Bridging gender gaps through innovations in agricultural value chains in Africa



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Type: 
conference paper
Author(s): 
Nijirani G.
Ngigi M.
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This paper examines innovations for bridging gender gaps in agricultural value chains in Africa. It focuses on innovative platforms for addressing gender gaps, considering women contribute up to 40 percent of labor in agricultural production. Women remain at the bottom of value chains and face gender-specific constraints attributable to gender and social norms, discriminatory beliefs and practices, gender-blind designs and delivery of technologies and innovations which impede women s participation in value chains. Consequently, women are unable to adjust to challenges and opportunities of technological progress, commercial orientation, and global integration

Publication year: 
2018
Keywords: 
Gender gaps
gender-sensitive innovations
agricultural value chains
Africa