Addressing gender gaps in agricultural productivity in Africa: comparative case studies from Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda+

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dc.contributor.authorAsa Torkelsson
dc.contributor.authorFrancis Onditi
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-20T06:15:26Z
dc.date.available2024-08-20T06:15:26Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article examines why, in most African countries, women farmers achieve lower productivity in agriculture than men. It contributes to this debate by interrogating whether or not addressing gender gaps in agricultural production significantly contributes to socio-economic well-being (resilience) of women as well as the gross domestic product (GDP). The Living Standards Measurement Studies-Integrated Survey for Agriculture projects was adopted to produce estimates for three countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda). The article draws from a research report and collaborative study by UN Women with UNEP and World Bank. The result shows that although female farmers individually manage slightly more than 25 per cent of all plots in Malawi and Uganda and about 20 per cent of all plots in Tanzania, Malawi shows the largest difference in mean productivity where women’s plots are, on average, 28 per cent less productive than men’s while Tanzania and Uganda reported 16 per cent and 13 per cent gender gaps, respectively. This result implies that the importance of other productive resources other than access to land may be key – for instance, the need to tackle constraints related to women’s access to “household male labour” and policies that help women farmers to access labour-saving technologies.
dc.identifier.citationTorkelsson, Asa and F. Onditi. 2018. Addressing gender gaps in agricultural productivity in Africa: Comparative case studies from Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda. Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 9 (1): 34-57.DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v9i1.3
dc.identifier.issneISSN: 2467-8392 print ISSN: 2467-8406
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ru.ac.ke/handle/123456789/108
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJournal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 9 No. 1 (2018): Special Issue
dc.subjectLand Access
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectAgricultural Productivity
dc.subjectMalawi
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.subjectUganda.
dc.titleAddressing gender gaps in agricultural productivity in Africa: comparative case studies from Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda+
dc.typeArticle

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