Two Heads are Better Than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire: Brief
This is a brief with a summary of the main findings from this research
Abstract
One potential way to promote investment and improve the efficiency of household farm production is to empower women as co-managers and facilitate the coordination of production decisions within the family. To test this approach, we worked together with the Ivorian rubber professional association APROMAC to offer farmers subsidized rubber seedlings combined with either individual training or one that included their spouses. Farmers that received the individual training experienced a decrease in harvest and yields as labour was re-routed to intensive upfront planting and in care activities for young, non-producing rubber seedlings. However, the wives’ participation in the couples’ training group allowed households to have higher levels of investment and to cushion this drop in production, allowing those households to maintain pre-program production levels.
This is an output of the Africa Gender Innovation Lab programme
Citation
Donald, Aletheia Amalia; Goldstein, Markus P.; Rouanet, Lea Marie. Two Heads are Better Than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (English). Gender Innovation Lab Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099701306072222675/IDU0274c6fde0eb990401e0b82d04f10a8d79f8d
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Two Heads are Better Than One : Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire: Brief