Gender and Productivity Differentials in Smallholder Groundnut Farming in Malawi: Accounting for Technology Differences.
The gender gap in agricultural productivity has been of ongoing interest to development policy and we revisit the subject in the context of groundnut, an important food and cash legume in Sub Saharan Africa. We address production technology differences between male and female managers of groundnut p...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 989 - 1014 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2022
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