Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture
Despite women's large contributions to agricultural production in developing countries, they are often excluded from market-facing activities. There is little evidence on how to increase their participation in commercial agriculture. We designed a private sector intervention to encourage male outgro...
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American Economic Association
2022
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| author | Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael |
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| description | Despite women's large contributions to agricultural production in developing countries, they are often excluded from market-facing activities. There is little evidence on how to increase their participation in commercial agriculture. We designed a private sector intervention to encourage male outgrowers in Uganda to transfer a sugarcane contract to their wife or to register a previously uncontracted block in her name. A randomized controlled trial indicates that given some encouragement, men are willing to transfer rights to their wives for cane blocks of significant quality and value. Increased cane ownership by women increased women's participation in cane management and marketing activities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1412892024-10-25T08:00:19Z Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael participation gender agricultural products farmers sugarcane markets market access private sector developing countries men women Despite women's large contributions to agricultural production in developing countries, they are often excluded from market-facing activities. There is little evidence on how to increase their participation in commercial agriculture. We designed a private sector intervention to encourage male outgrowers in Uganda to transfer a sugarcane contract to their wife or to register a previously uncontracted block in her name. A randomized controlled trial indicates that given some encouragement, men are willing to transfer rights to their wives for cane blocks of significant quality and value. Increased cane ownership by women increased women's participation in cane management and marketing activities. 2022-05-01 2024-04-12T13:37:37Z 2024-04-12T13:37:37Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141289 en Limited Access American Economic Association Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly M.; and O'Sullivan, Michael. 2022. Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture. AEA Papers and Proceedings 112: 546-550. https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20221052 |
| spellingShingle | participation gender agricultural products farmers sugarcane markets market access private sector developing countries men women Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| title | Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| title_full | Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| title_short | Empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| title_sort | empowering women to engage in commercial agriculture |
| topic | participation gender agricultural products farmers sugarcane markets market access private sector developing countries men women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141289 |
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