Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCultural Practiceen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Healthen_US
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierAgnes Quisumbing: 0000-0002-5429-1857en_US
cg.creator.identifierRuth Meinzen-Dick: 0000-0003-4782-3074en_US
cg.creator.identifierDeanna Olney: 0000-0002-2420-8565en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9587-xen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP)en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankBen_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1572-8366en_US
cg.issue1en_US
cg.journalAgriculture and Human Valuesen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriMARKETSen_US
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen_US
cg.volume32en_US
dc.contributor.authorQuisumbing, Agnes R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRubin, Deborahen_US
dc.contributor.authorManfre, C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWaithanji, Elizabeth M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBold, M. van denen_US
dc.contributor.authorOlney, Deanna K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Nancy L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMeinzen-Dick, Ruth S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-17T11:54:01Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-02-17T11:54:01Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/56776en_US
dc.titleGender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asiaen_US
dcterms.abstractStrengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly women farmers, to produce for both home and the market is currently a development priority. In many contexts, ownership of assets is strongly gendered, reflecting existing gender norms and limiting women’s ability to invest in more profitable livelihood strategies such as market-oriented agriculture. Yet the intersection between women’s asset endowments and their ability to participate in and benefit from agricultural interventions receives minimal attention. This paper explores changes in gender relations and women’s assets in four agricultural interventions that promoted high value agriculture with different degrees of market-orientation. Findings suggest that these dairy and horticulture projects can successfully involve women and increase production, income and the stock of household assets. In some cases, women were able to increase their control over production, income and assets; however in most cases men’s incomes increased more than women’s and the gender-asset gap did not decrease. Gender- and asset-based barriers to participation in projects as well as gender norms that limit women’s ability to accumulate and retain control over assets both contributed to the results. Comparing experiences across the four projects, especially where projects implemented adaptive measures to encourage gender-equitable outcomes, provides lessons for gender-responsive projects targeting existing and emerging value chains for high value products. Other targeted support to women farmers may also be needed to promote their acquisition of the physical assets required to expand production or enter other nodes of the value chain.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2015-02-01en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationQuisumbing, Agnes R.; Rubin, Deborah; Manfre, Cristina; Waithanji, Elizabeth; van den Bold, Mara; Olney, Deanna K.; Johnson, Nancy L.; and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2015. Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: Learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia. Agriculture and Human Values. 32(4): 705-725. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9587-xen_US
dcterms.extentpp. 705-725en_US
dcterms.issued2015-12en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherSpringeren_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/4793en_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149442en_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectresearchen_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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