The Unintended Side-Effects of a Major Development Strategy: Commercialization of Smallholder Production and Women Empowerment in Uganda

Ntakyo, Proscovia Renzaho; Berg, Matthijs van den

doi:10.1080/00220388.2022.2032671

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“…Farm level empowerment especially of female farmers is an ongoing debate as it has been found to be a viable pathway of improving farm performance through superior capacity, better decisions and efficient processes. Recent studies that have contributed to this debate include Ntakyo and Berg (2022) and Anik and Rahman (2020) . Empowerment in agriculture index is measured as a score ranging from zero (for farmers not empowered at all) to one (for fully empowered farmers).…”

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Determinants of farmer empowerment in agriculture in Kenya: A Tobit approach

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“…The resulting commercialization index is continuous and ranges between zero and one. Market access has been found to positively influence empowerment in agriculture ( Ntakyo and Berg, 2022 ).…”

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Determinants of farmer empowerment in agriculture in Kenya: A Tobit approach

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Nzuma²,

Githinji³

2022

Heliyon

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“…Accordingly, quantitative papers have operationalized measures of empowerment symmetrically for men and women. Several studies look at the relationship between development outcomes and either the empowerment gap between spouses ( Kumar et al, 2021 ; Seymour, 2017 ; Sraboni et al, 2014 ) or spousal empowerment measured separately for husbands and wives ( Crookston et al, 2021 ; Malapit et al, 2019 ; Ntakyo & Van Den Berg, 2022 ; Osiewalska, 2018 ). One study looks at the relationship between husbands' and wives' empowerment ( Akter & Francis-Tan, 2021 ).…”

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How does empowering men affect intimate partner violence? Evidence from Bangladesh

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Importance of women empowerment for eco‐efficiency of small farms in the context of other social factors: Building sustainable agriculture in Central and Eastern European countries

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Prędki,

Brelik

2024

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It is widely assumed that women's empowerment plays a key role in achieving sustainability in agriculture. However, there is a lack of empirical analysis to support this claim and operationalise the concept of women's empowerment. Furthermore, it has not been formally demonstrated through which farming practices women's empowerment can contribute to the development of sustainable agriculture, or whether gender empowerment is indeed meaningful compared with other well‐documented social drivers. We calculated frontier eco‐efficiency, taking into account specific environmental pressures (i.e., soil biodiversity loss) and public goods (i.e., plant diversity) as desirable outputs in small crop farms, which dominate in Central and Eastern European countries (Poland, Romania, Serbia and Moldova), based on a survey conducted in a sample of 1630 units. We estimated the impact of different levels of women's and men's empowerment on eco‐efficiency in the context of other time‐invariant socio‐economic factors (i.e., succession, age, education and specialisation) in a two‐stage double‐bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. A set of four levels of gender empowerment was defined, taking into account social participation and decision‐making power. We then assessed the degree of input and output inefficiency associated with each level of gender empowerment. The general conclusion is that lower levels of women's empowerment have a negative impact on eco‐efficiency. Therefore, the issue of gender empowerment, not only in terms of equality, decision‐making and access to resources, but also in terms of social participation, should be emphasised in sustainable agriculture policies, on a par with the issue of ageing farmers and farm succession.

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The Unintended Side-Effects of a Major Development Strategy: Commercialization of Smallholder Production and Women Empowerment in Uganda

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Determinants of farmer empowerment in agriculture in Kenya: A Tobit approach

Determinants of farmer empowerment in agriculture in Kenya: A Tobit approach

How does empowering men affect intimate partner violence? Evidence from Bangladesh

Importance of women empowerment for eco‐efficiency of small farms in the context of other social factors: Building sustainable agriculture in Central and Eastern European countries

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