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Gender analysis of climate stressed rice-based systems in Mali
(Presentation, 2023-10-12) Diabate, Fatoumata; Mujawamariya, Gaudiose
Agriculture and livestock represent the main incomegenerating activity for women and youth in the rural areas of Mali. It is expected that climate change will lead to a reduction in food production due to changes in rainfall patterns and temperature in Africa (Awojobi and Tetteh, 2017), and Mali is facing the same challenges. To cope with such climateinduced stress, women and youth need information and access to climate-smart technologies. This study analyzes the role of women in rice-based systems heavily affected by climate stress, and their access to resources on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and Climate Information Services (CIS) in Mali. Mixed methods were applied: a quantitative study covered 766 male and female respondents in 383 households and a qualitative investigation engaged 134 women and 155 men in 34 focus group, plus 29 key informants in the major rice-growing regions in Mali. The study showed large gaps between female and male farmers’ access to resources: specific gender constraints in the rice-based activity include access to land, improved seeds, rice farming, machinery, formal credit facilities, extension services, labor force, fertilizers and climate information. Particularly, the willingness to maintain women in the conditions of dependency was observed, hence, they were likely to abandon rice production or remain in labor-wage activities due to multiple climaterelated challenges they were facing
Empowering women and youth in rice value chains by implementing innovation platforms: A case study in Senegal
(Poster, 2023-10-10) Ndour, Maimouna; Diagne, Mandiaye; Akpa, Aristide; Sarr, Georgette M.
The attempt to boost Senegal’s local agricultural production has led to increased rice production that is more attractive to the private sector, which is competing with the vulnerable actors who are young people and women. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accentuated these groups’ vulnerabilities, who, more than ever, need to be supported in reviving their economic activities. The observed tendencies of feminization of poverty, youth unemployment and high emigration rates reflect numerous economic and social obstacles, including exclusion from some financing programs. To preserve the profitability and the sustainability of small actors’ activities, innovation platforms were created to strengthen and encourage innovation through a synergy of actions, collective and social learning and interactions among actors. Two youth-inclusive innovation platforms for rice value chains were established within this rationale in the Senegal River Valley. A focus was put on training the vulnerable actors in ICT to facilitate operations and linkages within the platform. Two activities was conducted: a mixed group of 100 young people was trained on the IP and a group of 25 women was trained on the use of ICT for marketing. Additionally, they were accompanied to better make their entrepreneurial activities profitable, building on the resources of their platforms. The impact of the IP engagement on the profitability and the sustainability of their activities was assessed by a quantitative survey that shows a positive impact on their economics activities throughout contractualization between them and the use of ICT for visibility.
Participation in downstream nodes of the rice value chain in Uganda: Where are the women?
(Presentation, 2023-10-10) Akongo, Thelma; Mujawamariya, Gaudiose; Twine, Edgar
Evidence of women’s participation in value chains is greater on the production side, but scanty in downstream nodes, pointing to women being relegated to unprofitable activities. The consequence is suboptimal value chain performance with wide gender gaps in productivity, income, household food security, and poverty. This study sought to inform the development of gender-inclusive value chains. A qualitative investigation of the downstream nodes of the rice value chain (DS-RVC) was conducted in six districts of Eastern Uganda with 21 key informants and 93 women and 19 men in 14 focus group discussions (five mixed, nine women-only FGDs). Results confirm the limited participation of women in DS-RVC while men comprised up to 70% in all the nodes. Most women participated in wholesale and retail marketing and in lighter and unskilled activities including sweeping, cleaning, sorting, and pouring paddy into milling machines. Women’s engagement is constrained by additional reproductive and productive workloads, limited income and access to credit, and their risk-averseness toward engaging in bulk purchases. Norms are also restrictive, such as on their mobility and telephone usage and being physically unfit to operate heavy equipment. The factors favoring engagement in the DS-RVC are participation in networks, information access and skills-building, trust, respect, and cooperation— especially in joint marketing. Availability, access to and control and ownership of resources and assets are also important. Tailor-made training, subsidized processing machinery, soft loans, and improving working conditions and environment would increase women’s participation. Continuous gender sensitization for men and women would advance equitably working together.
Is personalized better: Digital advisory and productivity differentials in rice farming in Nigeria
(Conference Paper, 2023-07-25) Owusu, S.E.; Arouna, Aminou; Narrod, Clare
Personalized extension advisory deliver information that are more compatible with farmer production conditions and has a better chance of adoption and impacts. We exploit a rich four-round experimental panel data on RiceAdvice, a decision support app that provides personalized information on soil fertility management and other agricultural practices to rice farmers. We evaluate the impact of the app on technological, managerial, frontier yield, and fertilizer productivity differentials, while accounting for differences in production technologies possessed by the different treatment groups. Re sults based on the true random effects estimator suggest that exposure to RiceAdvice significantly increases the production possibilities and managerial performance of rice smallholders exposed to it (treated farmers), leading to an upward shift in the production frontier for those same farmers. Exposed farmers also have higher mean fertilizer productivity compared to the unexposed, especially when bundled with fertilizer in puts. The impacts are stronger in the early years but wanes over time. Ensuring consistent access to the app as well as fertilizer input could help sustain the gains.
