What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania

This paper complements the gender and technology adoption literature by shifting attention to what happens after adoption of a technology. Understanding the expected benefits and costs of adoption from the perspective of women users can help explain the technology adoption rates that are observed an...

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Main Authors: Theis, Sophie, Lefore, Nicole, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Bryan, Elizabeth
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95866
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Bryan, Elizabeth
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description This paper complements the gender and technology adoption literature by shifting attention to what happens after adoption of a technology. Understanding the expected benefits and costs of adoption from the perspective of women users can help explain the technology adoption rates that are observed and why technology adoption is often not sustained in the longer term. Drawing on qualitative data from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper develops a framework for examining the intrahousehold distribution of benefits from technology adoption, focusing on small-scale irrigation technologies. The framework contributes to the conceptual and empirical exploration of jointness in control over technology by men and women. It does this by identifying a series of decisions following technology adoption, and how these decisions affect how the technology is used, by whom, to whose benefit, and with what costs.
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spelling CGSpace958662025-11-06T06:29:41Z What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania Theis, Sophie Lefore, Nicole Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Bryan, Elizabeth modernization gender technology adoption irrigation This paper complements the gender and technology adoption literature by shifting attention to what happens after adoption of a technology. Understanding the expected benefits and costs of adoption from the perspective of women users can help explain the technology adoption rates that are observed and why technology adoption is often not sustained in the longer term. Drawing on qualitative data from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper develops a framework for examining the intrahousehold distribution of benefits from technology adoption, focusing on small-scale irrigation technologies. The framework contributes to the conceptual and empirical exploration of jointness in control over technology by men and women. It does this by identifying a series of decisions following technology adoption, and how these decisions affect how the technology is used, by whom, to whose benefit, and with what costs. 2017 2018-07-04T08:32:21Z 2018-07-04T08:32:21Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95866 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67768 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148647 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152638 https://www.ifpri.org/blog/how-can-reliable-water-access-contribute-nutrition-security-africa-south-sahara/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9862-8 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Theis, Sophie; Lefore, Nicole; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; and Bryan, Elizabeth. 2017. What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1672. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95866
spellingShingle modernization
gender
technology adoption
irrigation
Theis, Sophie
Lefore, Nicole
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Bryan, Elizabeth
What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
title What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
title_full What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
title_fullStr What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
title_short What happens after technology adoption? Gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania
title_sort what happens after technology adoption gendered aspects of small scale irrigation technologies in ethiopia ghana and tanzania
topic modernization
gender
technology adoption
irrigation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95866
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