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Can agricultural subsidies reduce gendered productivity gaps? Panel data evidence from Zambia (Record no. 62557)

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International Standard Serial Number 1467-7679 (Online)
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Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12483
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Personal name Ngoma, H.
Field link and sequence number 001712572
Miscellaneous information Socioeconomics Program
-- Sustainable Agrifood Systems
9 (RLIN) 15771
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Title Can agricultural subsidies reduce gendered productivity gaps? Panel data evidence from Zambia
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Wiley,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021.
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General note Peer review
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Summary, etc. Motivation. Farmer input support programmes (FISPs) have been implemented in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) since the 1970s in order to improve agricultural productivity and production. Whether FISPs are effective is much debated in the region. This article assesses whether FISPs can reduce gendered productivity gaps in agriculture, which in theory they should, by improving access to productive inputs for all farmers. Purpose. Because FISPs improve access to productive inputs for women as well as men, this article asks whether subsidy programmes can reduce the gendered productivity gaps in agriculture. We assess the direct impacts of accessing FISP on maize productivity and whether these impacts are heterogeneous between women‐ and men‐managed plots. Approach and methods. We combine the control function and the correlated random approaches to control for the endogeneity of access to FISPs and unobserved heterogeneity, and use the two‐wave panel of the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Survey data collected in 2012 and 2015 in Zambia. The analysis is done at the level of farm plots. Findings. Access to FISPs does not disproportionately raise maize productivity for women‐managed plots. This implies that a FISP alone is insufficient to address the gendered productivity gaps in agriculture. On average, FISPs were associated with average yield gains between 35 and 105 kg/ha in our sample, with larger gains for men‐managed subsamples. However, the use of fertilizers at these low rates of return is unlikely to be profitable for smallholder farmers. Policy implications. Given that FISPs are likely to remain an important part of agricultural development policies in the region, there are reasons to believe they may have a role to play in reducing gendered gaps. However, reducing gendered productivity gaps in agriculture requires other non‐input factors that constrain women’s access to productive resources such as insecure land tenure and factors that limit the responsiveness of soils to fertilizer use among smallholder farmers to be addressed concomitantly.
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Language note Text in English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agriculture
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
Source of heading or term
9 (RLIN) 1007
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 6895
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Subsidies
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Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1123
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Gender
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1763
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Smallholders
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 4309
Geographic name Zambia
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 15772
Personal name Machina, H.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 15773
Personal name Kuteya, A.N.
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Place, publisher, and date of publication United Kingdom : Wiley, 2021.
Related parts v. 39, no. 2, p. 303-323
Title Development Policy Review
International Standard Serial Number 1467-7679
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