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

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.countryCambodia
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.countryMyanmar
cg.coverage.countryNepal
cg.coverage.countryRwanda
cg.coverage.countrySri Lanka
cg.coverage.countryThailand
cg.coverage.countryVietnam
cg.coverage.countryZambia
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cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAvinandan Taron: 0000-0001-6512-482X
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1389224x.2020.1726778en
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH049538
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1389-224Xen
cg.issue4en
cg.journalJournal of Agricultural Education and Extensionen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume26en
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Frances E.en
dc.contributor.authorTaron, Avinandanen
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T06:29:51Zen
dc.date.available2020-03-10T06:29:51Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/107438
dc.titleDemand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key cropsen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2020-02-13
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
dcterms.extent383-400en
dcterms.issued2020-08-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherInforma UK Limiteden
dcterms.subjectagricultural extension systemsen
dcterms.subjectgender analysisen
dcterms.subjectextension approachesen
dcterms.subjectwomen's participationen
dcterms.subjectfarmer participationen
dcterms.subjectwomen farmersen
dcterms.subjectmale involvementen
dcterms.subjectcropping patternsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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