ICT-based agricultural extension services and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeExcellence in Agronomyen_US
cg.coverage.countryNigeriaen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NGen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformGenderen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
dc.contributor.authorLambrecht, Isabel B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-04T12:46:30Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-01-04T12:46:30Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/136952en_US
dc.titleICT-based agricultural extension services and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopiaen_US
dcterms.abstractDigital tools and extension services are promising options to deliver optimized agronomics at scale. Yet, technical solutions and advisory systems will fail to produce the intended outcomes if they do not manage to deliver their messages to farmers, or if farmers are unable to benefit from this advice. Women, in particular, often have less access to digital tools and also have less decision-making power in agriculture. Therefore, they may find it more difficult to benefit from these tools, to leverage them for more empowerment and for a more gender-equitable society. Our study provides a comprehensive analysis of the issues through the lens of the Reach-Benefit-Empowerment and Transform (RBET) framework through a combination of a strategic literature review related to gender in the rapidly developing field of ICT-based agricultural extension services on the one hand, and quantitative data analysis from two different settings—Ethiopia and Nigeria—on the other hand. We used original survey data collected in 2023 with one male and one female respondent (if available) from 900 households in Northern and Southwestern Ethiopia and 1,080 households in northern Nigeria, respectively. We analyzed which aspects or dimensions of empowerment are associated with ICT access, how this is influenced by other social markers such as economic status and age, and which gendered constraints are there for women to be reached, benefited and empowered through agricultural support tools. We reflected on the actions that might leverage digital tools toward a transformation for more gender-equitable relations within their households and communities.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLambrecht, Isabel. 2023. ICT-based agricultural extension services and women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia. Presentation. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136952en_US
dcterms.issued2023-10-11en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectresearchen_US
dcterms.subjectadvisory servicesen_US
dcterms.subjectdigital technologyen_US
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten_US
dcterms.typePresentationen_US

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