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This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is often considered one of the major tools of agribusiness development: it broadly includes those arrangements under which producers commit to provide a pre-defined quantity of...
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Most cocoa is grown by smallholder farmers whose livelihoods depend largely on the income from cocoa. Today, cocoa production must increasingly comply with social and environmental requirements as the worldwide demand for sustainably produced cocoa is growing steadily. There is, however,...
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This report examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from … bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens. The report makes specific recommendations to address gender … of poverty reduction and economic growth, in line with Kenya's Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment …
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We analyze the gender price gap (GPG) in Central Kenyan vegetable markets. Exploiting differences in the combination of the gender of the household head, the person controlling production, and the seller, we control for other gender related influences. We cannot identify a significant GPG for...
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