What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda
Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the principal household economic activity must involve men if they are to be successful. In this paper we analyze take-up of a project that sought to increase women’s involvement in sugarcane marketing and sales...
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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 | Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the principal household economic activity must involve men if they are to be successful. In this paper we analyze take-up of a project that sought to increase women’s involvement in sugarcane marketing and sales by encouraging the registration of a sugarcane block contract in the wife’s name. We find that men who are more educated and live in households with higher wealth and expenditures are more likely to agree to the registration. Households with more cane blocks and in which the wife is already more involved in cane activities are also more likely to participate. Overall, take-up is high at 70%, and remains high even in those groups that are less likely to take-up. Additionally, we find that blocks transferred to women are not of lower quality or value than those kept by men, though they are smaller and closer to the home. These results suggest that simple encouragement can be an effective tool to nudge men to include their wives in household commercial activities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1460922025-11-06T05:06:59Z What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael participation gender sugar cane cash crops contract farming women Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the principal household economic activity must involve men if they are to be successful. In this paper we analyze take-up of a project that sought to increase women’s involvement in sugarcane marketing and sales by encouraging the registration of a sugarcane block contract in the wife’s name. We find that men who are more educated and live in households with higher wealth and expenditures are more likely to agree to the registration. Households with more cane blocks and in which the wife is already more involved in cane activities are also more likely to participate. Overall, take-up is high at 70%, and remains high even in those groups that are less likely to take-up. Additionally, we find that blocks transferred to women are not of lower quality or value than those kept by men, though they are smaller and closer to the home. These results suggest that simple encouragement can be an effective tool to nudge men to include their wives in household commercial activities. 2018-10-08 2024-06-21T09:05:48Z 2024-06-21T09:05:48Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146092 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146963 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly M.; and O'Sullivan, Michael. 2018. What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1762. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146092 |
| spellingShingle | participation gender sugar cane cash crops contract farming women Ambler, Kate Jones, Kelly M. O'Sullivan, Michael What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda |
| title | What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda |
| title_full | What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda |
| title_fullStr | What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda |
| title_short | What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda |
| title_sort | what is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets evidence from uganda |
| topic | participation gender sugar cane cash crops contract farming women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146092 |
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