Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa

This study assesses the impact of climate change (CC) adaptation on farm-level revenue among 500 soybean farmers randomly selected in three districts in Togo using endogenous switching regression method. The survey results indicate that only 40.37% of the women have adapted to CC against 59.62% of t...

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Autores principales: Ali, E., Awade, N.E., Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Informa UK Limited 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108814
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description This study assesses the impact of climate change (CC) adaptation on farm-level revenue among 500 soybean farmers randomly selected in three districts in Togo using endogenous switching regression method. The survey results indicate that only 40.37% of the women have adapted to CC against 59.62% of the men. Moreover, being member of farmer-based organization (FBO), access to credit and extension services, agricultural training of women are the main factors that increase the likelihood of adaptation. The gender-differentiated impact shows that women would earn more than men from adaptation, while losing compared to men if they do not take any adaptation actions. The loss from non-adapting to CC will increase by 0.268% of the soybean revenue. However, the heterogeneity effects suggest further assessment on the adopted technology in soybean farming in the study areas. Adaptation policy that seeks to ensure food security and enhance farmers’ welfare in subsistence agriculture should consider the gender dimension, while reviewing the financial policy in terms of affordability, access of extension services and supporting FBO will increase technologies adoption and farming revenue.
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spelling CGSpace1088142025-11-11T10:29:13Z Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa Ali, E. Awade, N.E. Abdoulaye, Tahirou adaptation climate change gender soybeans rural development agricultural economics This study assesses the impact of climate change (CC) adaptation on farm-level revenue among 500 soybean farmers randomly selected in three districts in Togo using endogenous switching regression method. The survey results indicate that only 40.37% of the women have adapted to CC against 59.62% of the men. Moreover, being member of farmer-based organization (FBO), access to credit and extension services, agricultural training of women are the main factors that increase the likelihood of adaptation. The gender-differentiated impact shows that women would earn more than men from adaptation, while losing compared to men if they do not take any adaptation actions. The loss from non-adapting to CC will increase by 0.268% of the soybean revenue. However, the heterogeneity effects suggest further assessment on the adopted technology in soybean farming in the study areas. Adaptation policy that seeks to ensure food security and enhance farmers’ welfare in subsistence agriculture should consider the gender dimension, while reviewing the financial policy in terms of affordability, access of extension services and supporting FBO will increase technologies adoption and farming revenue. 2020-04-01 2020-07-20T11:33:22Z 2020-07-20T11:33:22Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108814 en Open Access application/pdf Informa UK Limited Ali, E., Awade, N.E., & Abdoulaye, T. (2020). Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers’ revenue in rural Togo, west Africa. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 6(1): 1743625, 1-15.
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climate change
gender
soybeans
rural development
agricultural economics
Ali, E.
Awade, N.E.
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa
title Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa
title_full Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa
title_fullStr Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa
title_full_unstemmed Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa
title_short Gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers' revenue in rural Togo, west Africa
title_sort gender and impact of climate change adaptation on soybean farmers revenue in rural togo west africa
topic adaptation
climate change
gender
soybeans
rural development
agricultural economics
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