to solve real field problems by addressing the differences and inequalities prevalent in the farming communities. Our research examines how personal, household, agronomic and ecological characteristics of wheat growers in Bihar, India’s eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains, affect women and men’s wheat trait choices. Data were obtained from 1,003 households where both male and female respondents from the same household were interviewed. We accounted for 23 traits of wheat from a careful assessment of production, environment, cooking quality, market demand, and esthetic criteria. Binomial logistic regression was used to determine women’s and men’s trait preferences. The results imply that gender influences the preferences of wheat traits. Some traits are favored by both women and men, however, in other instances, there are striking disparities. For example, men choose wheat varieties that are well adapted to extreme climate conditions, have a higher grain yield, and produce chapati with a superior taste, while women prefer wheat types with superior chapati making quality, higher grain yield, and high market prices. Other socioeconomic, agronomic, cultural, and geolocational factors have a considerable impact on trait preferences. These human dimensions of traits preferred by women and men farmers are important for trait combinations to develop breeding product profiles for certain market segments.

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