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Devkota, Rachana, Helen Hambly Odame, John Fitzsimons, Roshan Pudasaini, and Manish N. Raizada. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Picture-Based Agricultural Extension Lessons Developed Using Participatory Testing and Editing with Smallholder Women Farmers in Nepal." Sustainability 12, no. 22 (November 20, 2020): 9699. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12229699.
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Printed pictures are traditional forms of agricultural extension for smallholder farmers. They receive historical academic criticism but remain inexpensive, do not require technical skills (unlike smartphones), and bypass language/literacy barriers. Here, a comprehensive participatory pipeline is described that included 56 Nepalese women farmer editors to develop 100 picture-based lessons. Thereafter, the Theory of Planned Behavior is used as a framework to evaluate 20 diverse lessons using quantitative and qualitative data (Nvivo-11) collected from four groups, focusing on low-literacy women: the women farmer editors (n = 56); smallholder field testers who had prior exposure to extension agents and the actual innovations (control group, n = 120), and those who did not (test group, n = 60); expert stakeholders (extension agents/scientists, n = 25). The expected comprehension difference between farmer groups was non-substantive, suggesting that the participatory editing/testing approaches were effective. There were surprising findings compared to the academic literature: smallholders comprehended the pictures without the help of extension agents, perhaps because of the participatory approaches used; children assisted their mothers to understand caption-based lessons; the farmers preferred printed pictures compared to advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs); and the resource-poor farmers were willing to pay for the printed materials, sufficient to make them cost-neutral/scalable. These findings have implications for smallholder farmers beyond Nepal.
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Othman, Mwanajuma S., Guy Garrod, and Elizabeth Oughton. "Farming groups and empowerment of women smallholder farmers." Development in Practice 31, no. 5 (May 7, 2021): 676–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1911947.
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Mphande, Emelia, Bridget Bwalya Umar, and Chibuye Florence Kunda-Wamuwi. "Gender and Legume Production in a Changing Climate Context: Experiences from Chipata, Eastern Zambia." Sustainability 14, no. 19 (September 21, 2022): 11901. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141911901.
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This study explored legume production by female and men smallholder farmers in Chipata, in a changing climate context. The study objectives were to (i) find out how men and women smallholder legume farmers in Chipata understand climate variability, (ii) investigate how climate variability affects smallholder legume farmers and (iii) identify the different challenges faced by womenfemale and men legume farmers in Chipata. Interviews were conducted with 86 male and 86 female legume farmers selected using stratified random sampling. Purposive sampling was used to select nine key informants and focus group discussants. Qualitative data were analysed using content analysis, while quantitative data were analysed through statistical tests. About half the men and women perceived that climate change in Chipata manifested through a shorter rainy season, late start of rainy season, intra-seasonal droughts and heavy downpours. Some men (34.9%) and women (23.3%) reported that heavy downpours caused common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) flowers to drop off. About 41% of the men farmers interviewed and 23.3% of the women reported witch weed (Striga asiaticapa) on their groundnuts (Arachis hypogaea) fields after periods of heavy rainfall. The men discussants complained that soya bean (Glycine max) fields became waterlogged after prolonged heavy rains, which delayed weeding. Women farmers had challenges accessing hybrid legume seed, inoculants and marketing legumes. Men’s challenges were low market prices for soya beans. The study recommends agricultural interventions should focus on climate-smart legume seed multiplication and certification among legume farmers and promotion of local seed-sharing networks to enhance seed diversity.
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Muli Mwololo, Henry, Jonathan Makau Nzuma, and Cecilia Nyawira Ritho. "Farmer empowerment in agriculture and its association with smallholder farm incomes in Kenya." African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 16, no. 4 (December 31, 2021): 355–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.53936/afjare.2021.16(4).23.
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Poverty in its various forms is widespread among smallholder farmers, including income poverty, rendering interventions that improve household income relevant. We employ a linear model on crosssectional data collected from October to December 2015, with the preceding 12 months as the reference period. The data was from 835 smallholder farmers in Kenya to assess the effect of farmer empowerment in agriculture on farm income. This is a departure from numerous previous studies, which considered the intra-household empowerment of women relative to men on the assumption that men are empowered, which may not always be the case – as we show in this study. The results show that farmer empowerment in agriculture increases per capita farm incomes. Unlike male farmers, who benefit from the overall empowerment in agriculture, female farmers do not, possibly due to constraints in complementary drivers of farm income such as access to productive resources. Interestingly, improving the income domain for female farmers increases their farm incomes more than for their male counterparts. We conclude that farmer empowerment in agriculture is a necessary driver of farm incomes, with the production, leadership and income domains being the viable impact pathways. Thus, development interventions should target specific empowerment domains while controlling for sex differences among the target farmers.
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Asindu, Marsy, Emily Ouma, Gabriel Elepu, and Diego Naziri. "Farmer Demand and Willingness-To-Pay for Sweetpotato Silage-Based Diet as Pig Feed in Uganda." Sustainability 12, no. 16 (August 11, 2020): 6452. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12166452.
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Smallholder livestock farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa are racing against time to find cheaper, nutritious, and sustainable feed alternatives to the more pronounced and expensive commercial concentrates amidst the increasing global demand for livestock products. Lately, many prominent feed conservation technologies have been developed, with a notable example being the sweetpotato silage technology that turns wasted sweetpotato components into a palatable and nutritious livestock feed. However, despite the potential benefits associated with these technologies, the level of demand and acceptance among smallholder farmers remains largely unknown. Thus, this paper assesses the farmer demand and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for sweetpotato silage-based diet as pig feed by smallholder farmers in Uganda. The information for the study was collected through secondary data review and semi-structured interviews to assess farmer WTP. The 256 semi-structured interviews were randomly drawn from 16 purposive clusters formed at a radius of 3 km around 16 farmers piloting sweetpotato silage-based diets for pig feed. The results show that pig farming is mainly the responsibility of women, with farmers’ mean willingness-to-pay price amounting to 0.20 USD per kilogram of sweetpotato silage-based diet. At the mean price, the annual demand for silage was estimated at 17,679 tons, with a market potential of approximately 3.59 million USD. The study concludes that, at the mean willingness-to-pay price, there is a substantial market potential that can be exploited by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) venturing in the livestock feed industry.