Farmer uncertainty and demand for rice varietal identity information: DNA fingerprinting of smallholder rice varieties in Côte d’Ivoire
(Conference Paper, 2023-07-25) Tyack, N.; Arouna, Aminou; Amoah, N.; Aboudou, R.
Information asymmetry is a key challenge facing farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly regarding the identity and quality of crop varieties and other agricultural inputs. In this research, we contribute to a recent economics literature that uses advances in DNA fingerprinting technology and affordability to directly measure the identity of crop varieties, allowing this variable to be compared with farmers’ beliefs about the varieties that they cultivate. In our study, we additionally utilize a novel approach in which we elicit the demand of rice farmers in central Côte d’Ivoire for information about the variety they cultivate as well as their own beliefs about how sure they are of the variety’s identity. We connect our DNA fingerprinting analysis of producer seed samples to survey questions related to producer beliefs and demand, and find that the majority of the farmers in our dataset are not certain about the identity of the variety they cultivate. We further find that around 98 percent of producers in our dataset are willing to pay to obtain the results of DNA fingerprinting analysis of the variety they currently cultivate, from a minimum of around $0.20 to a maximum of ~$36 USD.
Ex-post impact of the digital and personalized recommendations in rice production: a case study of RiceAdvice application in the Senegal river valley
(Poster, 2022-09-16) Arouna, A.; Yergo, Wilfried; Aboudou, R.; Akpa, A.; Saito, K.
Assessing the impact of farm diversification on household nutrition: evidence of four sub-Saharan African countries
(Poster, 2022-09-16) Arouna, A.; Yergo, Wilfried; Saito, K.; Mujawamariya, Gaudiose; Diagne, M.; Twine, Edgar E.
Drivers of adoption and impacts of the improved GEM parboiling system for rice value chain upgrading on livelihood of women rice parboilers in Benin
(Conference Paper, 2022-09-16) Arouna, A.; Aboudou, R.; Ndindeng, S.A.
Food insecurity and child malnutrition remain persistent problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population. However, white rice is poor in micronutrients and records higher glycemic values compared to parboiled rice. An improved parboiling system called “Grain quality enhancer, Energy-efficient and durable Material” (GEM in short) allows the processing of quality rice with better physical and nutritional properties compared to traditional systems. This paper assessed the drivers and impact of the adoption of the GEM system on women’s livelihoods. A total of 822 rice women parboilers were randomly sampled and interviewed in Benin, in regions where the GEM system was introduced. We employed the endogenous switching regression model (ESR) to assess the impact of the GEM system. We found evidence that adoption of the GEM system increased women parboilers’ rice output rate (milling return), income and food security and reduced poverty. The impact of the GEM system is estimated at 14.4 kg of milled rice per 100 kg of paddy (21%), equivalent to US$ 7.3 of additional income (18%). A significantly lower poverty rate of 26% was found among households due to the adoption of the GEM system. These results are supported by women’s perceptions that the output rate, better nutritional value and reduction of broken rice during milling are major advantages of the improved parboiling system. Policy actions such as training of local fabricators and credit options are required for out-scaling and sustainability of the improved parboiling system.
Analysis of determinants of adoption of service-based business of digital agricultural extension technologies: An ex-ante evidence
(Poster, 2022-09-16) Amoussouhoui, R.; Arouna, A.; Bavorova, M.; Vladimir, V.; Yergo, Wilfried; Banout, J.
50 years of rice research for development
(Brochure, 2022) Africa Rice Center
FR2.2: Gender-based assessment of rice and rice seed production in Nioro hub, Senegal
(Presentation, 2022-10) Ndour, Maimouna
In the central part of Senegal, farmers are threatened by some abiotic stress including salinity and toxicity such that farmers abandoned rice farming in some areas. The pressures to sustain the farmers' livelihood sources are intense, involving land hire in the less-affected areas. From a gender perspective, these conditions are particulary worrying because they are compromising the essence of the role of the woman in the household: rice growing for food in the lowland fields is a traditional activity of the woman, the man is involved in cash crop production in upland ecology (groundnut and millet). Hence producing rice is essentially the woman's contribution to the household's food consumption, noting that men are becoming involved in growing upland rice, with the introduction of suitable varieties. This study targeted to investigate the women and men specific seed needs, challenges, and opportunities to make rice and rice seed production more beneficial to women, by providing them stress tolerant verities for lowlands and identifying sustainable business models adoption and dissemination. We conducted focus group in three villages with separate groups of men; women and young people and quantitative data collection with a sample of 60 farmers in each village, to identify the constraints to rice farming and to assess the producer's awareness of this improved varieties. The abiotic stressors decimate the crops and then the stress tolerant varieties and production of seeds sparked a new interest in rice cultivation in this region. Additional efforts are required to implement sustainable business models for seed production.
Africa RISING West Africa: Status of activities in the rice-based systems, January-September 2012
(Presentation, 2012-10-23) Ajayi, Oluyede C.
Building local capacities in weed management for rice-based systems
(Presentation, 2012-10-01) Rodenburg, J.

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