TY  - CONF
AV  - public
N2  - We explore the relationship between commercialisation and gender for groundnuts in Eastern Province, Zambia, using a mixed methods approach. Women saw themselves as having greater control over groundnuts than other crops, and both sexes saw groundnuts as controlled by women. Focus Group Discussions reported higher levels of control than found in a household survey. Propensity Score Matching showed that the machine shelling and higher sales did not reduce women?s perceived level of control over groundnuts. Women welcomed greater male participation in machine shelling because it reduced the drudgery of shelling by hand. This suggests that commercialisation did not disempower women.
UR  - http://oar.icrisat.org/9031/
SP  - 01
Y1  - 2015/08//
T2  - International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE)
EP  - 35
TI  - What do we mean by ?women?s crops?? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name
ID  - icrisat9031
A1  - Orr, A
A1  - Tsusaka, T W
A1  - Kee-Tui, S H
A1  - Msere, H
KW  - Women Farmers
KW  -  Female Farmers
KW  -  Gender Studies
KW  -  Gender Research
KW  -  Zambia
KW  -  Groundnut
KW  -  Food Crops
KW  -  Commercialisation
M2  - Milan, Italy
ER  -