FR2.2: Gender-based assessment of rice and rice seed production in Nioro hub, Senegal

cg.contributor.affiliationAfrica Rice Centeren_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.coverage.countrySenegalen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2SNen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.placeAbidjan, Côte d'Ivoireen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformGenderen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
dc.contributor.authorNdour, Maimounaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-23T06:52:10Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-11-23T06:52:10Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/125627en_US
dc.titleFR2.2: Gender-based assessment of rice and rice seed production in Nioro hub, Senegalen_US
dcterms.abstractIn 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.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationNdour, Maimouna. 2022. Gender-based assessment of rice and rice seed production in Nioro hub, Senegal. Presented a the CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange, Nairobi, 12-14 October 2022. Abidjan: AfricaRiceen_US
dcterms.issued2022-10en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.publisherAfrica Rice Centeren_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.typePresentationen_US

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