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Iqbal, Humera, Anam Afzal, Khizar Hayat, Emma Hand, and David McGill. "Farmer Perception and Resources for Calf Fattening Under Smallholder Production System." Proceedings 36, no. 1 (March 5, 2020): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036117.
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In Pakistan, smallholder farmers are primarily engaged in dairy farming while keeping beef animals as secondary products. Farmers experience poor production due to lack of focus on beef farming, traditional calf rearing practices and limited resources. The objective of this study was to understand the perceptions of smallholder farming households of beef production and the available resources for farmers to engage in beef fattening to increase overall farm profitability. Data was collected using a focus group discussion approach, from farming households in villages across Punjab (n = 7) and Sindh (n = 8). An integrated framework incorporating gender and value-chain considerations was used as a tool to assess farmer interest, goals and resources for rearing livestock. The data was analyzed using content analysis. The majority of farmers interested in calf fattening were more resource rich, with livestock as their primary source of income. A smaller proportion of farmers, with limited resources, also took interest in calf fattening. Women from a few villages mentioned that they were reluctant to be involved in beef businesses due to an emerging focus on childhood education as well as a lack of agency for livestock sales and control over income. Another factor contributing to farmer perceptions of beef included their enterprise focus (dairy or cropping). Overall, smallholder farmers perceived that calf fattening could be a profitable business if claves were reared properly, had adequate feed resources and good market return. Training and farm support targeting these areas is critical for calf fattening to become a profitable market strategy.
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Katuli, Farida Kassim. "UNLEASHING GENDER EQUALITY AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE AMONG SMALLHOLDER FARMERS: RETHINKING IMPLICATION TO POVERTY REDUCTIONS." International Journal of Gender Studies 5, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.47604/ijgs.1187.
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Purpose: The aim of the study is to examine gender equality in accessing knowledge among smallholder farmers with a focus on poverty reductions strategies.
Methodology: This paper draws from the theoretical and empirical literature review of studies on smallholder farmers on access to agricultural knowledge through collection of secondary data and reviewing information that has been gathered from various studies and reports in research and academic institutions, as well as from internet sources in and outside Tanzania.
Findings: The study found the missing link in poverty reduction strategies, thus there is a need to strengthen the strategies and the agriculture policy. The study also, found that women have less access to agricultural knowledge than men due to cultural barriers, low level of literacy, poverty, and lack of ownership of resources such as land and income for sustainability and security.
Unique contribution to theory and policy/recommendation): The focus and outcomes regarding gender equality in relation to access to agricultural information suggests the need for more refined and socioeconomic models that cuts across gender and other social dimension beyond other factors of culture, education etc. This study recommends that there is a need to rethink of the implications to poverty reduction strategies during preparation of the strategies in order to increase accessibility of knowledge among smallholder farmers, especially women. Hence, this study will contribute to theory and policy to enable smallholder farmers to increase productivity and income especially to women.
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Kiwanuka, Rebecca N. L., and Charles Machethe. "Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Zambian Dairy Sector’s Interlocked Contractual Arrangements." Journal of Sustainable Development 9, no. 2 (March 30, 2016): 230. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v9n2p230.
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<p>Linking smallholder farmers to modern value chains through contract agriculture (CA) is one of the rural development strategies being promoted to address the challenge of smallholders’ integration in markets. However, the conditions under which CA enhances smallholders’ prospects for inclusion in modern value chains is still debatable. This paper examines the determinants of smallholders’ participation in Zambian dairy markets through interlocked contractual arrangements (ICAs). A multi-stage sampling design was used to select 266 households from milk shed areas from three districts in Lusaka and Central provinces of Zambia. A double-hurdle model was estimated from data collected through semi-structured questionnaires, key informant interviews and focus group discussions. Key determinants of smallholders’ participation in ICAs included ownership of improved breed animals, MCC milk price, access to dairy marketing information, income from other sources and landholding size. While most of these factors also affected the proportion of milk sold, the following were also important: household head education level, cattle rearing culture, extent of supplier’s dependency on buyer and trust in the exchange relationship. To enhance smallholders’ market participation, there is need to facilitate their access to extension services, infrastructure (breeding centres, MCCs and water) and affordable stock feed, and to offer them an effective milk price that is higher than the spot market price. Promotion efforts should target smallholders that are literate, from a cattle rearing culture, and particularly encourage youth and women participation. There is also need for building trust in the exchange relationship and judicious use of power by processors.</p>
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Nyanga, Progress H. "Factors Influencing Adoption and Area under Conservation Agriculture: A Mixed Methods Approach." Sustainable Agriculture Research 1, no. 2 (July 4, 2012): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/sar.v1n2p27.
