Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Development
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierSophie Theis: 0000-0003-4277-7080
cg.creator.identifierTimothy Joseph Krupnik: 0000-0001-6973-0106
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number9
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorTheis, Sophie
dc.contributor.authorSultana, Nasrin
dc.contributor.authorKrupnik, Timothy J.
dc.contributor.authorInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
dc.contributor.authorInternational Rice Research Institute
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:04:36Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:04:36Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517
dc.titleOvercoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladeshen
dcterms.abstractCustom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia. We studied the gendered differences in women’s and men’s involvement in emerging markets for reaper-harvester machinery services in the Feed the Future Zone in Bangladesh. We find that women benefit from managing and sometimes owning machinery services, as well as from the direct and indirect consequences of hiring such services to harvest their crops. However, a number of technical, economic, and cultural barriers constrain women’s full participation in these benefits. The brief provides suggestions for initiatives promoting rural machinery services to more fully engage women, as business owners and users of machinery, to expand the benefits of these markets, with relevance for South Asia and other farming geographies dominated by smallholders.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTheis, Sophie; Sultana, Nasrin; and Krupnik, Timothy J. 2018. Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh. GCAN Project Note 8. CSISA Research Note 9. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517en
dcterms.extent6 pages
dcterms.isPartOfCSISA Research Noteen
dcterms.issued2018-03-28
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/132358
dcterms.subjectparticipationen
dcterms.subjectsmall enterprisesen
dcterms.subjectsocial structureen
dcterms.subjectrole of womenen
dcterms.subjectmachinery cooperativesen
dcterms.subjectmobile phonesen
dcterms.subjectcultural factorsen
dcterms.subjecttrainingen
dcterms.subjectconstraintsen
dcterms.subjectharvestersen
dcterms.subjectfarm equipmenten
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectownershipen
dcterms.subjectagricultural mechanizationen
dcterms.subjectagricultural cooperativesen
dcterms.subjectdiscriminationen
dcterms.subjectgender relationsen
dcterms.subjectgender equityen
dcterms.subjectcrediten
dcterms.subjectequalityen
dcterms.subjectwomen farmersen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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