Gender and conservation agriculture in East and Southern Africa: towards a research agenda

摘要: It is remarkable that despite wide-ranging, in-depth studies over many years, almost no conservation agriculture (CA) consider gender and relations as a potential explanatory factor for (low) adoption rates. This important because CA demands new ways of working with the farm system. Implementation will inevitably involve reallocation men's women's resources well having an impact upon their ability to realize interests. With respect intra-household decision-making distribution benefits, interventions have implications labour requirements allocation, investment decisions mechanization herbicide use, crop choice, residue management. practice may households source wide variety crops, wild plants, insects small animals household nutrition. Gender biases in extension service design can sideline women. paper examines limited research date on inter...