Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh
Custom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia. We studied the gendered differences in women’s and men’s involvement in emerging markets for reaper-harvester machinery services in the Feed the Future Zone in Bangladesh. We find that women...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Theis, Sophie Sultana, Nasrin Krupnik, Timothy J. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center International Rice Research Institute |
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| description | Custom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia. We studied the gendered differences in women’s and men’s involvement in emerging markets for reaper-harvester machinery services in the Feed the Future Zone in Bangladesh. We find that women benefit from managing and sometimes owning machinery services, as well as from the direct and indirect consequences of hiring such services to harvest their crops. However, a number of technical, economic, and cultural barriers constrain women’s full participation in these benefits. The brief provides suggestions for initiatives promoting rural machinery services to more fully engage women, as business owners and users of machinery, to expand the benefits of these markets, with relevance for South Asia and other farming geographies dominated by smallholders. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1455172025-11-06T07:37:55Z Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh Theis, Sophie Sultana, Nasrin Krupnik, Timothy J. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center International Rice Research Institute participation small enterprises social structure role of women machinery cooperatives mobile phones cultural factors training constraints harvesters farm equipment smallholders ownership agricultural mechanization agricultural cooperatives discrimination gender relations gender equity credit equality women farmers women Custom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia. We studied the gendered differences in women’s and men’s involvement in emerging markets for reaper-harvester machinery services in the Feed the Future Zone in Bangladesh. We find that women benefit from managing and sometimes owning machinery services, as well as from the direct and indirect consequences of hiring such services to harvest their crops. However, a number of technical, economic, and cultural barriers constrain women’s full participation in these benefits. The brief provides suggestions for initiatives promoting rural machinery services to more fully engage women, as business owners and users of machinery, to expand the benefits of these markets, with relevance for South Asia and other farming geographies dominated by smallholders. 2018-03-28 2024-06-21T09:04:36Z 2024-06-21T09:04:36Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Theis, Sophie; Sultana, Nasrin; and Krupnik, Timothy J. 2018. Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh. GCAN Project Note 8. CSISA Research Note 9. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517 |
| spellingShingle | participation small enterprises social structure role of women machinery cooperatives mobile phones cultural factors training constraints harvesters farm equipment smallholders ownership agricultural mechanization agricultural cooperatives discrimination gender relations gender equity credit equality women farmers women Theis, Sophie Sultana, Nasrin Krupnik, Timothy J. International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center International Rice Research Institute Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh |
| title | Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization lessons from reaper harvester service provision in bangladesh |
| topic | participation small enterprises social structure role of women machinery cooperatives mobile phones cultural factors training constraints harvesters farm equipment smallholders ownership agricultural mechanization agricultural cooperatives discrimination gender relations gender equity credit equality women farmers women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517 |
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