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creators_name: Singbo, A
creators_name: Njuguna-Mungai, E
creators_name: Yila, J O
creators_name: Sissoko, K
creators_name: Tabo, R
creators_gender: Female
icrisatcreators_name: Njuguna-Mungai, E
icrisatcreators_name: Yila, J O
icrisatcreators_name: Sissoko, K
icrisatcreators_name: Tabo, R
affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics and Consumer Science, Faculty of Food Science and Agriculture, Laval University, Canada
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bamako)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
country: Canada
country: Mali
country: Kenya
title: Examining the Gender Productivity Gap among Farm Households in Mali
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
subjects: s333
subjects: s61
divisions: CRPS5
divisions: CRPS1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Oaxaca–Blinder, Recentred influence function, Agricultural productivity, Gender gap, Mali
note: We would like to thank the editor John Hoddinott and two anonymous referees for their constructive
and useful comments and suggestions.We also thank Bruno Larue for very helpful
comments. Finally,we gratefully acknowledge financial support from the International Crops
Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
abstract: AbstractThis paper decomposes the gender agricultural productivity gap and measures
the factors that influence the gap between male and female agricultural
plot managers in Mali. The Oaxaca–Blinder approach and the recentred influence
function (RIF) decompositionmethodology are applied to a nationally representative
survey of Mali. The results show that the agricultural productivity of female plot
managers is 20.18%lower than that of male plot managers. Additionally, while more
than half (56%) of the agricultural productivity gap is influenced by female-specific
structural disadvantages, 44% of the gap is due to an endowment effect. Socioeconomic
characteristics such as the educational level and age of the plot manager,
environmental factors and agricultural production practices, i.e., the differential
use of inputs (organic or inorganic fertiliser and improved seeds) and the use of
hired female workers seem to affect the female-specific structural disadvantages.
To reduce or close the gender productivity gap, the underlying causes of femalespecific
structural disadvantages must be addressed to enable female farmers to
obtain the same returns as men. Traditional means of addressing the gender gap,
such as providing education for women in rural areas and facilitating rural women’
access to extension services and improved seeds, can mitigate the endowment
deficit. This paper highlights the need to develop a better understanding of the
factors influencing the structural disadvantages faced by female farmers inMali that
could feed into the development ofmore effective policies to address the gender gap
in agricultural productivity, improving productivity and gender equity and reducing
poverty.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publication: Journal of African Economies (TSI)
publisher: Oxford University Press
pagerange: 1-34
id_number: doi:10.1093/jae/ejaa008
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0963-8024
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejaa008
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citation:   Singbo, A and Njuguna-Mungai, E and Yila, J O and Sissoko, K and Tabo, R  (2020) Examining the Gender Productivity Gap among Farm Households in Mali.  Journal of African Economies (TSI).  pp. 1-34.  ISSN 0963-8024     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11732/1/Examining-the-Gender-Productivity-Gap-among-Farm-Households-in-Mali.pdf