Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana
Land provides the basis for food production and is an indispensable input for economic livelihoods in rural areas. Landownership is strongly associated with social and economic power, not only across communities and households, but also within households. The link between landownership and women’s e...
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| author | Yokying, Phanwin Lambrecht, Isabel B. |
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| description | Land provides the basis for food production and is an indispensable input for economic livelihoods in rural areas. Landownership is strongly associated with social and economic power, not only across communities and households, but also within households. The link between landownership and women’s empowerment has been relatively well documented in general, but not specifically in relation to agriculture. This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing how ownership of land is associated with agency and achievements in agriculture among female and male farmers in northern Ghana, a region transitioning from customary land tenure without individual ownership rights towards a more individualized and market-based tenure system. We use a recursive bivariate probit model and focus on eight different indicators in four distinct domains: decisions on agricultural cultivation, decisions on farm income, agricultural association membership, and time allocation. Our empirical estimates indicate that landownership is positively correlated with men’s and women’s agency in agriculture, namely in decisions on agricultural cultivation and membership in agricultural association. Yet, we also find that the gender gaps in participation in cultivation decisions, the use of agricultural earnings, and in agricultural workload continue to persist among those who own land. While the results underscore the importance of land as a resource that can enhance women’s agency, they also point out that policies aiming to solely advance land rights may not be sufficient to eradicate or even reduce gender inequality in agriculture. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1473442025-11-06T05:58:39Z Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana Yokying, Phanwin Lambrecht, Isabel B. gender land tenure empowerment agriculture land ownership decision making women Land provides the basis for food production and is an indispensable input for economic livelihoods in rural areas. Landownership is strongly associated with social and economic power, not only across communities and households, but also within households. The link between landownership and women’s empowerment has been relatively well documented in general, but not specifically in relation to agriculture. This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing how ownership of land is associated with agency and achievements in agriculture among female and male farmers in northern Ghana, a region transitioning from customary land tenure without individual ownership rights towards a more individualized and market-based tenure system. We use a recursive bivariate probit model and focus on eight different indicators in four distinct domains: decisions on agricultural cultivation, decisions on farm income, agricultural association membership, and time allocation. Our empirical estimates indicate that landownership is positively correlated with men’s and women’s agency in agriculture, namely in decisions on agricultural cultivation and membership in agricultural association. Yet, we also find that the gender gaps in participation in cultivation decisions, the use of agricultural earnings, and in agricultural workload continue to persist among those who own land. While the results underscore the importance of land as a resource that can enhance women’s agency, they also point out that policies aiming to solely advance land rights may not be sufficient to eradicate or even reduce gender inequality in agriculture. 2019-06-13 2024-06-21T09:13:28Z 2024-06-21T09:13:28Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147344 en https://doi.org/10.1086/703082 https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12374 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105012 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133060 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133077 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Yokying, Phanwin; and Lambrecht, Isabel. 2019. Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1847. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147344 |
| spellingShingle | gender land tenure empowerment agriculture land ownership decision making women Yokying, Phanwin Lambrecht, Isabel B. Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana |
| title | Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana |
| title_full | Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana |
| title_short | Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana |
| title_sort | landownership and the gender gap in agriculture disappointing insights from northern ghana |
| topic | gender land tenure empowerment agriculture land ownership decision making women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147344 |
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