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<p>Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) is quite low in most parts of Africa. However, Zambia has been quite successful in increasing adoption of CA among smallholder farmers. Few studies using both quantitative and qualitative approaches have been conducted in Zambia to determine factors influencing adoption of CA. This study uses mixed methods approach to document factors influencing adoption of CA among smallholder farmers under the Conservation Agriculture Project (CAP) in Zambia. From a random sample of 415 smallholder farmers, results showed that 71% had adopted CA. Quantitative analysis indicated that CA trainings, previous experience in minimum tillage, membership in farmer organisations, and ownership of CA tillage equipment significantly increased the likelihood of CA adoption. Number of CA trainings attended, farm size, number of rippers owned and use of herbicide had a significant positive influence on area under CA. Qualitative approaches showed that good rapport with farmers, trust, reciprocity and altruism, monitoring and evaluations, extension strategy, quality and extent of technical knowledge in CA within CFU, and artificial incentives positively influenced adoption of CA. Traditional leadership was reported to enhance adoption of CA in most cases. Prestige was reported to withhold some men from adopting CA basins. Women were very involved in CA basins while men were mostly involved in ADP ripping. Some worldviews of farmers had negative influence on adoption of CA. Donor support and collaboration with the Zambia National Farmers Union and private sector were other contextual factors for the high adoption of CA among sampled smallholder farmers. In the promotion of CA it is important to pay attention to both quantitative and qualitative factors influencing adoption. A mixed methods approach thus can lead to a better understanding of the adoption of CA than a single research strategy approach.</p>
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Gove, Sosário Afonso Semende. "Gender in family farming: an analysis of women's participation in the district of Angónia/ Género na agricultura familiar: uma análise da participação da mulher no distrito de Angónia." Brazilian Journal of Development 8, no. 4 (April 13, 2022): 26668–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34117/bjdv8n4-261.
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Family farming is fundamental to guaranteeing food security throughout the world and the practitioners of this activity are the target of many obstacles to their own development, especially women. Most women do not have legal ownership of the land they use for agriculture, and generally, the land is owned by their husbands with the advantage that husbands often have more schooling than women, and more. In recognition of the sector's challenges, the Mozambican government has prepared and enacted legal instruments that proclaim and defend women's human rights, particularly, and value peasants, in general, regarding the right of access to land. This text analyzes the participation of women in family farming in the district of Angónia. The district is characterized by a total population of 472,164 inhabitants of which 228,441 inhabitants are male. Family farming is the main agricultural activity practiced by smallholder farmers mostly organized in agricultural associations and clubs (strata that make up the association). A focus group discussion and 33 surveys were carried out with the aim of understanding the decision-making power of smallholders in family farming, especially women. The surveys were aimed at members of the Kabango and Chipindu clubs, which are members, respectively, of the Chigwirizano and Canhanja farmers' associations. The focal discussion groups were conducted at the district headquarters and involved smallholder farmers and producers from different associations. The data lead us to conclude that women have little participation in decisions about the activities of the family farming sector, from the definition of the means of production to be used, to the use of the income obtained from the sale of crops. Due to factors such as schooling, social conceptions and jealousy, women are limited to making decisions and, therefore, men's decisions are the most accepted and respected.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women smallholder farmers"
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Owusu-Amankwah, Georgette. "AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND CONTRACT PARTICIPATION AS A MECHANISM FOR ENHANCING SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS: THE CASE OF WOMEN FARMERS IN GHANA." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/75.
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The dissertation consists of three studies that seek to identify school caterer and women farmer constraints that have hindered the buy-local policy mandate of the Ghana School Lunch program, and to explore gendered agricultural technology adoption and contract participation strategies that could facilitate the policy mandate.
The first study documents the constraints that have minimized caterer purchases of school food items from local farmers. The study presents an overview of the Ghana School Lunch Program and the buy-local policy mandate issued to school caterers. Survey data and descriptive analysis are employed to document and discuss the constraints that prevent school caters from purchasing from local farmers as well as the constraints faced by smallholder women farmers in supplying to school caters. The study subsequently discusses school caterers’ compensating variation of a hypothetical policy that requires them to firstly provide recommended portions of vegetables and protein, and secondly include fruits in the lunch of the schoolchildren.
The second study analyses the factors underlying the probability that women smallholder farmers - compared to male farmers - adopt less a) improved seeds, b) fertilizer, c) herbicides and d) pesticides. The study further examines the sensitivity of gender differences in technology adoption to crop choice, particularly maize and legume, as well as the possible heterogeneity of technology adoption differences within rural and peri-urban communities. The adoption of these improved technologies is modeled using multivariate probit regressions. A gender gap is observed among legume farmers for improved seed and pesticide adoption. Moreover, the findings indicate that female maize farmers who have input into all cash crop production decisions are more likely to adopt improved seeds and pesticides. Among legume farmers, the results indicate that female farmers who are educated and have access to credit are more likely to adopt fertilizer, while female legume farmers who have a say in what the use of income generated from cash crop farming are more likely to adopt pesticides. These results imply that policy-makers and development practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa should consider strategies to target and increase educational, financial and productive assets of female farmers in order to close the gender technology gap and increase multiple technology adoption.
The third study examines the use of farm-to-school contracts as a means to provide access to credit for women farmers in rural and peri-urban areas and facilitate the buy-local policy mandate. In particular, the study examines the factors influencing male and female smallholder farmers’ minimum willingness to accept (WTA) farm-to-school-lunch contracts for maize and cowpea beans. The minimum WTA simultaneously measures the decision to participate as well as the minimum price at which the smallholder farmer accepts the contract. Using sex-disaggregated data from a field experiment, a Tobit model is applied to explain the underlying factors influencing male and female smallholder farmer’s minimum WTA for a set of hypothetical maize and cowpea beans contracts. The results for the pooled sample indicate that the delivery at harvest option increases farmers’ minimum willingness to accept both the maize and beans contracts. The study further examines heterogeneity in the minimum WTA among smallholder farmers. The results in the female specification indicate that, the advance pay option lowers the minimum WTA for maize contracts. Additionally, women farmers who own non-farm business, compared to a male with a non-farm business, have a lower minimum WTA for the maize and beans contracts. The results suggest that if the government considers contractual arrangements between school caterers and local farmers to facilitate the buy-local policy mandate, an advance pay option to women farmers may yield lower premiums for contracted food items.
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Munthali, Justice. "Food Accessibility and Nutrition Status of Tenant Women of Reproductive Age and Under-Five Children on Smallholder Tobacco Farms in the Northern Malawi." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63282.
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Introduction: Lack of evidence-based information is an impediment to improve the food
security and nutrition status of vulnerable tobacco tenant women and their children on
smallholder farms in Malawi.
