Lentils, Traits and Adoption in Ethiopia

Abstract

Dina Najjar, Gender Scientist, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Protecting Ethiopian Lentil Crops Initiation Workshop, October 11-13, 2021 

Gain a more nuanced understanding of legumes as a “women’s crop” through
looking at labour contributions, access to resources in lentil production, trait
preferences, innovations adoption, marketing and ability to control related
income.
• