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datestamp: 2020-11-03 05:25:31
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creators_name: Muricho, G
creators_name: Lokossou, J
creators_name: Affognon, H
creators_name: Ahmed, B
creators_name: Desmae, H
creators_name: Ajeigbe, H
creators_name: Vabi, M B
creators_name: Yila, J
creators_name: Akpo, E
creators_name: Ojiewo, C
creators_gender: Female
icrisatcreators_name: Muricho, G
icrisatcreators_name: Lokossou, J
icrisatcreators_name: Desmae, H
icrisatcreators_name: Ajeigbe, H
icrisatcreators_name: Vabi, M B
icrisatcreators_name: Yila, J
icrisatcreators_name: Akpo, E
icrisatcreators_name: Ojiewo, C
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
affiliation: ICRIAT (Bamako)
affiliation: West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF), Dakar, Senegal
affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture/Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
affiliation: ICRISAT (Kano)
country: Kenya
country: Mali
country: Senegal
country: Nigeria
title: Estimating and Decomposing Groundnut Gender Yield Gap: Evidence from Rural Farming Households in Northern Nigeria
ispublished: pub
subjects: S51
subjects: s1.3
subjects: s333
divisions: CRPS5
divisions: CRPS1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Groundnut, Nigeria, Gender, Yield gap, Resources
note: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this research by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation (BMGF).
abstract: Poverty among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa has been associated with low
agricultural productivity emanating from gender yield gaps among other factors. Using data collected
from smallholder groundnut producers in Nigeria, we analyzed the gender yield gap by applying the
exogenous switching regression (ESR) model and Oaxaca–Blinder (OB) decomposition framework.
Results from the two complementary approaches showed a significant gender yield gap in favor of
male headed households (MHHs). The main and significant source of the gap was differences in
resources/endowments. We found that involving female headed households (FHHs) in prerequisite
yield augmenting activities like technology validation trials, testing, and demonstrations is critical in
closing the existing yield gap.
date: 2020-10
date_type: published
publication: Sustainability (TSI)
volume: 12
number: 21
publisher: MDPI
pagerange: 1-20
id_number: doi:10.3390/su12218923
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2071-1050
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218923
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=10.3390%2Fsu12218923&btnG=
related_url_type: pub
funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
projects: Tropical Legumes (TL)
citation:   Muricho, G and Lokossou, J and Affognon, H and Ahmed, B and Desmae, H and Ajeigbe, H and Vabi, M B and Yila, J and Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C  (2020) Estimating and Decomposing Groundnut Gender Yield Gap: Evidence from Rural Farming Households in Northern Nigeria.  Sustainability (TSI), 12 (21).  pp. 1-20.  ISSN 2071-1050     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11635/1/sustainability-12-08923.pdf