Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.coverage.countryGhanaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GHen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierIsabel Lambrecht: 0000-0003-1709-6611en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133281en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.number1847en_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorYokying, Phanwinen_US
dc.contributor.authorLambrecht, Isabel B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:13:28Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:13:28Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147344en_US
dc.titleLandownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghanaen_US
dcterms.abstractLand 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.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationYokying, 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/10568/147344en_US
dcterms.extent51 pagesen_US
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2019-06-13en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1086/703082en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12374en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105012en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133060en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133077en_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/133281en_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectland tenureen_US
dcterms.subjectempowermenten_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectland ownershipen_US
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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