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creators_name: Joe-Nkamuke, U
creators_name: Olagunju, K O
creators_name: Njuguna, E M
creators_name: Mausch, K
icrisatcreators_name: Njuguna, E M
affiliation: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), (Abuja)
affiliation: Agrifood and Biosciences Institute, (Belfast)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: World Agroforestry (ICRAF),(Nairobi)
country: Nigeria
country: UK
country: Kenya
title: Is there any gender gap in the production of legumes in Malawi? Evidence from the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition model
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.2
subjects: s1.3
subjects: s333
subjects: s355
subjects: s60
divisions: CRPS5
crps: CG1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Agricultural productivity, Gender differences, Decomposition, Malawi
abstract: Understanding the gender differences in agricultural productivity is crucial for formulating informed and effective policies to sustainably improve low productivity which characterises agriculture in Sub-Sahara Africa. Using a panel dataset from the ICRISAT led Tropical Legumes project III (2008–2013), we analyse the gender gap in the production of legumes in Malawi. Employing the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition method allows decomposition of gender gap into the following: (i) the portion caused by observable differences in the factors of production (endowment effect) and (ii) the unexplained portion caused by differences in return to the same observed factors of production (structural effect). We conducted the empirical analysis separately for pigeonpea and groundnut. Our findings reveal that for groundnut cultivated plots, women are 28% less productive than men after controlling for observed factors of production; however, the gender gap estimated in the pigeonpea cultivated plots are not statistically significant. The decomposition estimates reveal that the endowment effect is more relevant than the structural effect, suggesting that access to productive inputs contributes largest to the gender gap in groundnut productivity, and if women involved had access to equal level of inputs, the gap will be reduced significantly. The variation in the findings for groundnut and pigeon plot suggests that policy orientation towards reducing gender productivity gap should be crop specific.
date: 2019-11
date_type: published
publication: Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies
publisher: Springer Verlag
id_number: doi:10.1007/s41130-019-00090-y
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2425-6870
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-019-00090-y
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funders: CRP-CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
projects: Tropical Legumes (TL) III project
citation:   Joe-Nkamuke, U and Olagunju, K O and Njuguna, E M and Mausch, K  (2019) Is there any gender gap in the production of legumes in Malawi? Evidence from the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition model.  Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies.   ISSN 2425-6870     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11337/1/2019_Gender%20gaps%20Malawi_Uzo.pdf