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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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Title Can a cash crop be a women’s crop?: Examining gender norms, relations and equity around lentil commercialization in Ethiopia
 
Creator Nomunume Baada, Jemima
Najjar, Dina
Seifu, Mahelet Hailemariam
 
Subject policies
ethiopia
sub-saharan africa
gender norms and relations
lentil commercialization
men's crops and women's crops
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2023-09-01T18:03:57Z
2023-09-01T18:03:57Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier 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
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Scientific African