Can agricultural input subsidies reduce the gender gap in modern maize adoption? Evidence from Malawi

By M. Fisher, V. Kandiwa. 2014

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Nationally representative data for Malawi were used to measure the gender gap in adoption of modern maize and to investigate how, if at all, Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has impacted the gap. Regression results show the probability of adopting modern maize was 12% lower for wives in male-headed households, and 11% lower for female household heads, than for male farmers. Receipt of subsidized input coupons had no discernible effect on modern maize adoption for male farmers. Receiving a subsidy for both seed and fertilizer increased the probability of modern maize cultivation by 222% for female household heads, suggesting the FISP has likely reduced the gender gap in adoption of modern maize in Malawi.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research

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In Gender Studies

1. T. Jayne

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. N. Mason
2. T. Jayne
3. W. Burke
4. J. Ariga
5. Hannah Wittman
6. C. Ragasa
7. M. Muyanga
8. A. Chapoto

In Safety Research

1. N. Mason
2. T. Jayne

Citations in the corpus

• Review: Taking stock of Africa’s second-generation agricultural input subsidy programs (2018, background): “Some programs officially target “resource-poor” households (e.g., Kenya’s National Accelerated Agricultural Inputs Access Program, NAAIAP) or those that cannot afford fertilizer at unsubsidized prices (e.g., Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program, MFISP, previously known as the Agricultural Input Subsi”
• The State of Family Farms in the World (2016, background): “Gender inequality is a challenge more broadly in Malawi for women farmers, who carry out more than half of all agricultural labor, and gender inequalities in access to extension services, first studied in the 1980s, continues to be a problem (Fisher & Kandiwa, 2014; United Nations, 2013).”