Quantifying Common Trend of Gender Agricultural Productivity Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisals.

This study aims to provide a better understanding of the recent vast literature on gender agricultural productivity issues in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Due to some discrepancies in research findings, a systematic review and a meta-analysis methods are applied to synthesize the gender agricultural pr...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 62; no. 9; pp. 1661 - 1685
Autores principales: Adegbola, Carine, Singbo, Alphonse
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2026
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          Adegbola, Carine
          Singbo, Alphonse
        affil: Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Science and Centre for Research on the Economics of the Environment, Agri-Food, Transports and Energy (CREATE), Laval University, Québec, QC, Canada
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        Africa
        Publication bias
        Factors of production
        Sub-Saharan Africans
        Evidence synthesis
        Research methodology
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          Africa
          Publication bias
          Factors of production
          Sub-Saharan Africans
          Evidence synthesis
          Research methodology
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        Food security
        gender agricultural productivity gap
        meta-analysis
        sub-Saharan Africa
        systematic review
        Food security
        gender agricultural productivity gap
        meta-analysis
        sub-Saharan Africa
        systematic review
      ab: This study aims to provide a better understanding of the recent vast literature on gender agricultural productivity issues in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Due to some discrepancies in research findings, a systematic review and a meta-analysis methods are applied to synthesize the gender agricultural productivity gap (GAPG), and its main drivers as well as to explore the bias when using different empirical approaches of estimation. Overall, 61 studies are selected using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flowchart. Results show that factors related to access and control over productive resources are the main drivers of the GAPG in SSA. Adjusting for publication bias yields a benchmark estimate of 14% of the gap, based primarily on land productivity or output value. The magnitude of this common trend varies by geographical region but not by household framework used. Policy interventions aimed at reducing gender gap in SSA should then be context specific. Furthermore, the meta-regression analysis results reveal that GAPG estimates are affected by study characteristics like gender of the researchers and use of cross-sectional or panel data.
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