How does gender affect the adoption of agricultural innovations? The case of improved maize technology in Ghana
作者： Cheryl R Doss , Michael L Morris
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5150(00)00096-7
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摘要: 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 chemical fertilizer result access to complementary inputs. This finding has important policy implications, because it ensuring more widespread equitable improved may not require changes research system, but rather introduction measures ensure better for inputs, especially land, labor, extension services.
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