Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique
Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique
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10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.036
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
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6.9
通讯作者：
Zhu, Siyao
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作者：
Kondylis, Florence;Mueller, Valerie;Zhu, Siyao
农业创新对于满足非洲不断增长的人口的粮食需求至关重要。提高产量的一个途径可能是提高女性农民的生产力。在许多情况下，已婚妇女耕种的土地与其他家庭成员的土地分开。它们面临着不同的生产力挑战，如投入不足、产权薄弱和时间限制。长期以来，人们一直认为，传统上以男性为主的推广服务也可能导致采用新农业技术方面的性别偏见。如果这是真的，让妇女担任推广职位可能有助于其他妇女克服因获得农业推广服务的机会不平等或接触不适当的信息而造成的障碍。为了更好地了解性别在传播可持续土地管理技术中的作用，本研究采用了在莫桑比克200个社区进行的随机政策实验。我们研究了培训可持续土地管理技术的女信使对其他女农民的可持续土地管理做法的认识、知识和采用的影响。2010年，随机挑选了一些社区，让一名女信使接受可持续土地管理方面的培训，并鼓励她向其他妇女传授相关技术。利用在实验区收集的小组调查数据，我们发现，2012年妇女对坑栽耕作技术的认识提高了9个百分点，2013年在有女性信使的社区采用该技术的比例提高了5个百分点。(C)2015爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Agricultural innovation is essential to meet the food requirements of Africa's growing population. One pathway to increasing yields may be to enhance female farmer productivity. In many settings, married women cultivate plots separated from those of other family members. They face different challenges to productivity, such as deficiencies in inputs, weak property rights, and time constraints. It has long been argued that traditionally male-dominated extension services may also contribute to a gender bias in adoption of new agricultural techniques. If this is true, placing women in extension positions may help other women overcome barriers to adoption posed by inequitable access to agricultural extension services or exposure to inapt information. To better understand the role of gender in the dissemination of sustainable land management (SLM) techniques, this study uses a randomized policy experiment conducted in 200 communities in Mozambique. We examine the impact of training female messengers of SLM techniques on the awareness, knowledge, and adoption of SLM practices by other female farmers. Communities were randomly selected in 2010 to have a female messenger trained in SLM who was encouraged to teach other women the techniques. Using data from panel surveys collected in the experimental areas, we find women's awareness of pit planting farming techniques increased by 9 percentage points in 2012 and adoption of the technology by 5 percentage points in 2013 in communities with female messengers. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.