Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.coverage.countryNiger
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierFleur Wouterse: 0000-0001-7186-9270
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEIA)
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - West and Central Africa Office
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1509en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorWouterse, Fleur Stephanieen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:23:01Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:23:01Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147545
dc.titleEmpowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Nigeren
dcterms.abstractNiger is a landlocked Sahelian country, two-thirds of which is in the Sahara desert, with only one-eighth of the land considered arable. Nevertheless, more than 90 percent of Niger’s labor force is employed in agriculture, which is predominantly subsistence oriented. Since the great famines of the 1970s and 1980s, the country has pursued agrarian intensification through technological change to address challenges to the food security situation. However, this approach has failed to recognize that the main characteristic of the Sahelian part of West Africa is the intricate complexity of the social, environmental, and economic dimensions that differentially affect male and female rural dwellers. One example is the patrilineal tenure system, which under increased population pressure has led to the exclusion of women and youth from agriculture in some areas. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) indicates that access to land is one important dimension of empowerment. In order to assess the role of empowerment in agricultural production, we use new household- and individual-level WEAI data from Niger and regression analysis. Our results show that empowerment is important for agricultural production and that households in which adult individuals are more empowered are more productive. This means that other and possibly more effective pathways to agrarian intensification exist and important agricultural productivity gains could be made by empowering men and women in rural households.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWouterse, Fleur Stephanie. 2016. Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from rural households in Niger. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1509. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147545en
dcterms.extent28 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2016-02-19
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/154140en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149435en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142001en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1408797en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130167en
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten
dcterms.subjectagricultural productionen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.subjectintensificationen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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