Aim: To assess and describe the food accessibility and nutrition status of the tobacco tenant
women of reproductive age and their under-five children on smallholder farms, as well as to
determine and report correlational relationships amongst demographic and socio-economic
factors, food accessibility measurements and nutrition status indicators.
Design: Quantitative cross-sectional descriptive correlational study.
Setting: Bwengu, Engucwini and Njuyu Extension Planning Areas, Mzimba North district,
Malawi.
Sample: 110 women of reproductive age sampled through a proportional systematic random
sampling technique, and their 139 under-five children. The sample size was calculated using
nQuery version 7 software based on 47% prevalence of malnutrition among under-five
children in Malawi, estimated at 95% CI to the accuracy of 10%.
Methodology: Data were captured through face-to-face interviews during the hunger season.
Food accessibility was captured using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS),
Household Hunger Scale (HHS), Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning
(MAHFP) and Individual Dietary Diversity Scale (IDDS). Nutrition status was measured
using anthropometry according to standard protocol. WHO Anthro software was used to
compute Z-scores (W/A, H/A, W/H and BMI/A) for children, based on WHO standards.
Microsoft Excel was used to calculate BMI for women, based on WHO cut-off points. Stata
software was used to compute regression analyses to establish correlational relationships
between independent and dependent variables. Ethical approval was obtained from the
University of Pretoria, Natural and Agriculture Science Committee (Number EC151215-
028), as well as from the Mzuzu Agriculture Development Division in Malawi. Results: Mean age of the women was 27.3 ± 6 years and 28.8 ± 15 months for the children.
The experience of food insecurity access was severe for 75% of the households. Nearly onefifth
of households were severely hungry, and had adequate food for only about eight months
of the year. The women and their children consumed a mean of two food groups in the
previous 24 hours. For the women, 21% were malnourished. For the children, 20% were
wasted, 31.3% were stunted and 34% were underweight. More male children were
malnourished.
For food accessibility measurements, the multivariable linear regression analysis was used.
The significant factors influencing the severity of the experience of food insecurity access
were loan access (P = 0.015) and household size (P = 0.000). For the prevalence of hunger,
the significant factors were food security and nutrition training (P = 0.046), marital status (P
= 0.045) and household size (P = 0.000). For the annual prevalence of hunger, the significant
factors were labour (P = 0.038), income (P = 0.008) and household size (P = 0.001). For the
dietary diversity, the significant factors were labour (P = 0.001), food security and nutrition
decisions (P = 0.004), mother’s age (P = 0.033) and income (P = 0.000).
Using the multivariable IV regression analysis, the significant factors influencing the BMI of
the women were their age (P = 0.054), loan access (P = 0.004), HFIAS scores (P = 0.007) and
HHS scores (P = 0.001). For the children’s weight-for-age, the significant factors were the
mother’s BMI (P = 0.014), child’s sex (P = 0.005), assets (P = 0.014), mother’s age (P =
0.001) and child’s age (P = 0.015).
Using the multivariable random-effects GLS regression analysis, the significant factors
influencing the children’s height-for-age were the mother’s age (P = 0.004), child’s sex (P =
0.005), assets (P = 0.028) and HFIAS scores (P = 0.006). For the children’s weight-forheight,
the significant factors were the mother’s BMI (P = 0.032), MAHFP scores (P =
0.029), child’s age (P = 0.008) and income (P = 0.001). For the children’s BMI-for-age, the
significant factors were the mother’s BMI (P = 0.030), mother’s age (P = 0.029), income (P =
0.002) and assets (P = 0.047).
Conclusion: The food accessibility and nutrition status of the tobacco tenant women and
their children were seriously poor. The significant factors influencing food accessibility and nutrition status were loan access, household size, food security and nutrition training, marital
status, labour, income, assets, food security and nutrition decisions, mother’s BMI, mother’s
age, child’s age, child’s sex, HFIAS scores, HHS scores and MAHFP scores. The study
findings offer clues to policy makers on where to direct interventions to improve food
accessibility and nutrition status of the tobacco tenant women and their children in Malawi.Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Ha, Tuan Minh. "Establishing an evolutionary learning laboratory for labour saving innovations for women smallholder farmers in Vietnam." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/119567.
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Various shortcomings have been revealed in many development efforts using conventional supply-driven and/or top-down approaches with linear vision in developing countries, including labour saving initiatives for the disadvantaged and marginalised groups. Various failures, unintended consequences and even counterproductive outcomes have been evident. Solutions and interventions tend to ignore local contexts, affordability, participation and needs of targeted groups. The inability of traditional approaches to deal with complexities and uncertainties of socio-cultural contexts, interwoven with relationships of both environmental and human factors across regions have highlighted a high need for developing and embracing more holistic and participatory approaches and structured frameworks to address complex problems. In response to gender-biased labour hardship of women smallholders in the developing world, this study employed the systems-based Evolutionary Learning Laboratory (ELLab) approach, aiming at formulating the most economically, environmentally, culturally and socially appropriate systemic solutions to labour constraints. The latter is a prominent issue pre-determined by a funding body, for women small-scale farmers in rural areas of Haiphong, Vietnam. The first five steps of the ELLab were implemented with active participation of representatives of the target group and relevant stakeholders in the planning phase. This started from identifying issues, building local capacity, engagement and empowerment of the participants throughout problem structuring and decision making processes via a participative, interactive and co-learning environment towards developing a systemic management plan to address the real needs of the women farmers. In-depth analyses through a baseline survey and a number of interactive workshops helped to understand and frame the context through developing a big picture (systems model) of the current situation. The model depicts a complex life situation and interconnectedness of various factors influencing the quality of life of the women farmers. Increasing income turned out to be the most urgent need, followed by the needs for reducing work pressure and improving health. Labour hardship was found just part of many interrelated issues. The decision making process with the aid of systems and relevant management tools enabled the participants to define systemic interventions and develop an overall systemic management plan to address their real needs. The identified solutions support one another to address the labour hardship of the women and improve the quality of their lives as a whole. This study has clearly proven the value and validity of the systems-based participative ELLab as an effective and powerful problem-structuring and solving framework to deal with complex problem across contexts and regions. It embraces bottom-up and participatory approaches in practice, builds capacity of local people and changes the mindsets of stakeholders involved from traditional linear and silo thinking to a more holistic and interconnected way of thinking that leads to appropriate actions and mutual collaboration. The study has addressed drawbacks of other approaches and provided substantial theoretical and practical contributions to various disciplines. These include community development, operational research, gender studies, agricultural systems research and development, participatory action research, project stakeholder and knowledge management, and organisational learning. It has also laid a strong foundation for future research in the mentioned fields.Thesis (Ph.D.) (Research by Publication) -- University of Adelaide, Business School, 2016.
