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Estimating and Decomposing Groundnut Gender Yield Gap: Evidence from Rural Farming Households in Northern Nigeria

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11635/
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218923
doi:10.3390/su12218923
 
Title Estimating and Decomposing Groundnut Gender Yield Gap: Evidence from Rural Farming Households in Northern Nigeria
 
Creator Muricho, G
Lokossou, J
Affognon, H
Ahmed, B
Desmae, H
Ajeigbe, H
Vabi, M B
Yila, J
Akpo, E
Ojiewo, C
 
Subject Nigeria
Groundnut
Gender Research
 
Description Poverty among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa has been associated with low
agricultural productivity emanating from gender yield gaps among other factors. Using data collected
from smallholder groundnut producers in Nigeria, we analyzed the gender yield gap by applying the
exogenous switching regression (ESR) model and Oaxaca–Blinder (OB) decomposition framework.
Results from the two complementary approaches showed a significant gender yield gap in favor of
male headed households (MHHs). The main and significant source of the gap was differences in
resources/endowments. We found that involving female headed households (FHHs) in prerequisite
yield augmenting activities like technology validation trials, testing, and demonstrations is critical in
closing the existing yield gap.
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Date 2020-10
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11635/1/sustainability-12-08923.pdf
Muricho, G and Lokossou, J and Affognon, H and Ahmed, B and Desmae, H and Ajeigbe, H and Vabi, M B and Yila, J and Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C (2020) Estimating and Decomposing Groundnut Gender Yield Gap: Evidence from Rural Farming Households in Northern Nigeria. Sustainability (TSI), 12 (21). pp. 1-20. ISSN 2071-1050