POLICY BRIEF - Gendered Analysis of Households’ Uptake of Agricultural Technology,

This study addresses two specific objectives: (a) it examines gender differences in households’ use of farm-level technology (herbicide, pesticide, and inorganic fertilizer) and (b) it 2 Policy Brief No.830 assesses the impact of the uptake of agricultural technology on farm production and food consumption with particular attention to the gender of the household head. [...] The specific objectives, therefore, are to (a) determine the gender differences in households’ use of farm-level technology (herbicide, pesticide, and inorganic fertilizer) and (b) examine the impact of the uptake of agricultural technology on farm production and food consumption with particular attention to the gender of the household head. [...] 6 Policy Brief No.830 The second channel of the effect of agricultural technology uptake is dependent on the extent to which households sell their produce and their decision about the use of the additional income from market surplus for increased food production. [...] We rely on the latest wave of the survey to reduce measurement errors that could arise from changes in the gender of the household head status that are evident across different waves of the data. [...] It is important to note that in the context of this study, we focused on households that are located in rural areas where the main activity of the adults in the household is in the agricultural sector.