Books on the topic "Women smallholder farmers"
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Due, Jean M. Women and technology in African smallholder agriculture. Urbana, IL: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.
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Chaney, Elsa. Women, migration and the decline of smallholder agriculture. [East Lansing, Mich.]: Michigan State University, 1985.
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Wilson, David. Small farmers, big change: Scaling up impact in smallholder agriculture. Rugby, England: Practical Action Pub., 2011.
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Bekunda, Mateete, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, and Jonathan Odhong, eds. Sustainable agricultural intensification: a handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa. Wallingford: CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781800621602.0000.
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Abstract This book presents some of the improved agricultural technologies that were validated by the Africa RISING Project in East and Southern Africa (ESA), focusing on smallholder farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, and working in partnership with development (scaling) institutions. It consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 shows how gender concerns must be woven into all sustainable intensification (SI) interventions to produce equitable outcomes. It describes activities to enhance women's participation, measure the benefits, and transform gender relations. Chapter 2 describes the performance of new cereal and legume crop varieties introduced by Africa RISING into agroecosystems in which they had not been tested before. Chapter 3 presents technologies to diversify the common maize-dominated cropping systems and address human nutrition, improve soil organic matter, and maximize the benefits of applying fertilizer. Chapter 4 presents technologies for replacing the nutrients lost from cropped fields with external fertilizer sources in a manner that minimizes the consequences of too little or too much application. Chapter 5 is about soil conservation. Chapter 6 presents conservation agriculture, which can help smallholder farmers build better resilience to the consequences of climate change and variable weather. Improved technologies for drying, shelling, and hermetic storage of grain are presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 provides information to help farmers use outputs from crop production systems to formulate supplementary feed. Chapter 9 follows with technologies that allow well-planned nutrition-specific interventions (recipes) to utilize various livestock and crop products to enhance family nutrition, with specific attention paid to diets for children. Chapter 10 presents examples from the preceding chapters to illustrate the potential impacts of interconnected technologies. Lastly, Chapter 11 presents experiences and lessons learned from using these approaches to transfer and scale the technologies.
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Wilson, David, Claire Harvey, and Kirsty Wilson. Small Farmers, Big Change: Scaling up Impact in Smallholder Agriculture. Practical Action Publishing, 2011.
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Mvula, Peter, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu. Intensification, Crop Diversification, and Gender Relations in Malawi. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799283.003.0007.
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In this chapter a variety of methods were used to collect data to study smallholders in Malawi. The surveys were complemented by a set of qualitative interviews to establish gender dynamics in agriculture and for livelihoods. Key informant interviews were conducted with agricultural personnel in the sampled districts and focus group discussions were held with some farmers. For a bigger picture of the agricultural policies and practices, the study relied on a review of key documents and publications by government and other agencies implementing agricultural programmes in the country. Descriptive statistics demonstrate that a shift from maize and tobacco to Irish potatoes, groundnuts, and soya beans in the areas under study has provided an opportunity for smallholder farmers to diversify and increase production and thus improve their livelihoods. Another noticeable change has been the increased participation of women in the production and marketing of crops.
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Agarwal, Bina. Food Security, Productivity, and Gender Inequality. Edited by Ronald J. Herring. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195397772.013.002.
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This chapter examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against the backdrop of rising and volatile food prices, the vulnerabilities created by regional concentrations of food production, imports and exports, the feminization of agriculture, and the projected effect of climate change on crop yields. The chapter outlines the constraints women face as farmers, in terms of their access to land, credit, production inputs, technology, and markets. It argues that there is substantial potential for increasing agricultural output by helping women farmers overcome these production constraints and so bridging the productivity differentials between them and male farmers. This becomes even more of an imperative, given the feminization of agriculture. The chapter spells out the mechanisms, especially institutional, for overcoming the constraints and the inequalities women face as producers, consumers, and home food managers. Institutionally, a group approach to farming could, for instance, enable women and other small holders to enhance their access to land and inputs, benefit from economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power. Other innovative solutions discussed here include the creation of Public Land Banks that would empower the smallholder, and the establishment of agricultural resource centers that would cater especially to small-scale women farmers.
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Smith, Kiah. Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods: Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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Smith, Kiah. Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods: Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Smith, Kiah. Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods: Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Zvokuomba, Kwashirai, and Kezia Batisai. "‘Can Women Own Land’? Land Inheritances Convolutions: Evidence from the Zimbabwean Resettlement Areas." In Food Security for African Smallholder Farmers, 375–88. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6771-8_22.
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Sako, Dramane, Mamary Traoré, Folocoum Doumbia, Fodé Diallo, Moussa Fané, and Issoufou Kapran. "Kolokani Groundnut Innovation Platform Activities and Achievements Through TL III Project in Mali." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 51–64. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_4.
