Gendered activities: Men farm, women trade, or is it less clear-cut?

ABSTRACT: The study explores gender participation in agricultural value chains, showing how roles are differentiated across genders and regions. The study fills an important gap in the literature which takes gender disparities as uniform and ignores subnational differences in farming and trading activities, with a focus on Africa's most populous country, Nigeria. We estimated gender differences in participation, and compared welfare outcomes, using a combination of logit regression models, and instrumental variable estimation, that control for unobserved factors in the model. Household consumption expenditure is used as a proxy for welfare in the data, the most recent General Household Survey, covering more than 32,000 individuals. We find that men dominate farming, while women tend to dominate reta

SUBMITTER: Olabisi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12844507 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature