Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria and Uganda

By Amber Peterman, A. Quisumbing, Julia A. Behrman, E. Nkonya. 2011

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Subfields: Gender Studies, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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Limits to Green Revolution in rice in Africa: The case of Ghana (2017, background): “1 A common measure of productivity used in the literature is the value of yield per hectare of various crops (see Owens, Hoddinott, and Kinsey 2003; Peterman et al. 2011) to capture intercropped systems.”
Caught in a Productivity Trap: A Distributional Perspective on Gender Differences in Malawian Agriculture (2013, unknown): “6 efforts are that the members of a given household do not necessarily differ in their sex, age, productive capacity and/or personality profiles; that information is shared symmetrically between cooperative individuals; and that differences in the quantity and quality of land and non-land inputs use”
The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi (2018, methodology): “Following Owens, Hoddinott, and Kinsey (2003) and Peterman et al. (2011), we use the value of yield per hectare of various crops as the measure of farm productivity.3 Productivity value is calculated by multiplying the quantity of each crop produced per hectare by the farmgate or market price for…”
Gendered impacts of the 2007–2008 food price crisis: Evidence using panel data from rural Ethiopia (2013, background): “Recent work on productivity differences in Nigeria and Uganda (Peterman et al. 2010) finds that using gender of the household head as the gender disaggregator masks gender inequalities if one looks at finer levels of gender disaggregation, for example, at the plot level.”
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (2013, unknown): “Peterman et al. (2011) show that using headship as a proxy for gender differences within households may also lead to underestimation of gender differences in agricultural productivity.”
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Uganda (2015, methodology): “Using a 2003 cross section collected from 123 communities in 8 of Uganda’s 111 districts, (Peterman et al. 2011) estimate the size of the raw gender gap (the difference in mean value of crop production per acre between female and male farmers) for these areas to be 50%.”
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, unknown): “Peterman et al. (2011) X X 851 households with 3,625 plots interviewed in 2005 as identified using a portion of the sampling frame from the Ugandan National Household Survey.”
Explaining Gender Differentials in Agricultural Production in Nigeria (2013, methodology): “In this study, we find that women in the North produce 28 percent less than men after controlling for observed manager characteristics and factors of production—a result that is very similar to the Peterman et al (2011) who find a 32 percent difference.”
What determines gender inequality in household food security in Kenya? Application of exogenous switching treatment regression (2014, background): “…consumption and as chronic when a person is 1 For a comprehensive review of econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity and technology adoption in the developing world see Peterman et al. (2010; 2011). continuously unable to acquire sufficient food (Chung et al., 1997).”