Gendered food security in rural Malawi: why is women’s food security status lower?

Untangling gender differentiated food security gaps in Bhutan: An application of exogenous switching treatment regression

“…Our results are similar to the findings of the study in Kenya and Malawi by Kassie et al. (, ). For MHHs and de facto FHHs, nonfarm participation is significantly and positively associated with food security, while it is not the case for de jure FHHs.…”

“…Based on the previous studies (De Brauw, ; Doss, ; Fuwa, ; Kassie et al., ; Kassie et al., ; Kieran et al., ; Quisumbing et al., ; Quisumbing & Maluccio, ; Quisumbing & Pandolfelli, ; Sraboni et al., ), we designed the conceptual framework of our study (see Figure ). Food insecurity is a serious problem facing the developing countries and is associated not only with economic factors but also with social values, culture, and gender.…”

“…Review of existing literature shows that there are three key issues related to food insecurity: (i) access to factors that enhance the agricultural production; (ii) access to factors that enhance household income, that is, the food purchasing capacity; (iii) allocation decision of resources to family food security (e.g., investing more on food crops rather than in cash crops) and well‐being. Studies have found that compared with MHHs the FHHs are less food secure mainly because of the fact that returns on their factors are less as compared with the male (Kassie et al., , ). However, it cannot be generalized in all cases and needs an empirical assessment.…”

“…The present study applied exogenous switching treatment regression estimation procedure, which disentangles different forms of inequalities stemming from different exogenous variables. Unlike previous studies (e.g., Kassie, Ndiritu, & Stage, 2014;Kassie, Stage, Teklewold, & Erenstein, 2015), this study used a large and nationally representative sample size and thus, was able to carry out econometric analyses separately for de facto and de jure FHHs without encountering potential micro-numerosity problems 1 (Goldberger, 1964;Goldberger & Goldberger, 1991). Finally, unlike other studies, the present study considered that food security is determined by the overall income of a household rather than only agricultural income.…”

Gender and inorganic nitrogen: what are the implications of moving towards a more balanced use of nitrogen fertilizer in the tropics?

“…Since the playing field is not level due to gender inequalities in intra-household decisionmaking around access to resources and resource allocation, so the argument goes, gender-differentiated productivity outcomes almost inevitably arise. These differentials diminish or are eliminated once input use is taken into consideration (Doss, 2015;Kassie, Stage, Teklewold, & Erenstein, 2015;Marenya, Kassie, & Tostao, 2015;Ndiritu, Kassie, & Shiferaw, 2014). These studies show that spouses often make distinct agricultural choices within the same household, implying that a unitary household bargaining model is incapable of analysing farming choices (Sheremenko & Magnan, 2015).…”