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1 Williams, F. E.; Taron, Avinandan. 2020. Demand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key crops. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 26(4):383-400. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2020.1726778]
Agricultural extension systems ; Gender analysis ; Extension approaches ; Women's participation ; Farmer participation ; Women farmers ; Male involvement ; Cropping patterns / South Asia / South East Asia / Africa South of Sahara / India / Bangladesh / Nepal / Sri Lanka / Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia / Thailand / Kenya / Ghana / Malawi / Rwanda / Zambia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049538)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1389224X.2020.1726778?needAccess=true#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xMzg5MjI0WC4yMDIwLjE3MjY3Nzg/bmVlZEFjY2Vzcz10cnVlQEBAMA==
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049538.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049538.pdf
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Purpose: The need to increase women’s access to extension has been extensively discussed. This paper assesses women’s access to extension services through the Plantwise extension approach as a baseline for future comparison of women’s access through other extension approaches. It also assesses whether crops that men and women farmers seek plant health advice on are similar or not, and attempts to disperse assumptions that continue to be made about what crops women and men grow.
Approach: We analysed data from the Plantwise Online Management System for 13 countries using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings: We show that the Plantwise extension approach enables higher levels of women’s access than generally reported for agricultural extension, that the crops that women and men seek extension advice on is not gender dependent, and there are few clear distinctions between their crops of interest.
Practical implications: There is limited literature studying gender inclusiveness in different extension approaches. The findings add to the documentation of assessing women’s access to demand-driven extension.
Theoretical implications: Plantwise is a new extension approach which needs to be assessed from spatial and temporal perspectives to understand whether demand-driven extension enables increased women’s access over time.
Originality/value: Extension service provision is often based on assumptions about what crops are being grown. Small studies have challenged these assumptions, but this large dataset enables us to test these assumptions more thoroughly across 13 countries adding to the weight of evidence against the existence of women’s and men’s crops.
Approach: We analysed data from the Plantwise Online Management System for 13 countries using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings: We show that the Plantwise extension approach enables higher levels of women’s access than generally reported for agricultural extension, that the crops that women and men seek extension advice on is not gender dependent, and there are few clear distinctions between their crops of interest.
Practical implications: There is limited literature studying gender inclusiveness in different extension approaches. The findings add to the documentation of assessing women’s access to demand-driven extension.
Theoretical implications: Plantwise is a new extension approach which needs to be assessed from spatial and temporal perspectives to understand whether demand-driven extension enables increased women’s access over time.
Originality/value: Extension service provision is often based on assumptions about what crops are being grown. Small studies have challenged these assumptions, but this large dataset enables us to test these assumptions more thoroughly across 13 countries adding to the weight of evidence against the existence of women’s and men’s crops.
2 Alvi, M.; Barooah, P.; Gupta, S.; Saini, S. 2021. Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal. Agricultural Systems, 188:103035. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103035]
Agricultural extension systems ; Gender ; Women farmers ; Access to information ; COVID-19 ; Pandemics ; Resilience ; Agricultural productivity ; Social networks ; Households ; Ethnic groups ; Communities ; State intervention / South Asia / India / Nepal / Gujarat / Dang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050162)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X20308969/pdfft?md5=770c598c6cc5e8954a4b9426e0f58cc0&pid=1-s2.0-S0308521X20308969-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050162.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050162.pdf
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COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to agricultural extension was impacted by the lockdowns and its effect on agricultural productivity. We find that women's already low access to formal extension was reduced further, leading to an increased reliance on informal social networks. In both countries, nearly 50% farmers reported negative impacts on productivity due to inaccessibility of information during the lockdown. In India, we find that access to formal extension is mediated by crop type, geographic location and caste identity. We discuss ways in which extension systems in India and Nepal can be made more inclusive and resilient to future crisis, including by adapting group and community-based approaches to post-pandemic best practices.
3 Lee, H. B.; McNamara, P. E.; Bhattacharyya, K. 2022. Does linking women farmers to markets improve food security? Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Agriculture and Food Security, 11:33. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-022-00373-6]
Women farmers ; Markets ; Food security ; Small scale farming ; Food production ; Agricultural extension systems ; Collective action ; Marketing ; Participation ; Households ; Villages ; Rural areas ; Models / Bangladesh / Barisal / Dinajpur
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051271)
https://agricultureandfoodsecurity.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40066-022-00373-6.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051271.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051271.pdf
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Background: This study examined the effect of linking small-scale women farmers to markets, referred to as community marketing, and homestead food production extension services in two districts of rural Bangladesh.
Method: We particularly focused on identifying the relationship between treatment and food security, monthly expenditure patterns, and food production and marketing by adopting a doubly robust method that mediated bias from project site selection and potential misspecification of the postulated outcome or treatment model.
Results: The main results showed that establishing community marketing sites along with extension services provided women farmers a secured marketing outlet for food production, plausibly associated with a decreased likelihood of a reduction in monthly expenditures on healthcare (12.7 percentage points), child education (19.4 percentage points), and transportation (51.5 percentage points) during the lean season. However, if farmers did not spend extra income generated from marketing on food purchases, it would be difficult to anticipate an improvement in food security.
Conclusion: Community marketing was devised to link women smallholders to the markets without conflicting with social and cultural norms for which women were responsive, and our research findings supported the claim that they benefited from community marketing participation. Therefore, government, NGO, or other extension providers looking for a culturally appropriate approach to address women farmers’ limited mobility may consider using or modifying community marketing.
Method: We particularly focused on identifying the relationship between treatment and food security, monthly expenditure patterns, and food production and marketing by adopting a doubly robust method that mediated bias from project site selection and potential misspecification of the postulated outcome or treatment model.
Results: The main results showed that establishing community marketing sites along with extension services provided women farmers a secured marketing outlet for food production, plausibly associated with a decreased likelihood of a reduction in monthly expenditures on healthcare (12.7 percentage points), child education (19.4 percentage points), and transportation (51.5 percentage points) during the lean season. However, if farmers did not spend extra income generated from marketing on food purchases, it would be difficult to anticipate an improvement in food security.
Conclusion: Community marketing was devised to link women smallholders to the markets without conflicting with social and cultural norms for which women were responsive, and our research findings supported the claim that they benefited from community marketing participation. Therefore, government, NGO, or other extension providers looking for a culturally appropriate approach to address women farmers’ limited mobility may consider using or modifying community marketing.
4 Joshi, P. K.; Varshney, D. 2022. Agricultural technologies in India: a review. Mumbai, India: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Department of Economic Analysis and Research. 66p. (NABARD Research and Policy Series 5/2022)
Agricultural sector ; Technology ; Agricultural productivity ; Conservation agriculture ; Agricultural research ; Agricultural mechanization ; High yielding varieties ; Genetic improvement ; Biotechnology ; Biofortification ; Climate-smart agriculture ; Digital technology ; Water use efficiency ; Farmers ; Agricultural extension systems ; Policies ; Farm income ; Natural resources management ; Climate change / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051316)
https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1507223612Paper-5-Agricultural-Tech-in-India-Dr.Joshi-&-Varshney.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051316.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051316.pdf
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