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How does the gender gap in agricultural productivity occur and why? This occurs mainly because in most intense, women do not have access to land neither do they have a say though they and their children do most of the production work. Besides, due to lack of resources for guarantee, they more often than not do not have access to finance to farm. For sure, such question and those below have already been looked into by researchers or other institutions and the outcome not shared accordingly with the general public. Otherwise, they must be some answers already available to build on. I glad to see studies result share by some who posted earlier.
What is the role of agricultural research in bridging the gender gap? Agriculture research should work with women and the youth to understand their agriculture activities and find means to resolved challenges they have with tools and methods used as well as developing improved seeds and other input to make their production of quality, quantity and easy to store/keep to reduce post-harvest losses. Thus, their intervention should be an end to end one. The WAAPP project financed by the World Bank has done well in that regards with the technologies developed to reduce effort made by women. There is still room for improvement as, packaging to ensure food safety and hygiene are lagging behind in some countries. Agriculture research should also look into that. Above all, available technologies should be spread across the continent to avoid duplication of efforts. That will help avoid the reinvention of the wheel and enable other key aspects of agriculture to be tackled by researchers.
What are the implications of this gender gap, especially for women in subsistence agriculture? Women will not move out from poverty neither become financially independent to better cater for the kids. More children will not get proper educations and we will have teen pregnancy and early marriages. Meanwhile, Africa needs its children to develop and move from its current state of dependency.
How have these realities been integrated into interventions and projects to reduce the gender gap in agricultural productivity and address the challenges of subsistence agriculture? Nowadays, most of projects' interventions are gender sensitive and are about access to finance for women, technology to reduce their level of effort at work or to use a particular technology. WAAPP, IFDC C4CP, USAID Trade Hub, AfDB etc…
How should the Bank’s Feed Africa Strategy; through its flagship initiatives and programmes be used to reduce the gender gap in agricultural productivity and support a strong foundation for Africa’s agricultural transformation? The bank should develop strategic private and public partnerships with influential stakeholders of the agriculture sector leveraging on their competences and effort to bridge the gender gap by having a global interventions than doing bit and pieces. Furthermore, these areas should be looked into critically:
women capacity building in leadership and research
Build the incubation center the USAID C4CP has as one of their recommendations from one of their women forum to build women in agriculture capacity
Provide technical support to women with great agribusiness ideas to develop their business plan and invest in it. It does not have to necessary be production, it can be processing or any other aspects of the agricultural value chain.
Invest in research from end to end from production, packaging to commercialization.
· Which successful initiatives on women’s agricultural productivity could be scaled up by the AfDB? That of WAAPP, USAID C4CP, USAD-GREEN, AECOM - SIMCA-BF and others that have great result and impact and success stories should be scaled with particular attention to lessons learnt for greater impact.
Gender Gap exists
Soumis par Garcia Honvoh e... le mar, 20/06/2017 - 22:41 Permalien
How does the gender gap in agricultural productivity occur and why? This occurs mainly because in most intense, women do not have access to land neither do they have a say though they and their children do most of the production work. Besides, due to lack of resources for guarantee, they more often than not do not have access to finance to farm. For sure, such question and those below have already been looked into by researchers or other institutions and the outcome not shared accordingly with the general public. Otherwise, they must be some answers already available to build on. I glad to see studies result share by some who posted earlier.
What is the role of agricultural research in bridging the gender gap? Agriculture research should work with women and the youth to understand their agriculture activities and find means to resolved challenges they have with tools and methods used as well as developing improved seeds and other input to make their production of quality, quantity and easy to store/keep to reduce post-harvest losses. Thus, their intervention should be an end to end one. The WAAPP project financed by the World Bank has done well in that regards with the technologies developed to reduce effort made by women. There is still room for improvement as, packaging to ensure food safety and hygiene are lagging behind in some countries. Agriculture research should also look into that. Above all, available technologies should be spread across the continent to avoid duplication of efforts. That will help avoid the reinvention of the wheel and enable other key aspects of agriculture to be tackled by researchers.
What are the implications of this gender gap, especially for women in subsistence agriculture? Women will not move out from poverty neither become financially independent to better cater for the kids. More children will not get proper educations and we will have teen pregnancy and early marriages. Meanwhile, Africa needs its children to develop and move from its current state of dependency.
How have these realities been integrated into interventions and projects to reduce the gender gap in agricultural productivity and address the challenges of subsistence agriculture? Nowadays, most of projects' interventions are gender sensitive and are about access to finance for women, technology to reduce their level of effort at work or to use a particular technology. WAAPP, IFDC C4CP, USAID Trade Hub, AfDB etc…
How should the Bank’s Feed Africa Strategy; through its flagship initiatives and programmes be used to reduce the gender gap in agricultural productivity and support a strong foundation for Africa’s agricultural transformation? The bank should develop strategic private and public partnerships with influential stakeholders of the agriculture sector leveraging on their competences and effort to bridge the gender gap by having a global interventions than doing bit and pieces. Furthermore, these areas should be looked into critically:
· Which successful initiatives on women’s agricultural productivity could be scaled up by the AfDB? That of WAAPP, USAID C4CP, USAD-GREEN, AECOM - SIMCA-BF and others that have great result and impact and success stories should be scaled with particular attention to lessons learnt for greater impact.
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