Gender Roles and Constraints in the Green Cooking Banana Value Chain: Evidence from Southwestern Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorAjambo, S.
dc.contributor.authorMbabazi, E.G.
dc.contributor.authorNalunga, A.
dc.contributor.authorKikulwe, E.M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-15T10:52:44Z
dc.date.available2023-03-15T10:52:44Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides an overview of how women and men engage in the green cooking banana value chain (VC) and the specific constraints they face. Several recommendations for gender-responsive interventions are made. Results are based on quantitative and qualitative data collected in 2015 in southwestern Uganda in the districts of Rakai and Isingiro from actors along the VC via surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs), seasonal calendars and daily activity schedules. Results show that the green cooking banana VC is dominated by men, with only 30% of the actors in the VC being women. Social norms and business entry requirements pose major constraints to women's participation in this VC. Men and women are involved in various roles along the VC, with some roles mostly performed by men and others by women. Production is majorly controlled by men, who own and oversee most of the plantation management and sales. A few women own plantations, and acreage is usually smaller (1.5 ha) than that of men's plantations (2.4 ha). Women dominate the retail node (70%) but are absent at the wholesale node. The retail node is characterized by the highest PHL (18.42%) and the lowest profit margins. Men retailers incur higher physical (8.45%) and residual (UGX 10.084.5) losses compared to women retailers (physical (7.35); residual (UGX 9.112.5)). Women mainly access credit from informal sources that do not require collateral such as farmers' groups. We recommend promoting evidence-based advocacy of women's rights to land, and developing strategies aimed at developing financial products, such as loans, that respond to the needs of women farmers. VC analyses should include gender roles to give due recognition to the contributions of men and women VC actors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAjambo, S., Mbabazi, E. G., Nalunga, A., & Kikulwe, E. M. (2018, August). Gender roles and constraints in the green cooking banana value chain: evidence from southwestern Uganda. In XXX International Horticultural Congress IHC2018: XI International Symposium on Banana: ISHS-ProMusa Symposium onGrowing and 1272 (pp. 135-144).https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2020.1272.17en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/8185
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherISHS Acta Horticulturae 1272en_US
dc.subjectgender rolesen_US
dc.subjectagricultural value chainsen_US
dc.subjectgreen cooking bananaen_US
dc.subjectvalue chain analysisen_US
dc.subjectgender constraintsen_US
dc.titleGender Roles and Constraints in the Green Cooking Banana Value Chain: Evidence from Southwestern Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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