Economic Benefits of Empowering Women in Agriculture: Assumptions and Evidence.

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses generally focus on intervention impacts or outcomes. Less common, however, are reviews of the assumptions and theory underlying the pathways between intervention and outcome. We consider the hypothetical case for interventions to empower female farmers, either by...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 193 - 209
Autores principales: Anderson, C. Leigh, Reynolds, Travis W., Biscaye, Pierre, Patwardhan, Vedavati, Schmidt, Carly
Formato: Literature Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2021
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          Reynolds, Travis W.
          Biscaye, Pierre
          Patwardhan, Vedavati
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          Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
          Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
          Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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        Behavior
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      ab: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses generally focus on intervention impacts or outcomes. Less common, however, are reviews of the assumptions and theory underlying the pathways between intervention and outcome. We consider the hypothetical case for interventions to empower female farmers, either by prioritising women for new investments or re-allocating existing resources. Empowerment is defined as increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income. We hypothesise two avenues through which productivity or health benefits might arise: (i) eliminating female-male differences in, e.g. input access; or (ii) leveraging gendered risk, time, and social preferences leading women to differentially allocate resources. A review of evidence highlights the extent of support for the baseline, behaviour change, and economic benefit assumptions behind these hypothesised avenues. Findings suggest returns to investing in female farmers could be significant in various contexts but estimates of economic returns to empowering women in agriculture remain limited.
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