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Browsing by Author "Doss, C. R."

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  • How does gender affect the adoption of agricultural innovations? The case of improved maize technology in Ghana
    Doss, C. R.; Morris, M. L. (Elsevier Science B.V, 2001)
    Why do men and women adopt agricultural technologies at different rates? Evidence from Ghana suggests that gender-linked differences in the adoption of modern maize varieties and chemical fertilizer result from gender-linked differences and access to complementary inputs. This finding has important policy implications, because it suggests that ensuring more widespread and equitable adoption of improved technologies may not require changes in the research system, but rather introduction of measures that ensure better access for women to complementary inputs, especially land, labor and extension services. --Elsevier/Author's abstract
  • Men's crops? Women's crops? The gender patterns of cropping in Ghana
    Doss, C. R. (Elsevier, 2002)
    This paper identifies cultural distinctions between men's crops and women's crops as found in the literature on agriculture in West Africa. The study was based on a nationally survey from Ghana used to examine if indeed there are women's and men's crops. The article defines farmers in three ways: the household head, plot holder, and the person who keeps the revenue from the plot. The study concludes that there are no major crops defined as men's crops and no crops are grown exclusively by women either. Women are involved in sales of all major products in Ghana.
  • Twenty-five years of research on women farmers in Africa: Lessons and implications for agricultural research institutions
    Doss, C. R. (El Batan, México: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 1999)
    In this paper, the author uses existing literature to examine the causes of lacking technology adoption in the area of improved Maize among women farmers in Africa. Studies ultimately indicate that households and gender roles are extremely complex and varied across Africa, and cannot be simplified or reduced. However it is apparent that lack of access to inputs such as labor and land, as well as differences in priorities of outputs, cause reluctance among women farmers to adopt new technologies. Technologies may also alter the dynamics of household decision making and bargaining power.