Promoting smallholder agriculture is a crucial component of any strategy towards agricultural development in Africa. Using plot-level data, OLS and decomposition techniques, this research project investigates (1) gender differences in small-scale agricultural productivity, and (2) how gender productivity gap varies spatially in Cameroon. In addition to the household headship as well as de jure and de factor headships, we use the plot holder and plot manager as the gender indicators in order to investigate how the gender variable of choice affects the estimation of the gender gap. The research project uses data set from a multi-crop survey of smallholder household farmers undertaken by the Cameroonian Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) in 2009. The sample consists of 1,200 households and 3,076 plots in 125 villages across the three major agro-ecological regions.
Project leader: Ousmanou Njikam
Project researchers: Paloma Coralie Mbengono | Therese ELOMO ZOGO | Phalone Ingride ABOSSOLO DOUMA | François Colin NKOA | OKOUDA Barnabe
Scientific mentors: Abdelkrim Araar
Policy outreach mentors: Christian Arnault Emini
No journal publications.
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| Target women farmers’ structural disadvantages to improve rural productivity and food security in Cameroon | 2021-07-06 | 2.90MB | 0 | 0 |
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| Exploring the Spatial Gender Gap in Smallholder Agricultural Productivity in Cameroon | 2020-12-22 | 1.74MB | 0 | 0 |
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| The Gender Gap in Smallholder Agricultural Productivity: The Case of Cameroon | 2019-09-12 | 889.31kB | 0 | 0 |
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