Gender relations and women's empowerment in small-scale irrigated forage production in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Small-scale cultivation and irrigation of planted forages can increase the availability of good-quality animal feed in smallholder farms. However, low adoption rates of improved forage technologies in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa have been observed and are partly attributed to limited understanding of gender dynamics in the context of production and utilization of planted forages. The introduction of small-scale cultivation and irrigation of planted forages is likely to interlink gender relations in the mixed crop-livestock farming system given the differences in contributions, benefits and challenges men and women farmers face. Efforts to transform livestock systems through improving adoption, scaling, and sustainability forage interventions can benefit from empirical evidence on gend

SUBMITTER: Omondi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11666051 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature