Food Security, Productivity, and Gender Inequality - The Oxford Topic of Food, Politics, and Society - page 281

Table 11.1 Continued

Differences
attributable
to constraints
faced by women
farmers

Productivity/
efficiency
differences Country Author and Year Sample Crop(s)

Kenya (Subnational) Saito et al (1994) 750 Heads of

households with
plot specific
information.
Regression for
494 plots. Three
districts covered in
1989/90.

Maize, beans
and cowpeas

Men's mean
gross value
of output per
hectare is 8.4%
higher than that
of women. The
gender dummy
is statistically
insignificant.

Gender
differences in
productivity are
attributable to
gender difference
in input use.

Kenya (Western) Moock (1976) 152 farmers Maize Yields on

female plots are
lower, but the
difference is
not statistically
significant.
Women would
produce 6.6%
more output
than men,
everything else
being equal.

Productivity
differences due
to lower inputs
by women, in
particular of
chemical fertilizer.

Kenya (Western) Alene et al. (2008) 800 heads of

households

Maize FHHs obtain

yields that are
23% lower than
those of MHHs
(not indicated
whether the
difference is
statistically
significant).

Yield differences
largely due to
women's lower
access to land
and education.
After controlling
for these
factors, women
and men are
equally efficient,
technically and
allocatively.

Kenya (Western) Ongaro (1990) 257 smallholder

farmers

Maize Women obtain

about 16% lower
yields than male
farmers.

Women use
substantially
lower amounts of
fertilizer.

Kenya Bindlish &

Evenson (1993)

675 farm heads
of households in
7 representative
districts

All farm output Dummy for
gender of head is
not statistically
significant.

No information

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