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Gender appropriateness of field days in knowledge generation and adoption of push-pull technology in eastern Africa

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  • Murage, A.W.
  • Pittchar, J.O.
  • Midega, C.A.O.
  • Onyango, C.O.
  • Pickett, J.A.
  • Khan, Z.R.

Abstract

Women are taking over the Agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa and policies that enhance their empowerment in farming would have positive gains in enhancing food security and transforming lives. Adoption studies have identified gender as one of the factors that determine technology uptake, and this has been linked to women’s access to farming information or lack of it. Technology scaling up systems should utilize pathways that are compatible with the needs of rural women who have to juggle farming with other household chores. Unfortunately, there has been limited effort to evaluate the suitability of the information pathways used to specific gender. This study evaluates the appropriateness of field days with respect to gender of the participants. A total of 2,615 participants were interviewed out of 6,221 who attended field days in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The determinants of level knowledge level gained and willingness to adopt was evaluated using an ordered probit and logit model. Our findings shows that majority of the participants were women (51.3%), middle aged (40-45 years) and with primary level education (54.1% women). The model results shows that women farmers understood more about push-pull (coefficient of ordered probit = -0.112) and were more willing to adopt push-pull (coefficient of logit = -0.367). Age, education, being a push-pull farmer, perception of Striga severity and having a mobile phone were also significant. Our findings demonstrate that field days are appropriate for training farmers especially women who are often disadvantaged in information access.

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  • Murage, A.W. & Pittchar, J.O. & Midega, C.A.O. & Onyango, C.O. & Pickett, J.A. & Khan, Z.R., 2016. "Gender appropriateness of field days in knowledge generation and adoption of push-pull technology in eastern Africa," 2016 Fifth International Conference, September 23-26, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 246277, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaae16:246277
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.246277
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