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Title: | Gender Issues in African Agriculture: Evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Côte d'Ivoire |
Authors: | Burger, Kees Gunning, Jan Willem |
Year: | 1991 |
Issue: | 1991-36 |
Pages: | 58 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Serie research memoranda (ISSN 1381-1649) |
City of publisher: | Amsterdam |
Publisher: | Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Tanzania Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
Subjects: | female-headed households women farm management agriculture Development and Technology Labor and Employment Sex Roles |
External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1871/12230 |
Abstract: | In this research memorandum the authors consider the determinants of investment decisions in agriculture in Kenya, Tanzania and Côte d'Ivoire. Using rural survey data, the authors estimate logits for the adoption of coffee growing in Kenya; livestock in both Kenya and Tanzania; and coffee and cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire. For each of these five cases gender effects are considered. The logits capture three possible gender effects: differences between male and female-headed households, differences in the effect on adoption of the availability in a household of male and female labour, and finally, the possibility that copying effects in adoption decisions are gender specific. Gender effects are revealed in livestock adoption in Tanzania, the adoption of cocoa growing in Côte d'Ivoire, and the adoption of coffee growing in Kenya. |