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024	8		_ahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.102264
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100	1		_910447 _aGebre, G.G.
245	1		_aGender differences in the adoption of agricultural technology : _bthe case of improved maize varieties in southern Ethiopia
260			_aUnited Kingom : _bElsevier, _c2019.
500			_aPeer review
500			_aOpen Access
520			_aThis study explores the role of gender-based decision-making in the adoption of improved maize varieties. The primary data were collected in 2018 from 560 farm households in Dawuro Zone, Ethiopia, and were comparatively analyzed across gender categories of households: male decision-making, female decision-making and joint decision-making, using a double-hurdle model. The results show that the intensity of improved maize varieties adopted on plots managed by male, female, and joint decision-making households are significantly different. This effect diminishes in the model when we take other factors into account. Using the gender of the heads of households and agricultural decision-maker, the current study did not find significant evidence of gender difference in the rate and intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties. The intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties is lower for female-headed households where decisions are made jointly by men and women, compared to the male-headed households where decisions are made jointly. As the economic status is a key driver of adoption of improved maize varieties, it is recommended that the policies and programs that aim at developing and disseminating quality maize seeds in southern Ethiopia should emphatically support economically less endowed but more gender egalitarian joint decision-making households, especially female-headed ones.
546			_aText in English
650		7	_2AGROVOC _91123 _aGender
650		7	_2AGROVOC _98770 _aDecision making
650		7	_aInnovation adoption _gAGROVOC _2 _91160
650		7	_aMaize _gAGROVOC _2 _91173
650		7	_aVarieties _gAGROVOC _2 _91303
651		7	_2AGROVOC _92025 _aEthiopia
700	0		_aHiroshi Isoda _910448
700	1		_aRahut, D.B. _8INT3364 _9942 _gSocioeconomics Program
700	0		_aYuichiro Amekawa _910449
700	0		_aHisako Nomura _910450
773	0		_tWomen's Studies International Forum _gv. 76, art. 102264 _dUnited Kingom : Elsevier, 2019 _x0277-5395
856	4		_yOpen Access through DSpace _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/20227
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