Gender, control, and crop choice in northern Mozambique
Author | : de Brauw, Alan |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 28 |
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Download or read book Gender, control, and crop choice in northern Mozambique written by de Brauw, Alan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies womens empowerment in northern Mozambique as it relates to agriculture, considering in particular the factors that lead to womens managing the plots that they nominally control. Women control about 30 percent of the plots in the data but manage only about 70 percent of those plots. Using a unique panel dataset, the study finds that women are more likely to manage plots when households have historically had access to off-farm labor, typically completed by men.