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Outcomes of women’s participation in market-oriented commodity development:
Evidence from IPMS
Gender and Market Oriented Agriculture (AgriGender 2011) WorkshopAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
31st January–2nd February 2011
Ranjitha Puskur and Lemlem Aregu
IPMS strategies for enhancing women’s participation in value chain development • setting targets for women’s participation in
project activities – technical interventions to improve productivity
and production– developing input supply systems– access to inputs and services to produce
marketable commodities– capacity building and knowledge sharing activities
• focus on commodities which have mainly been women’s enterprises traditionally like poultry, small ruminants, dairy and vegetables
Methodology• Assess immediate socio-economic
outcomes for women farmers who have participated in IPMS interventions
• Poultry, Small Ruminants, Dairy, Feed and forage, Apiculture, Fruits and Vegetables
• Survey of 586 sample women farmers spread over the 10 PLWs
Profile of participating women farmers
• average age - 35 and 38 • a large majority married• most of the women could not read and write• ones who went to school seem to have opted for
poultry, dairy, apiculture and vegetables• women from households with larger landholding
entered fruit cultivation and forage production where irrigation was available
• those with larger landholdings in drier areas took up small ruminant rearing
• households with smaller landholdings chose poultry
Decision making on technology use
Most decisions to use introduced technology taken by women or jointly
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Outcomes
Impacts Poultry
Sheep and
Goats Dairy Feed HoneyFruits VegIncrease in production and market supply 60 66 100 53 54 21 97
Increase in number being reared/area under production 76 49 31 78 18 42Increase in farm input use 62 21 44 45
Better quality of products 49 51 52 49 8 15 90
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Outcomes
Poultry
Sheep and
Goats Dairy Feed Honey Fruits Veg
Increased income 97 84 97 69 71 41 85Better nutrition/more food 62 59 84 25 55 37 72
More saving 11 43 64 19 32 22 67New asset acquisition 50 29 66 19 63 37Children sent to school 50 21 67 37 20 62
Better health 21 29 58 3 15 100
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Control of new assets
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
WorkloadsProportion of Households reporting (%)
Training outcomes
Poultry
Small ruminants
DairyFe
ed
Apicultu
reFru
its
Vegetables
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
new linkages created due to training/visitscontinue knowledge sharingtechnical skills developedutilization of skillsgroup collaboration
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Complementary support provided
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Who is selling?Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Sales..
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Changes in consumption and sales
Eggs con-
sumed
Eggs sold0
100
200
300
400
500
Chickens sold0
50
100
150
03060
Milk con-
sumed
Milk sold0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Honey consumed
Honey sold0
20406080
100120
Feed used Feed sold0
20406080
100120140160
Per Household per annum annually – Before and After
Changes in consumption and sales..
Vegetables consumed
Vegatables sold
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
Control of income from sales
Proportion of Households reporting (%)
Challenges• small scale operations that might not be generating
enough income to catapult these households out of poverty
• ensuring adequate volume of good quality products• enhancing their bargaining power through collective
action• enhance sustainably access to markets• institutional arrangements that can supply quality inputs
and services on a consistent basis to rural households • access to capital through microfinance or Self Help Group
(SHG) like savings and credit arrangements• mainstreaming gender effectively in the plans, programs
and activities of the Public sector organizations – especially extension services
• M&E and generating evidence
Thank you!