16 pages, Systematic reviews and meta-analyses generally focus on intervention impacts or outcomes. Less common, however, are reviews of the assumptions and theory underlying the pathways between intervention and outcome. We consider the hypothetical case for interventions to empower female farmers, either by prioritising women for new investments or re-allocating existing resources. Empowerment is defined as increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income. We hypothesise two avenues through which productivity or health benefits might arise: (i) eliminating female-male differences in, e.g. input access; or (ii) leveraging gendered risk, time, and social preferences leading women to differentially allocate resources. A review of evidence highlights the extent of support for the baseline, behaviour change, and economic benefit assumptions behind these hypothesised avenues. Findings suggest returns to investing in female farmers could be significant in various contexts but estimates of economic returns to empowering women in agriculture remain limited.
Khan, Asmatullah (author), Morgan, Gary (author), Sofranko, Andrew J. (author), and Khan: Associate Professor of Extension Education, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan; Morgan: Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL; Sofranko: Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Pakistan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05052
Moore, Mick (author / Fellow, the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton) and Fellow, the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984-07
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03871
