Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania
Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying seed-related value chains and country contexts in Africa south of the Sahara. The cases include chicken seed dissemination...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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| author | Gumucio, Tatiana Kramer, Berber Ragasa, Catherine Pyburn, Rhiannon Galie, Alessandra Aredo, Samson Dejene Jumba, Humphrey Nimorme, Eva Omondi, Immaculate A. Sufian, Farha Deba |
| author_browse | Aredo, Samson Dejene Galie, Alessandra Gumucio, Tatiana Jumba, Humphrey Kramer, Berber Nimorme, Eva Omondi, Immaculate A. Pyburn, Rhiannon Ragasa, Catherine Sufian, Farha Deba |
| author_facet | Gumucio, Tatiana Kramer, Berber Ragasa, Catherine Pyburn, Rhiannon Galie, Alessandra Aredo, Samson Dejene Jumba, Humphrey Nimorme, Eva Omondi, Immaculate A. Sufian, Farha Deba |
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| description | Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying seed-related value chains and country contexts in Africa south of the Sahara. The cases include chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania, tilapia seed production in Ghana, and marketing and trading of improved maize and sorghum seeds in Kenya. Applying a gender lens, we use qualitative methods to analyze women’s and men’s motivations to engage in seed businesses, the challenges they confront to start and succeed, and prospects for sustainability and continued success. We also use quantitative data to characterize the levels of empowerment of the entrepreneurs sampled. Results show that time flexibility and profitability of the business can be important considerations for women’s engagement in seed entrepreneurship, and the social normative context of the sector is also critical. Furthermore, outside support can be a key factor influencing women’s seed entrepreneurship, per the Kenya case. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1174692025-11-06T05:25:50Z Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania Gumucio, Tatiana Kramer, Berber Ragasa, Catherine Pyburn, Rhiannon Galie, Alessandra Aredo, Samson Dejene Jumba, Humphrey Nimorme, Eva Omondi, Immaculate A. Sufian, Farha Deba value chains gender women's empowerment seeds entrepreneurship agriculture food security climate change Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying seed-related value chains and country contexts in Africa south of the Sahara. The cases include chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania, tilapia seed production in Ghana, and marketing and trading of improved maize and sorghum seeds in Kenya. Applying a gender lens, we use qualitative methods to analyze women’s and men’s motivations to engage in seed businesses, the challenges they confront to start and succeed, and prospects for sustainability and continued success. We also use quantitative data to characterize the levels of empowerment of the entrepreneurs sampled. Results show that time flexibility and profitability of the business can be important considerations for women’s engagement in seed entrepreneurship, and the social normative context of the sector is also critical. Furthermore, outside support can be a key factor influencing women’s seed entrepreneurship, per the Kenya case. 2021-12-22 2022-01-12T13:41:23Z 2022-01-12T13:41:23Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117469 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134938 Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Gumucio T, Kramer B, Ragasa C, Pyburn R, Galie A, Dejene Aredo S, Jumba H, Nimorme E, Omondi I, Sufian FD. 2021. Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. CCAFS Working Paper no. 412. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). |
| spellingShingle | value chains gender women's empowerment seeds entrepreneurship agriculture food security climate change Gumucio, Tatiana Kramer, Berber Ragasa, Catherine Pyburn, Rhiannon Galie, Alessandra Aredo, Samson Dejene Jumba, Humphrey Nimorme, Eva Omondi, Immaculate A. Sufian, Farha Deba Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
| title | Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_full | Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_short | Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
| title_sort | gender and seed entrepreneurism case studies in ethiopia ghana kenya and tanzania |
| topic | value chains gender women's empowerment seeds entrepreneurship agriculture food security climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117469 |
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