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Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso

author(s) van Koppen, Barbara
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
citation

van Koppen, Barbara, 'Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso', In Institutional economics perspectives on African agricultural development. ed. Johann F. Kirsten, Andrew R. Dorward, Colin Poulton, and Nick Vink. Chapter 18. Pp. 389-408, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., 2009

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Abstract

Women are acknowledged to be responsible for 70–80 percent of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. They operate within the institutional arrangements of the farm household, the single most important institution for agricultural production. This chapter illustrates why and how the ways in which production and related resources rights are organized along gender lines are critical to smallholder agricultural growth in the continent. It also illustrates how policies and intervention programs based on an inadequate understanding of gender relations are bound to fail.

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