Decomposition of Gender Differentials in Agricultural Productivity: The Case Aira District in West Wollega Zone Oromia National Regional State Ethiopia

Bacha Gebissa

doi:10.7176/jaas/60-01

Abstract

The research is financed by Ministry of Education of Ethiopia in general and Wollega University particularly Abstract This study focused on decomposion of gender differential on agricultural productivity. The agricultural productivity difference between male and female headed households was about 57.18% in the study area. On the other hand, if female headed households had equal access to the inputs as male headed households, gross value of the output would be higher by 18.82% for female headed households. This may suggest that female headed households would have been more productive than male headed households if they had equal access to inputs as male headed households. Thus accessing female headed households to inputs that increase the productivity of land, labour utilization, usage of herbicide; and introducing technologies that reduce the time and energy of women is essential to improve the agricultural productivity of women and the society as a whole. Keywords: Aira, Decomposition Model, Gender, West Wollega DOI : 10.7176/JAAS/60-01 Publication date: January 31 st 2020

Highlights

Gender differences in agricultural productivity in developing countries are observed mainly in the access to and use of agricultural inputs, tenure security, and related investments in land and improved technologies, market and credit access, human and physical capital, and informal and institutional constraints
The measurement of differences in agricultural productivity between men and women is fraught with conceptual and methodological difficulties. These arise from the difficulty of defining appropriate measures of productivity in different farming systems, omission of individual characteristics in attempts to measure productivity differences by sex, and the lack of clarity regarding the measurement of sex and gender differences
This method allows distinguishing the productivity difference that can be explained by differences in household endowments and differences in the efficiency of these endowments

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Introduction

Gender differences in agricultural productivity in developing countries are observed mainly in the access to and use of agricultural inputs, tenure security, and related investments in land and improved technologies, market and credit access, human and physical capital, and informal and institutional constraints. These factors explain the difference in agricultural productivity between male-managed plots and female-managed plots (Olakojo, 2017). It is essential to study the productivity of female headed households in agricultural sector as compared with their male counterparts in the area where gender dis-aggregated information in this aspect is missing

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