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Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania

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Title Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania
 
Creator Gumucio, Tatiana
Kramer, Berber
Ragasa, Catherine
Pyburn, Rhiannon
Galie, Alessandra
Dejene Aredo, Samson
Jumba, Humphrey
Nimorme, Eva
Omondi, Immaculate A.
Sufian, Farha Deba
 
Subject agriculture
food security
climate change
gender
 
Description Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying seed-related value chains and country contexts in Africa south of the Sahara. The cases include chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania, tilapia seed production in Ghana, and marketing and trading of improved maize and sorghum seeds in Kenya. Applying a gender lens, we use qualitative methods to analyze women’s and men’s motivations to engage in seed businesses, the challenges they confront to start and succeed, and prospects for sustainability and continued success. We also use quantitative data to characterize the levels of empowerment of the entrepreneurs sampled. Results show that time flexibility and profitability of the business can be important considerations for women’s engagement in seed entrepreneurship, and the social normative context of the sector is also critical. Furthermore, outside support can be a key factor influencing women’s seed entrepreneurship, per the Kenya case.
 
Date 2021-12-22
2022-01-12T13:41:23Z
2022-01-12T13:41:23Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Gumucio T, Kramer B, Ragasa C, Pyburn R, Galie A, Dejene Aredo S, Jumba H, Nimorme E, Omondi I, Sufian FD. 2021. Gender and seed entrepreneurism: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. CCAFS Working Paper no. 412. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117469
 
Language en
 
Relation Working Paper
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 51 p.
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Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security