Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda
Women often have less access to agricultural information than men, constraining their participation in decision-making on crops, technologies, and practices. In the design of agricultural extension programs, women may be viewed as insignificant actors in agricultural production. Moreover, even if th...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2020
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| author | Lecoutere, Els Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn |
| author_browse | Lecoutere, Els Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn |
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| description | Women often have less access to agricultural information than men, constraining their participation in decision-making on crops, technologies, and practices. In the design of agricultural extension programs, women may be viewed as insignificant actors in agricultural production. Moreover, even if their role is recognized, valuable information on production does not flow freely within the household from men to women. Among groups of maize-farming households in eastern Uganda, we explore the impacts on women’s empowerment from the use of gender-responsive information and communication technologies to provide extension services, specifically videos that feature women as information providers. The research tests the relative impact of the videos, contrasting their informational effects versus their role model effects, on women’s knowledge, their agency, and their achievements in farming. The results show that targeting women with information increases their achievements in farming. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1439912025-12-08T10:06:44Z Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda Lecoutere, Els Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn agricultural extension systems gender agricultural extension digital extension tools maize capacity development empowerment decision making information rural areas women Women often have less access to agricultural information than men, constraining their participation in decision-making on crops, technologies, and practices. In the design of agricultural extension programs, women may be viewed as insignificant actors in agricultural production. Moreover, even if their role is recognized, valuable information on production does not flow freely within the household from men to women. Among groups of maize-farming households in eastern Uganda, we explore the impacts on women’s empowerment from the use of gender-responsive information and communication technologies to provide extension services, specifically videos that feature women as information providers. The research tests the relative impact of the videos, contrasting their informational effects versus their role model effects, on women’s knowledge, their agency, and their achievements in farming. The results show that targeting women with information increases their achievements in farming. 2020-03-01 2024-05-22T12:18:44Z 2024-05-22T12:18:44Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143991 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133523 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147262 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133780 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133811 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134389 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134907 https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.313801 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Lecoutere, Els; Spielman, David J.; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2020. Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133615. |
| spellingShingle | agricultural extension systems gender agricultural extension digital extension tools maize capacity development empowerment decision making information rural areas women Lecoutere, Els Spielman, David J. Van Campenhout, Bjorn Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda |
| title | Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda |
| title_full | Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda |
| title_short | Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda |
| title_sort | women s empowerment agricultural extension and digitalization disentangling information and role model effects in rural uganda |
| topic | agricultural extension systems gender agricultural extension digital extension tools maize capacity development empowerment decision making information rural areas women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143991 |
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