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AbstractGroundnut productions have been declining in Mali in spite of several new improved varieties being released, the key problem being inadequacy of the seed supply system. To solve this problem, Kolokani MSP was established in 2012 and reorganized with support from TL III in 2015 to include more stakeholders in the groundnut value chain—farmers particularly women, farmer associations, cooperative societies, seed producers, agro-dealers, grain traders, processors, research and extension. Four new varieties Fleur11, ICGV 86124, ICGV 86015, and ICGV 86024 were supplied to the platform for FPVS and among them two, Fleur 11 and ICGV 86124 were preferred for their high yields and large grain size under farmer conditions. Through training of trainers, the different members of the platform reached 1246 farmers among them 928 women with improved groundnut seed production, aflatoxin management, seed business plans, and small-scale mechanization. A total 47 FPVS, 50 Demonstrations, and three multi-locational variety trials were conducted annually from 2016 to 2018. Kolokani platform have played an important role in groundnut value chain by producing and marketing 85 tons groundnut certified seed of these varieties annually for farmers. This is expected to stop the national productivity decline while improving platform members’ livelihoods and nutrition status.
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Lukurugu, Gerald Alex, Omari Kalanje Mponda, Essegbemon Akpo, Emmanuel S. Monyo, Joseph Nzunda, Happy Daudi, Athanas Joseph, Hamphfrey George Mlimbila, David Ndolelwa, and Charles Mkandawile. "Groundnut Seed Production and Distribution Through Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Southern Region of Tanzania." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 9–30. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_2.
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AbstractSouthern Groundnut Platform (SGP) was established in 2016 to enhance seed access and adoption of improved groundnut varieties by farmers. The platform serves all districts in Lindi and Mtwara regions and Tunduru district in Ruvuma region. The platform has 53 members of which 22 are females and 31 are males. Since its establishment, there has been a marked increase in farm advisory services using government extension officers, community extension services and lead farmers. Groundnut seed production and distribution networks have increased to include more actors such as NGOs, seed companies, farmers groups and individual seed entrepreneurs. The increased seed access to farmers in the southern zone has contributed to 11% increase in area under cultivation resulting in 15% increase in groundnut production in Nanyumbu district between 2012 and 2018. New market linkages formed helped improve farm gate prices by 80% (from Tshs. 1000 to 1800). The platform also introduced 29 new labour saving technologies reducing women drudgery and increasing farmer improved varieties choice from 3 to 11 new varieties released between 2009 and 2018.
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Miningou, Amos, Appolinaire S. Traoré, Essegbemon Akpo, Issoufou Kapran, Bertin M. Zagré, Gabriel A. Diasso, Yamba Kienthéga, and Apolinaire Zoungrana. "An Analysis of Groundnut Innovation Platform Achievements in Brokering Improved Varieties to Communities in TL III Project in Burkina Faso." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 31–49. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_3.
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AbstractAccess to seeds of improved groundnut varieties is the most critical problem of farmers in Burkina Faso. Firstly, majority do not know the existence of improved varieties and secondly the price is not affordable to them. Based on the above, the INERA groundnut breeders’ team established four innovation platforms on groundnut in the Region of Centre-East, Region of Centre-North, Region of Centre-West and Region de la Boucle of Mouhoun. Through these platforms, Quality Declared Seeds (QDS) were produced for the first time in Burkina Faso in 2016 with support from the Tropical Legumes phase III (TL III) project. Since then, QDS and certified seeds are produced and sold to the local communities at affordable small packs in order to make improved seeds accessible to the poor farmers. So far about 10,000 persons have been reached with small packs. Farmers, agricultural extension and NGO staff have been trained in groundnut seed production, demonstrations, field days and Farmer Participatory Variety Selection (FPVS) to promote the improved varieties and the best agronomic practices. Farmers’ yields increased from 500–700 kg/ha to 1200–1500 kg/ha increasing women and youth incomes from 200 USD to 800 USD/year only for those who grow groundnut during the rainy season. Those who grow during rainy and off-seasons their incomes can reach 1200–1500 USD. Links with financial institutions have facilitated access to credit for these farmers. In the future, the Platform sustainability will be assured through members’ annual financial contributions and strong production contracts among traders, processors and farmers.
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Moyo, Mukani, Van-Den Truong, Josip Simunovic, Jean Pankuku, George Ooko Abong, Francis Kweku Amagloh, Richard Fuchs, et al. "Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Puree: A Breakthrough Product for the Bakery Sector in Africa." In Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations, 145–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92022-7_5.
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AbstractReplacing some of the wheat flour in breads and pastries with OFSP (orange-fleshed sweetpotato) puree can increase the market demand for these nutritious varieties and would offer economic opportunities for smallholders, including women and youths. The technology to make sweetpotato puree has been well developed in industrialized countries since the 1960s. Techniques fine-tuned by RTB allow OFSP puree to be stored in plastic bags for 6 months, without refrigeration. Private companies in Malawi and Kenya are now manufacturing the puree and selling it to bakeries that substitute OFSP puree for up to 40% of the white wheat flour in bread and other baked goods. Consumers like the bread that is sold in supermarkets and bakeries. Food safety protocols ensure that the puree is part of safe, healthy products. The OFSP seed is available to smallholder farmers, who are linked with processors who buy the roots. Business models suggest that processing puree is profitable. The Scaling Readiness approach is helping to ensure that more farmers, processors, and consumers benefit from OFSP.
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Ebo, Nathalie Gogue, Ifeoma Umunna, and Jesudunsin Osinaike. "The influence of religion on the empowerment and economic mobility of smallholder women dairy farmers in Nigeria." In Muslim Women in the Economy, 195–213. New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge research in religion and development: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429263194-12.
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Iorlamen, Teryima, Lucky O. Omoigui, Alpha Y. Kamara, Umar Garba, Nater Iyorkaa, Temitope Ademulegun, and Reuben Solomon. "Developing Sustainable Cowpea Seed Systems for Smallholder Farmers through Innovation Platforms in Nigeria: Experience of TL III Project." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 125–42. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_9.
