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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.08.009
	The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda
	Fisher M.; Carr E.R.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	35
英文摘要	Gender-disaggregated, household survey data for Uganda are used to examine how gendered roles and responsibilities influence adoption of drought-tolerant (DT) maize, a new technology that can help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa adapt to drought risk. Multinomial logit (MNL) regression results indicate that, compared to men farmers, women farmers have much lower adoption of DT maize, mainly due to differences in resource access, notably land, agricultural information, and credit. Differentiation of women and men farmers by various characteristics reveals that whether a male farmer was younger or older, or poor or non-poor has no significant influence on DT maize adoption; but important differences among different categories of women farmers are identified. For example, the farmer group found least likely to adopt DT maize is young, poor women household heads. MNL results also show that wives strongly influence adoption of DT maize on plots controlled by their husbands. We discuss the implications of study findings for the development of well-targeted and socially-inclusive adaptation policies. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation; Agriculture; Drought; Gender; Sub-Saharan Africa; Technology adoption
学科领域	agricultural policy; agricultural technology; drought resistance; farmers attitude; gender role; household survey; innovation; maize; risk assessment; seed; smallholder; technology adoption; Uganda; Zea mays
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agricultural policy; agricultural technology; drought resistance; farmers attitude; gender role; household survey; innovation; maize; risk assessment; seed; smallholder; technology adoption; Uganda; Zea mays
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117463
作者单位	International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines; Humanitarian Response and Development Lab, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fisher M.,Carr E.R.. The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda[J],2015,35.
APA	Fisher M.,&Carr E.R..(2015).The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda.Global Environmental Change,35.
MLA	Fisher M.,et al."The influence of gendered roles and responsibilities on the adoption of technologies that mitigate drought risk: The case of drought-tolerant maize seed in eastern Uganda".Global Environmental Change 35(2015).