Demand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key crops

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen_US
cg.coverage.countryBangladeshen_US
cg.coverage.countryCambodiaen_US
cg.coverage.countryGhanaen_US
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
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cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierAvinandan Taron: 0000-0001-6512-482Xen_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1389224x.2020.1726778en_US
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH049538en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1389-224Xen_US
cg.issue4en_US
cg.journalJournal of Agricultural Education and Extensionen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.volume26en_US
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Frances E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTaron, Avinandanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T06:29:51Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-03-10T06:29:51Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/107438en_US
dc.titleDemand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key cropsen_US
dcterms.abstractPurpose: The need to increase women’s access to extension has been extensively discussed. This paper assesses women’s access to extension services through the Plantwise extension approach as a baseline for future comparison of women’s access through other extension approaches. It also assesses whether crops that men and women farmers seek plant health advice on are similar or not, and attempts to disperse assumptions that continue to be made about what crops women and men grow. Approach: We analysed data from the Plantwise Online Management System for 13 countries using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings: We show that the Plantwise extension approach enables higher levels of women’s access than generally reported for agricultural extension, that the crops that women and men seek extension advice on is not gender dependent, and there are few clear distinctions between their crops of interest. Practical implications: There is limited literature studying gender inclusiveness in different extension approaches. The findings add to the documentation of assessing women’s access to demand-driven extension. Theoretical implications: Plantwise is a new extension approach which needs to be assessed from spatial and temporal perspectives to understand whether demand-driven extension enables increased women’s access over time. Originality/value: Extension service provision is often based on assumptions about what crops are being grown. Small studies have challenged these assumptions, but this large dataset enables us to test these assumptions more thoroughly across 13 countries adding to the weight of evidence against the existence of women’s and men’s crops.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.available2020-02-13en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWilliams, F. E.; Taron, Avinandan. 2020. Demand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key crops. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 26(4):383-400. [doi: 10.1080/1389224X.2020.1726778]en_US
dcterms.extent383-400en_US
dcterms.issued2020-08-07en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInforma UK Limiteden_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural extension systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectgender analysisen_US
dcterms.subjectextension approachesen_US
dcterms.subjectwomen's participationen_US
dcterms.subjectfarmer participationen_US
dcterms.subjectwomen farmersen_US
dcterms.subjectmale involvementen_US
dcterms.subjectcropping patternsen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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