The GENDER RELATIONS AND INTRA-HOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS: WOMEN’ S ACCESS TO AGRICULTURE EXTENSION AND ADVISORY SERVICES IN KABLE DISTRICT, UGANDA

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 467-494
Author(s):  
Peace Mbabazi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Advisory Services ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Power Setting ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Agriculture Extension

Abstract Gender relations embody and justify unequal power relations in intra-household allocation and livelihood improvement strategies. While women are the main actors in agriculture production in the Kabale’s dominant smallholder farmer households, they are restricted from control and use of the production resources necessary to access Agriculture Extension and Advisory Services. Household and higher level institutional structures are within patriarchal power setting and women have to bargain through explicit and implicit ways to access household resources, each with implications on accessibility to support services needed to improve livelihood. There are however, some few cases of mutual cooperation with positive ramifications on access to extension services as well as on household livelihood outcomes. While this paper recognizes eminent reforms during the era of agriculture modernisation, these have not yet fully achieved power and institutional transformation for the meaningful positioning of women with regard to control and use of resources needed to access extension services at household level.

Consumption Inequality Among Children: Evidence from Child Fostering in Malawi*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Penglase
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
Child Fostering ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Different Types

Abstract The share of household resources devoted to a child may depend on their gender, birth order, or relationship to the household head. However, it is challenging to determine whether parents favour certain children over others as consumption data is collected at the household level and goods are shared among family members. I develop a new methodology using the collective household framework to identify consumption inequality between different types of children. I apply this method to child fostering in Malawi. I find little evidence of inequality between foster and non-foster children.

Extension Professionals Preparedness for Demand-Driven Agriculture Extension Services in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramjee P. Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Extension Professionals ◽  
Agriculture Extension ◽  
High Educational ◽  
Basic Induction

A self-administered survey was conducted among agricultural extension professionals in Nepal in August - September of 2015 to examine their level of competency for demand-driven extension services to estimate the predictors for demand-driven competency, and to identify ways to acquire these competencies. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression analysis. Data revealed that respondents perceived themselves as having amoderate level of competency. Those with high educational levels perceived themselves as having higher competency. Extension Professionals (ER) viewed preservice, in-service, basic induction, and workshop/seminar/webinar as appropriate ways to acquire competencies. Government professionals leaned much more toward in-service and basic induction training than non-government professionals.

scholarly journals Advisory and Extension Services Related to the Supply of Agricultural Inputs in Cameroon: The Case of the Mifi and Menoua Divisions

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-100
Author(s):  
Faylone Gaelle Mademguia Kuissu ◽  
Guillaume Hensel Fongang Fouepe ◽  
René Mbonomo Bikomo
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Conventional Agriculture ◽  
Advisory Services ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Agricultural Input

Aims: The liberalization of the agricultural sector has facilitated the advent of multitude stakeholders with varied profiles involved in the provision of numerous services to agriculture. This study analyzes the advisory and extension services that support the provision of agricultural inputs in two Divisions of the Western Region of Cameroon (Mifi and Menoua). Study Design and Methodology: These areas are home to about 60% of the private agricultural input distributors involved in the provision of agricultural advisory and extension services within the region Data collected by questionnaire and interview guide were carried out with 62 agricultural inputs sellers with input shops on the one hand, and 7 managers of a number of organizations involved in the provision of agricultural services on the other hand.   Results: private agricultural input providers use several agricultural advisory and extension approaches: 42% among them use agricultural extension approach, while 32% use advice to the family farm approach, 21% use organizational capacity building advice and 5%, demand driven approaches. The terms for providing these agricultural extension and advisory services depend on the rationalities of each of these providers. Some agricultural extension and advisory services providers (NGOs, CIGs) promote agroecology through the diffusion of organic inputs, while others promote conventional agriculture through the popularization of synthetic chemical inputs. Access to services by beneficiaries are either paid-offerings or free-offerings. Findings also reveal that in some cases, the actions of some of these providers in the field are intertwined and lead to a collaborative relationship, while in other cases providers work completely compartmentalized leading to negative effects and low performance of the local agricultural extension and advisory system. Conclusion: The advent of private providers has increased the number of actors with various profiles leading to potential advantages (e.g., includes access to agricultural information). Yet these potentials have not yet been fully valorized in the provision of agricultural advisory and extension services to farmers. And the needs of farmers have only been partially met. It would be equally crucial to factor climate risks as integral part of extension and advisory services.

scholarly journals Access to and Control over Household Resources: A Consistency Check Using Gender Analysis and Household Survey Data

