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Uneven ground? Intersectional gender inequalities in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania

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Title Uneven ground? Intersectional gender inequalities in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania
 
Creator Liani, M.L.
Cole, S.M.
Mwakanyamale. D.F.
Baumung, L.
Saleh, N.
Webber, A.
Tufan H.A.
Kapinga, R.
 
Subject cassava
entrepreneurship
gender
intersectionality
mixed methods
seed systems
tanzania
 
Description Open Access Journal
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is an important crop in Africa, especially to women who rely on it as a household staple food and source of income. In Tanzania, a recent move toward commercializing the cassava seed system resulted in significantly fewer women than men farmers, known as Cassava Seed Entrepreneurs (CSEs), producing improved seed for sale to fellow farmers. To document the barriers and constraints that create gender inequalities in the seed system to better understand women’s low representation and experiences in commercialized cassava seed production, we carried out a mixed-methods study in the Southern, Eastern, and Lake Zones of Tanzania in 2021. The quantitative analysis found differences in key individual and household characteristics between CSEs and farmers who aspired to be but did not participate as CSEs (or A-CSEs) as well as between women CSEs and women A-CSEs. After running a logistic regression, results indicated that sex of the farmer (being male) was a statistically significant predictor of participating as a CSE (p 
 
Date 2023
2023-10-16T09:44:04Z
2023-10-16T09:44:04Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Liani, M.L., Cole, S.M., Mwakanyamale, D.F., Baumung, L., Saleh, N., Webber, A., ... & Kapinga, R. (2023). Uneven ground? Intersectional gender inequalities in the commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7: 1155769, 1-15.
2571-581X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132268
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1155769
SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1-15
application/pdf
 
Source Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems