The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda
In smallholder households that engage in commercial agriculture, women are often involved in the phys-ical labor related to the cash crop, but do not engage in the market-facing activities. As a result, men tend to control the profits from these crops, which are increasingly important to household l...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael |
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| description | In smallholder households that engage in commercial agriculture, women are often involved in the phys-ical labor related to the cash crop, but do not engage in the market-facing activities. As a result, men tend to control the profits from these crops, which are increasingly important to household livelihoods. The Farm and Family Balance project implemented an intervention that sought to mitigate this issue. The project encouraged households associated with a large sugar company near Jinja, Uganda to regis-ter at least one of their sugarcane blocks with the wife instead of the husband, thereby including her in the market activities associated with that block and giving her access to the block profits. Take-up of the intervention was high; 72% of households that were offered the opportunity chose to participate. The project was implemented as a randomized control trial to allow for the study of the impacts on house-holds. In this note, we provide information regarding the quality of the blocks transferred to women and the resulting changes to the company’s portfolio. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1459462025-11-06T06:56:29Z The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael gender women's participation sugar cane agriculture crop production smallholders cash crops women In smallholder households that engage in commercial agriculture, women are often involved in the phys-ical labor related to the cash crop, but do not engage in the market-facing activities. As a result, men tend to control the profits from these crops, which are increasingly important to household livelihoods. The Farm and Family Balance project implemented an intervention that sought to mitigate this issue. The project encouraged households associated with a large sugar company near Jinja, Uganda to regis-ter at least one of their sugarcane blocks with the wife instead of the husband, thereby including her in the market activities associated with that block and giving her access to the block profits. Take-up of the intervention was high; 72% of households that were offered the opportunity chose to participate. The project was implemented as a randomized control trial to allow for the study of the impacts on house-holds. In this note, we provide information regarding the quality of the blocks transferred to women and the resulting changes to the company’s portfolio. 2019-12-10 2024-06-21T09:05:24Z 2024-06-21T09:05:24Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145946 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146092 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134200 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146963 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105224 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly M.; O'Sullivan, Michael. 2019. The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145946 |
| spellingShingle | gender women's participation sugar cane agriculture crop production smallholders cash crops women Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda |
| title | The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda |
| title_full | The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda |
| title_fullStr | The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda |
| title_short | The quality of sugarcane registered to women: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda |
| title_sort | quality of sugarcane registered to women evidence from an intervention in uganda |
| topic | gender women's participation sugar cane agriculture crop production smallholders cash crops women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145946 |
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