How does gender affect the adoption of agricultural innovations?
研究性别如何影响农业技术采用率,基于加纳证据发现男女采用现代玉米品种和化肥的差异源于获取补充投入(如土地、劳动力和推广服务)的机会不同。
Abstract Why do men and women adopt agricultural technologies at different rates? Evidence from Ghana suggests that gender‐linked differences in the adoption of modern maize varieties and chemical fertilizer result from gender‐linked differences in access to complementary inputs. This finding has important policy implications, because it suggests that ensuring more widespread and equitable adoption of improved technologies may not require changes in the research system, but rather introduction of measures that ensure better access for women to complementary inputs, especially land, labor, and extension services.