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Promoting gender-equitable agricultural value chains:
Issues, opportunities, and next steps
IFPRI Seminar, November 22, 2014“Beyond Gender Myths:
Closing the Knowledge Gap in Agriculture and Food Security”
Deborah Rubin and Cristina Manfre
Cultural Practice, LLC
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Myths?
• Value Chain Analysis and development didn’t need to address gender issues
• Women involved only as producers
• “Gender in Value Chains” only matters in value chains where women already have high participation (e.g., horticulture)
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The business caseImproving women’s incentives to increase productivity (& profitability)Reducing discrimination to improve efficiencyBuilding on new market opportunitiesIdentifying niche markets
The social justice caseInternational conventions
Fair business practicesNational laws include social and gender equity
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• Gender equality is good for economic growth
• Gender inequalities are costly to economic development
• Competitive and gender equitable VC programs can enhance poverty reduction
The Development Case:Achieving the Win-Win
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1. Value chains are embedded in a social context and its existing social relations
• The household and market interact
• Social institutions reflect social norms
• Legal frameworks embody social beliefs
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2. Gendered factors shape determinants of value chain participation
• Assets as well as income-Extent-Sequence
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3. Understanding gender dimensions of benefits and/or governance systems
•Women often have participation that garners few or no benefits
•Men often have control or ownership of resources and that provide benefits without participation
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4. Value Chains change gender roles and relations• New technologies, upgrading shifts labor practices
• Crop production, sales changes control over resources
• Formalizing transactions affects intrahousehold financial management
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What’s next?
Developing value chains that support nutritional outcomes
• A4NH• Harvest Plus
Value chains for climate-smart agriculture
Strengthening the asset base for improving women’s participation in agricultural value chains
• IFPRI/ILRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project