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Is there such a thing as sustainable agricultural intensification in smallholder-based farming in sub-Saharan Africa? Understanding yield differences in relation to gender in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia
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- Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Human Geography,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Djurfeldt, Göran (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Human Geography,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Hillbom, Ellen (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- Isinika, Aida C. (author)
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
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- Joshua, Miriam Dalitso Kalanda (author)
- University of Malawi
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- Kaleng’a, Wisdom Chilwizhi (author)
- University of Zambia
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- Kalindi, Audrey (author)
- University of Zambia
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- Msuya, Elibariki (author)
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
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- Mulwafu, Wapulumuka (author)
- University of Malawi
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- Wamulume, Mukata (author)
- University of Zambia
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- 2019-04-02
- 2019
- English 14 s.
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In: Development Studies Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2166-5095. ; 6:1, s. 62-75
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Abstract
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- Smallholder-based, sustainable, agricultural intensification is increasingly put forth as a development pathway that is necessary to improve farmer's livelihoods, enhance productivity and engender a surplus that can be used to feed growing urban areas across sub-Saharan Africa. The following article examines trends in yields for Africa's largest staple crop – maize – among smallholder farmers in six regions in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, using longitudinal quantitative data collected in 2008, 2013 and 2017 in combination with qualitative data from nine villages. Substantial increases in yields are found only in Zambia, while yields are largely stagnant in Malawi and Tanzania. In the case of Zambia, however, there is a persistent gender-based yield gap. We use the qualitative data to explain this gap and find that gender-based differences in yields need to be understood in relation to local production systems, as well as the varied positionality of women, where the biases facing women who head their own households are different than for women living in male headed households. In policy terms, technologies that can promote intensification are different depending on these factors, even within the local context of particular farming systems.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography -- Economic Geography (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Annan lantbruksvetenskap -- Övrig annan lantbruksvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Other Agricultural Sciences -- Other Agricultural Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- agriculture
- gender
- smallholders
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- art (subject category)
- ref (subject category)
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