Gender and generation: an intra-household analysis on access to resources in Southern Mali

Groote, Friedl De; Coulibaly, H. Sow Wife

doi:10.4314/acsj.v6i1.27827

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“…Male-headed households are 11% less likely to adopt SLM technologies in Malawi but 20% more likely to adopt in Ethiopia compared to their female counterparts, holding other factors constant. This finding is similar to those of de Groote and Coulibaly [54] and Gebreselassie et al, [55] that the existing cultural and social setups that dictate access to and control over farm resources (especially land) and other external inputs (such as fertilizer and seeds) tend to discriminate against women.…”

Section: Determinants Of Slm Adoption: Logit Regression Model Estimatsupporting

confidence: 88%

Drivers of Sustainable Land Management in Eastern Africa

Kirui¹

2017

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Land degradation is a serious impediment to improving rural livelihoods in Eastern Africa. This paper identifies major land degradation patterns and causes, and analyzes the determinants of sustainable land management (SLM) in three countries (Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania). The results show that land degradation hotspots cover about 51%, 41%, 23% and 23% of the terrestrial areas in Tanzania, Malawi and Ethiopia respectively. The analysis of nationally representative household surveys shows that the key drivers of SLM in these countries are biophysical, demographic, regional and socio-economic determinants. Secure land tenure, access to extension services and market access are some of the determinants incentivizing SLM adoption. The implications of this study are that policies and strategies that facilities secure land tenure and access to SLM information are likely to incentivize investments in SLM. Local institutions providing credit services, inputs such as seed and fertilizers, and extension services must also not be ignored in the development policies.

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Section: Determinants Of Slm Adoption: Logit Regression Model Estimatsupporting

confidence: 88%

Drivers of Sustainable Land Management in Eastern Africa

Kirui¹

2017

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“…Several scholars in Africa have shown that women have access to critical resource (cash, land and labour), which often undermines their ability to carry out intensive labour agriculture innovation (Quisumbing et al, 1995;De Groote and Coulibaly, 1998). According to Nhemachena and Hassan (2007), female-headed households are more likely to take up climate change adaptation methods.…”

Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Respondentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Nhemachena and Hassan (2007), female-headed households are more likely to take up climate change adaptation methods. A number of studies found that, the possible reason for this observation is that in most local smallholder farming communities in the region, men are more often based in towns and much of the agriculture work is done by women (Nhemachena and Hassan (2007); Quisumbing et al, 1995;De Groote and Coulibaly, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Variability and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Cinzana, Mali

Halimatou

Zampaligré

Traoré

et al. 2016

JAS

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Several studies predict that climate change will highly affect the African continent. These changes in climate and climate variability may be challenging issues for future economic development of the continent in general, and particularly in the region of sub Saharan Africa. Offering a case study of Sahelian zone of Mali in the present study aimed to understand farmers" perceptions of climate variability and change and to evaluate adaptation options used by farmers in the Cinzana commune of Mali. One hundred and nineteen farmers were interviewed using a questionnaire designed with six sections. The result showed that all farmers interviewed were aware of climate change and climate variability. The Farmers perceived a decrease in annual rainfall variability and an increase of temperature as main factors of climate change and climate variability. The observed meteorological data, showed a ISSN 2166-0379 2016 www.macrothink.org/jas 14 decrease of precipitation distribution during the last 14 years of which was observed by farmers. Several strategies such as selling animals, use of improved crop varieties, new activities (outside agriculture) and credit were the commonly preferred adaptation strategies to deal with climate change and variability. Factors surveyed, age, gender, education, household size, farm size were found to be significantly correlated to self-reported to adaptation. Journal of Agricultural Studies

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“…The general argument is that women have less access to important resources and services, such as land, labor, credit and education, and are generally discriminated against in terms of access to external inputs and information (De Groote and Coulibaly 1998;Quisumbing et al 1995). In sub-Saharan Africa, there are gender-specific constraints that women face, such as less education, inadequate access to land, and production assets and livestock ownership.…”

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Facilitating outcomes: multi-stakeholder processes for influencing policy change on urban agriculture in selected West African and South Asian cities

Amerasinghe¹,

Cofie²,

Larbi³

et al. 2013

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The publications in this series cover a wide range of subjects-from computer modeling to experience with water user associations-and vary in content from directly applicable research to more basic studies, on which applied work ultimately depends. Some research reports are narrowly focused, analytical and detailed empirical studies; others are wide-ranging and synthetic overviews of generic problems.Although most of the reports are published by IWMI staff and their collaborators, we welcome contributions from others. Each report is reviewed internally by IWMI staff, and by external reviewers. The reports are published and distributed both in hard copy and electronically (www.iwmi.org) and where possible all data and analyses will be available as separate downloadable files. Reports may be copied freely and cited with due acknowledgment. About IWMIIWMI's mission is to improve the management of land and water resources for food, livelihoods and the environment. In serving this mission, IWMI concentrates on the integration of policies, technologies and management systems to achieve workable solutions to real problems-practical, relevant results in the field of irrigation and water and land resources.

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Gender and generation: an intra-household analysis on access to resources in Southern Mali

Cited by 31 publications

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Drivers of Sustainable Land Management in Eastern Africa

Drivers of Sustainable Land Management in Eastern Africa

Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Variability and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Cinzana, Mali

Facilitating outcomes: multi-stakeholder processes for influencing policy change on urban agriculture in selected West African and South Asian cities

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