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AbstractLimited access to and low use of quality seed of improved varieties rank among the topmost causes of persistently low cowpea yields in Nigeria. This paper presents experiences under the Tropical Legume III (TL III) project in facilitating the access of smallholder farmers to seeds of improved cowpea varieties through the establishment of innovation platforms (IPs) that were introduced in 2015 as part of the activities of the TL III project. There was rapid adoption and use of newly released varieties by farmers as a result of increased awareness of improved varieties through multi-media and user-friendly communication strategies and tools. During the four years of the project (2015–2018), a total of seven multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs), which comprised six seed companies, 46 farmer groups, five public seed enterprises, two NGOs, and 718 individual seed entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, were established/strengthened to link actors in the cowpea value chain. Community-based seed producers were linked to seed companies while seed companies were linked to research institutions to access early generation seed (EGS). These activities led to the production of over 532 tons of basic seed and 8366 tons of certified/QDS seed of improved cowpea varieties that were entrenched in the seed system. Yield also increased almost twofold from 500 to 900 kg/ha on farmers’ field. Women and youth incomes increased as a result of seed entrepreneurship activities. The small packs approach was an efficient and cost-effective means of reaching more farmers with affordable quantities of seed and a wide range of preferred varieties.
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Singh, R. B., R. S. Paroda, and Malavika Dadlani. "Science, Technology and Innovation." In India Studies in Business and Economics, 213–50. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0763-0_8.
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AbstractScience, technology and innovation (STI), targeted to solve both generic and location-specific challenges, are key drivers for transforming agri-food systems. These can transform the sustenance and low return livelihood to a profitable and respectable occupation for smallholder farmers, while motivating, attracting and empowering youth and women in agriculture. A paradigm shift is needed to: i) increase productivity, profitability, inclusiveness and efficiency of human engagement, ii) achieve complete nutrition security, iii) address the challenges of climate change, iv) adopt environment-friendly sustainable practices, and v) establish efficient farmer-market linkages. To achieve the desired goals, this chapter highlights effective pathways for: i) scaling innovations by combining ITK, conventional methods, and adopting NextGen cutting edge technologies evolved nationally or internationally, ii) enduring STI through a Gold Class education system, and iii) leveraging strong public-private partnership. The chapter also recommends increased investments in R&D, urgent need for enabling policy environment for scaling innovations and suggests clear transformative action points.
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Conway, Gordon, Ousmane Badiane, and Katrin Glatzel. "African Farms and Farmers." In Food for All in Africa, 11–31. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501743887.003.0002.
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This chapter describes how African farmers manage to overcome the constraints impeding them, both natural and those caused by cultural and economic diversity and by political boundaries. It reveals that over 80 percent of African farmers are smallholders, and in many respects they are highly efficient. At the same time, medium-scale farms, those between five and one hundred hectares, account for a rising share of total farmland. Nevertheless, African populations are growing extremely fast, and in many countries smallholder farm sizes are shrinking and land is becoming more intensively and extensively cultivated, leading to further degradation. The chapter indicates that the way forward lies in farmers developing resilient livelihoods that encompass sources of income off farm. Diversity in the livelihood includes rural women, young people, and other disadvantaged people, all of whom need to integrate with agricultural and agribusiness value chains.
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"Supporting smallholder women farmers in potato cultivation." In Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 1, 305–16. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781351114455-20.
Full textReports on the topic "Women smallholder farmers"
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Morgan, Miranda, and Alastair Stewart. Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Tajikistan: A final evaluation of Oxfam's Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in Tajikistan. Oxfam GB, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2019.5372.
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Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains targeting women smallholder farmers in areas of poverty. The programme aimed to benefit 63,600 people (10,600 smallholder households) living in Zambia, Tajikistan and Bangladesh through increases in household income, women having greater influence over key livelihood decisions within their households and communities, and engaging in livelihoods more resilient to shocks, such as natural disasters and market volatility. In Tajikistan, the Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) programme has been implemented in five districts of Khatlon Province by Oxfam in partnership with local public organizations, League of Women Lawyers of Tajikistan (LWL) and Neksigol Mushovir. The GEM programme in Tajikistan sought to directly improve the livelihoods of an estimated 3,000 smallholder farmers (60 percent women) in fruit and vegetable value chains through improved production skills, resilience to climate risks, access to market opportunities and greater engagement with market players, and strengthened ability to influence private sector and government actors. The evaluation was designed to investigate if and how the GEM programme might have contributed to its intended outcomes – not only in the lives of individual women smallholder farmers targeted by the programme but also to changes in their communities and the larger market system. It also sought to capture any potential unintended outcomes of the programme.
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Mahofa, Godfrey, Chrispen Sukume, and Vine Mutyasira. Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Relations and Women Empowerment in Smallholder Farm Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe. APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2022.022.
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Agricultural commercialisation has been identified as an important part of the structural transformation process, as the economy grows from subsistence to highly commercialised entities that rely on the market for both inputs and for the sale of crops. However, this process is likely to leave some sections of society behind, particularly women. Little empirical evidence is available in sub-Saharan Africa that examines the relationship between commercialisation and women’s empowerment. This paper fills this gap and uses data from two rounds of surveys of smallholder farmers conducted in Zimbabwe to show that agricultural commercialisation reduces women’s empowerment, while crop diversification improves women’s empowerment.
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Savani, Manu, and Alastair Stewart. Making Market Systems Work for Women Dairy Farmers in Bangladesh: A final evaluation of Oxfam's Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in Bangladesh. Oxfam GB, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2019.5365.
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Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains targeting women smallholder farmers in areas of poverty. The programme aimed to benefit 63,600 people (10,600 smallholder households) living in Zambia, Tajikistan and Bangladesh through increases in household income, women having greater influence over key livelihood decisions within their households and communities, and engaging in livelihoods more resilient to shocks, such as natural disasters and market volatility. The GEM programme in Bangladesh was implemented under Oxfam Bangladesh’s flagship REE-CALL programme (Resilience, through Economic Empowerment, Climate Adaptation, Leadership and Learning). GEM operated in seven districts across Bangladesh, with the project activities implemented by seven local partners. The project aimed to establish 84 producer groups for smallholder dairy farmers, and this was achieved during the first year. Building on these local networks, GEM aimed to deliver a suite of training and support covering assertiveness, rights and leadership skills, agricultural practice and disaster risk management. The evaluation was designed to investigate if and how the GEM programme might have contributed to its intended outcomes – not only in the lives of individual women smallholder farmers targeted by the programme but also in changes in their communities and the larger market system. It also sought to capture any potential unintended outcomes of the programme.