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
D Devkota
Keyword(s):  
Household Survey ◽  
Information Collection ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Large Animals ◽  
Agriculture Extension ◽  
And Control

A study was conducted during 1998 covering three Village Development Committees (VDCs) ofChitwan district, Nepal, to examine the consistency of results if carried out independently usingformal and informal methods of information collection. Gender analysis (access and controlprofiles), and a face-to-face household survey (n = 123 households) were employed for thispurpose. Gender differences in access to and control over household resources was studied.Results showed a consistent response from both household survey and gender analysis for mostof the parameters studied, such as access to agriculture extension and veterinary services,participation in training, and community work. Gender response for control over resources, suchas income from small animals was also similar from both methods. However, some of theparameters were not consistent in response. For example, there was no participation of women incontrol over income from cash crops and cereal crops and large animals as strongly indicated bygender analysis, which was not visible in the case of household survey. This raises a questionabout the reliability of using only one approach of information collection for rural developmentresearch. On the basis of these results, we suggest a combine approach of quantitative andqualitative methods of data collection, which could be more reliable, informative andappropriate. The use of multiple methods also allows the researcher to cross-reference in order tovalidate the trustworthiness of information.Key words: Gender analysis; household survey; triangulationDOI: 10.3126/narj.v7i0.1875Nepal Agriculture Research Journal Vol.7 2006 pp.98-102

PROFIT EFFICIENCY OF SMALLHOLDER COCOYAM-BASED FARMERS AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
C. A. AFOLAMI ◽  
I. B. OGUNGBENRO
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Estimates ◽  
Profit Efficiency ◽  
Food Category ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Land Use Efficiency ◽  
Use Of Resources

Cocoyam belongs to the indispensable food category that supplies calorie in the diet of the Nigerian populace. However, researches on its nutrition and economic values are scarce leading to low production and under consumption among the populace. Against the backdrop of the great potential of the Nigerian agriculture in cocoyam production, and the need for land use efficiency, sustainable development, poverty alleviation, attainment of food –security/ self-sufficiency and adequate resource allocation to the production of the crop, this study examined farm level profit efficiency and  its determinants for   smallholder cocoyam-based farmers in Osun State, South-west Nigeria, using Cobb-Douglas stochastic profit function. Multistage and random sampling techniques were used to select 180 small-holder cocoyam farmers during the 2014 growing season and data were collected from them on their socio-economic and production characteristics. Maximum likelihood estimates of the specified models revealed an average profit efficiency of 44.88 percent which indicated that the profit of the farmers can be increased by 55 percent with the same production cost. The study also found that the  level of education of the farmers, access to credit, farming experience, household size, access to extension services, and marital status are factors  affecting farm-level profit efficiency in the use of resources.  Farm-level policies aimed at promoting the farmers education, access to credit, access to extension services and marital status are recommended for improved profit efficiency.      

Bigger than men? Gender relations and their changing meaning in Kipsigis society, Kenya

Africa ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorthe von Bülow
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Household Resources ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
Property Complex

AbstractThis article examines why Kipsigis women today appear strong and determined although colonisation and commoditisation have led to an increase in their subordination. Inspired by studies that link cultural ideas about gender with actual social relations, I investigate how Kipsigis ideas about female and male interact with production relations. I argue that gender relations and meanings attributed to gender have altered radically during this century, and that changed economic and political circumstances have led to new struggles over the meaning and interpretation of gender ideologies. The article demonstrates how Kipsigis women manage to negotiate control over household resources by referring to and manipulating customary ideas about status and rights within the house property complex practised in pre-colonial society.

scholarly journals ICT Based Agro-Advisory Services in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
R. Paudel ◽  
P. Baral ◽  
S. Lamichhane ◽  
B. P. Marahatta
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Advisory Services ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Agriculture Extension

The world has already witnessed the rapid surge in use of Information Technology (IT) in agriculture and understands its effectiveness through the miracles we have achieved. In such context, agriculture extension and advisory service in Nepal can be heavily boosted with the help of most effective and affordable information and communication technologies (ICTs). With smart phones, internet services, mobile networks, televisions and radio widespread all over the country, they can prove to be a promising means for dissipation of information in rapidly altering and modernizing farming system of Nepal. This paper aims to explore the current scenario, role and effectiveness of ICTs in agro-advisory services of Nepal and to point out salient issues hampering the development of ICT. Information and findings are based on available literature, articles and publications and they suggest that ICTs can play a crucial role in linking extension, research and farmers and in the overall development of agriculture especially in the context of developing country like Nepal. The potential contribution of ICT in agriculture extension is still fully unexplored and they can be effective means for providing timely and relevant information to farmers residing in every corner of the country.

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