Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings
Agricultural value chain interventions, such as market integration strategies, negotiating better prices and developing new and more pro table products are important mechanisms to increase farm incomes. While women play a critical role in agriculture, power dynamics and sociocultural norms often res...
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2024
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| author | Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor Masset, Edoardo |
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| description | Agricultural value chain interventions, such as market integration strategies, negotiating better prices and developing new and more pro table products are important mechanisms to increase farm incomes. While women play a critical role in agriculture, power dynamics and sociocultural norms often restrict their participation to parts of the agricultural value chain that have the least economic returns, such as agricultural labor, petty trading and subsistence farming. Evidence indicates value chain interventions are successful at improving women’s incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings. However, this economic advancement is not enough to translate into noneconomic empowerment, such as altering gender roles and removing cultural barriers within families and communities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1415772025-08-15T09:36:36Z Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor Masset, Edoardo value chains women's empowerment productivity assets gender Agricultural value chain interventions, such as market integration strategies, negotiating better prices and developing new and more pro table products are important mechanisms to increase farm incomes. While women play a critical role in agriculture, power dynamics and sociocultural norms often restrict their participation to parts of the agricultural value chain that have the least economic returns, such as agricultural labor, petty trading and subsistence farming. Evidence indicates value chain interventions are successful at improving women’s incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings. However, this economic advancement is not enough to translate into noneconomic empowerment, such as altering gender roles and removing cultural barriers within families and communities. 2024-04-17 2024-04-23T14:52:54Z 2024-04-23T14:52:54Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141577 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR System Organization Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor, and Edoardo Masset. 2024. Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women’s incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform. Evidence Explainer. 7 p. |
| spellingShingle | value chains women's empowerment productivity assets gender Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor Masset, Edoardo Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings |
| title | Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings |
| title_full | Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings |
| title_short | Agricultural value chain interventions can improve women's incomes, assets holdings, productivity and savings |
| title_sort | agricultural value chain interventions can improve women s incomes assets holdings productivity and savings |
| topic | value chains women's empowerment productivity assets gender |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141577 |
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