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The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda

Authored by: UN Women; UNDP; UNEP; World Bank Group

Categories: Human Rights
Sub-Categories: Economic Participation
Country: Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2015
Citation: UN Women; UNDP; UNEP; World Bank Group. 2015. The Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. World Bank Group, Washington, DC. © UN Women, UNDP, UNEP, and the World Bank Group. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22770 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO

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Executive Summary

Women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from 30 to 80 percent (FAO 2011). Yet women farmers are consistently found to be less productive than male farmers. The gender gap in agricultural productivity—measured by the value of agricultural produce per unit of cultivated land—ranges from 4 to 25 percent, depending on the country and the crop (World Bank and ONE 2014). This gap exists because women frequently have unequal access to key agricultural inputs such as land, labor, knowledge, fertilizer, and improved seeds. This report estimates the monetary value of the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.