Can a cash crop be a women’s crop?: Examining gender norms, relations and equity around lentil commercialization in Ethiopia
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Can a cash crop be a women’s crop?: Examining gender norms, relations and equity around lentil commercialization in Ethiopia
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Nomunume Baada, Jemima
Najjar, Dina Seifu, Mahelet Hailemariam |
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policies
ethiopia sub-saharan africa gender norms and relations lentil commercialization men's crops and women's crops |
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The benefits of subsistence-crop commercialization may depend on gender norms and relations. In sub-Saharan Africa, crop commercialization has been shown to often have unequal outcomes for women and men due to pre-existing social hierarchies and norms around farm roles, asset ownership, control over crops and income, and local farming practices. Using qualitative methods, this article examines gender norms and relations around lentil commercialization in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, to understand whether the benefits of market-orientated lentil production accrue to women and men farmers equitably. The findings reveal that despite naming lentils a women’s crop, women remain marginalized from the sale and use of lentil. The study also found that lentil commercialization is often accompanied by labour commercialization, which has exclusionary effects on farmers of low socioeconomic status and unmarried women. Some policy recommendations are suggested based on these findings. |
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2023-09-01T18:03:57Z
2023-09-01T18:03:57Z |
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Journal Article
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Jemima Nomunume Baada, Dina Najjar, Mahelet Hailemariam Seifu. (17/8/2023). Can a cash crop be a women’s crop: Examining gender norms, relations and equity around lentil commercialization in Ethiopia. Scientific African, 21.
2468-2276 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131725 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01862 |
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en
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CC-BY-4.0
Open Access |
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application/pdf
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Elsevier
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Scientific African
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