Is Scale-Appropriate Farm Mechanization Gendered? Learning from the Nepal Hills
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Leibniz Universität Hannover | en |
| cg.contributor.crp | Agriculture for Nutrition and Health | |
| cg.contributor.crp | Gender | |
| cg.contributor.donor | United States Agency for International Development | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | CGIAR Trust Fund | en |
| cg.contributor.initiative | Gender Equality | |
| cg.coverage.country | Nepal | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | NP | |
| cg.coverage.region | Southern Asia | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Hom Nath Gartaula: 0000-0002-9851-6421 | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Gokul P. Paudel: 0000-0002-5277-6287 | |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6978-2_7 | en |
| cg.isbn | 978-981-19-6978-2 | en |
| cg.issn | 2730-6771 | en |
| cg.issn | 2730-678X | en |
| cg.place | Singapore | en |
| cg.subject.actionArea | Resilient Agrifood Systems | |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Gender equality, youth and social inclusion | |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs | |
| cg.subject.impactPlatform | Gender | |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 1 - No poverty | en |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 2 - Zero hunger | en |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 5 - Gender equality | en |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities | en |
| cg.volume | In Women Farmers: Unheard Being Heard | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Gartaula, Hom Nath | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Singh, Madhulika | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Paudel, Gokul Prasad | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-17T08:40:50Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-17T08:40:50Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131576 | |
| dc.title | Is Scale-Appropriate Farm Mechanization Gendered? Learning from the Nepal Hills | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Scale-appropriate farm mechanization could be an important pathway to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) of attaining gender equality (SDG5) in agriculture. Gender and farm mechanization is getting attention in the academic and public policy domain as a solution to labor scarcity in the smallholder farming systems, which in recent years, is facing challenges of labor shortage due to male labor outmigration. Taking a case study from a maize-based farming system in Nepal hill, this paper illustrates how the promotion of scale-appropriate farm mechanization can be gendered. Using the household survey data collected from the mid-hills of Nepal from 179 mini-tiller adopter farmers, this paper reports that only 4% of the owners were women, and only 1% of women were involved in mini-tiller operations. We find that mini-tiller adopting male and female household head’s maize productivity, profitability, and production costs are similar. The paper concludes by identifying social perception against women, rugged topography, women’s low level of knowledge in operating machines, spare parts maintenance, and added responsibilities resulting in women’s lower participation in mini-tiller adoption decisions. This chapter suggests measures like awareness raising, increasing access, and training built around tailoring women’s needs to reduce the gender gap in farm mechanization. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Limited Access | |
| dcterms.audience | CGIAR | en |
| dcterms.audience | Policy Makers | en |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | en |
| dcterms.available | 2023-06-12 | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Gartaula, Hom N., Singh, Madhulika and Paudel, Gokul P. Is Scale-Appropriate Farm Mechanization Gendered? Learning from the Nepal Hills. In Women Farmers: Unheard Being Heard, pp. 97-111. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. | en |
| dcterms.extent | 97-111 | en |
| dcterms.isPartOf | Women Farmers: Unheard Being Heard. Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2023-06-12 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | Copyrighted; all rights reserved | |
| dcterms.publisher | Springer | en |
| dcterms.subject | mechanization | en |
| dcterms.subject | gender | en |
| dcterms.subject | equality | en |
| dcterms.subject | labour | en |
| dcterms.type | Book Chapter |
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