Gender impacts on adoption of new technologies: the case of improved groundnut varieties in Uganda
2017
Tanellari, Eftila | Kostandini, Genti | Bonabana-Wabbi, Jackline | Murray, Anthony
Peanuts are a key crop in Uganda and are grown by both male and female farmers, although thereis a strong inclination for resource-use decisions to be performed by specific genders. This paperidentifies opportunities and participation by women and men in the decision to adopt improvedpeanut varieties in Uganda using a unique dataset from 20 leading peanut-growing districts in thecountry. The results indicate that there are gender differences in adopting improved varieties ofpeanuts. In addition, women in female-headed households are less likely to adopt improvedvarieties compared to women and men in male-headed households, suggesting that they may haveless access to resources than women in male-headed households. The gender of the household headhas implications for the adoption of improved technologies by women. Moreover, this imbalance inresource access and income-improving decision-making ability by women may have implicationsfor the adoption of other technologies that could improve household welfare.
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