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Title:Gender and Agricultural Extension in Burkina Faso
Authors:Evenson, Robert E.ISNI
Siegel, MicheleISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:46
Issue:1
Pages:75-92
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:gender relations
women farmers
agricultural extension
Women's Issues
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Education and Oral Traditions
agriculture
Education and Training
Sex Roles
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v046/46.1evenson.pdf
Abstract:Given that women represent a significant part of the farm labour force and of farm management in Africa, a number of policy questions are relevant. How do women compare with men in terms of managerial efficiency? Are public sector services to farmers (credit, education, agricultural extension) gender-biased in their effects on farmers? How important is it for women farmers that staff members of these agencies be women? This paper addresses these questions utilizing data from a World Bank survey of 2,406 agricultural households in Burkina Faso (1991).The study included the following components: extension workers' evaluations of extension system problems; estimates of the impact of the Training and Visit (T & V) extension system on extension staffing; estimates of T & V impacts on awareness, testing and adoption of 12 crop technologies specified and recommended by the extension system in the past three years; and estimates of T & V impacts on crop productivity and on crop income in farmers' fields. The study concludes that the provision of higher levels of both government and NGO extension programmes to agricultural households stimulates an increase in plot management by women farmers. Plots managed by women have crop yields similar to those on plots managed by men. App., bibliogr., sum.
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