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Morgan, Miranda, Alastair Stewart, and Simone Lombardini. Making Market Systems Work for Women Farmers in Zambia: A final evaluation of Oxfam's Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. Oxfam GB, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2019.5389.
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Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains targeting women smallholder farmers in areas of poverty. The programme aimed to benefit 63,600 people (10,600 smallholder households) living in Zambia, Tajikistan and Bangladesh through increases in household income, women having greater influence over key livelihood decisions within their households and communities, and engaging in livelihoods more resilient to shocks, such as natural disasters and market volatility. In Zambia, the GEM programme has been implemented in four districts of the Copperbelt Province in coordination with implementing partners Heifer Programmes International and the Sustainable Agricultural Programme (SAP). The GEM programme in the Copperbelt seeks to directly improve the livelihoods of an estimated 4,000 smallholder farmers (75 percent women) in the dairy and soya value chains through improved production skills, resilience to climate risks, access to market opportunities, greater engagement with market players and strengthened ability to influence private sector and government actors. The evaluation was designed to investigate if and how the GEM programme might have contributed to its intended outcomes – not only in the lives of individual women smallholder farmers targeted by the programme but also to changes in their communities and the larger market system. It also sought to capture any potential unintended outcomes of the programme.
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Stewart, Alastair, and Miranda Morgan. A Final Evaluation of Oxfam's Gendered Enterprise and Markets Programme (2014-18): Summary of findings. Oxfam GB, December 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2019.5358.
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Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains targeting women smallholder farmers in areas of poverty. The programme aimed to benefit 63,600 people (10,600 smallholder households) living in Zambia, Tajikistan and Bangladesh through increases in household income, women having greater influence over key livelihood decisions within their households and communities, and engaging in livelihoods more resilient to shocks, such as natural disasters and market volatility. This evaluation was designed to investigate if and how the GEM programme contributed to its intended outcomes – not only in the lives of individual women smallholder farmers targeted by the programme but also in terms of changes in their communities and the larger market system. It also sought to capture any potential unintended outcomes of the programme. This summary report outlines the key findings from the three individual country evaluations in Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Zambia - for which the full reports are also available.
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Msukwa, Chimwemwe, Jane Burt, and John Colvin. Good Governance in Malawi: Impact evaluation of the ‘Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi’ project. Oxfam GB, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2021.7345.
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The EU-funded ‘Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi’ project was implemented from 2015 to 2020 by a consortium made up of Oxfam in Malawi, LANDNET (until 2018) and CEPA, with technical support from DAI. The objective was to pilot, test and recommend for scale-up improved gender-sensitive land governance systems. This Effectiveness Review evaluates the success of this project to achieve the following focal outcomes: (1) By 2019, laws have been enacted that are relevant to the registration and titling of customary estates and are ready for implementation and (2) By 2020, women and men in two or more of the target Group Village Headpersons (GVHs) in Phalombe, Kasungu and Rumphi districts have secure land tenure with supporting land governance structures. Using a process tracing approach, achievement of these focal outcomes and the consortium's contribution were assessed. Find out more by reading the full report now.
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Niño Eslava, Daniel, and Karine Gatellier. Collective Action to Support Family Farming in Colombia. Institute of Development Studies, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/core.2022.013.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit small- scale farmers, particularly women, very hard in Latin America. RIMISP – Latin American Center for Rural Development – has been conducting participatory research to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on smallholder farmers in the department of Huila, in Colombia. The team has been working closely with the Secretariat of Agriculture and Mining of the Government of Huila to set up a Rural Dialogue Group to promote discussion on the project’s findings with local stakeholders. These discussions are helping to shape the local government’s agenda around these issues. The research team is also strengthening the capacity of small producer organisations to better access public programmes.
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Thanda Kyaw, Ai. Socio-Economic Impacts of Foot and Mouth Disease Among Cattle Farmers in Sagaing and Mandalay Areas, Myanmar. O.I.E (World Organisation for Animal Health), May 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.20506/standz.2784.
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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Sub-Regional Representation for South East Asia (OIE SRR-SEA) implemented the Stop Transboundary Animal Diseases and Zoonoses (STANDZ) Programme funded by AusAID to strengthen the veterinary services and effectively manage the control and eradication of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. The purpose of the study is to understand how FMD outbreaks impact smallholder farmers, both men and women, at the household and village level and how control and eradication of FMD would benefit them. Specific aims are to estimate the direct and indirect socio-economic costs associated with the outbreaks of FMD as well as of the measures taken by farmers to deal with such outbreaks and to identify issues that contributed to the socio-economic impacts of FMD outbreaks and opportunities to reduce them.
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Capretti, Lisa, Amrita Saha, Farai Jena, and Fred M. Dzanku. Agricultural Technology, Food Security and Nutrition: Insight From Oil Palm Smallholders in Ghana. APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2022.041.
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The use of agricultural technologies has facilitated gains from agricultural commercialisation for smallholder farmers in Africa. Practices that involve these technologies play an important role in tackling poverty and food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, the link between agricultural technology practices, food security and nutrition is important, and has relevant implications for policymaking. Using new panel data for oil palm producers in Ghana from the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) consortium, this paper sheds light on the relationship between the use of agricultural practices, food security and nutrition outcomes, focusing especially on the mediating role of women empowerment.
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Westrope, Clay. Governance in Tajikistan: Evaluation of the women smallholder farmer advocacy campaign. Oxfam GB, June 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2017.0094.
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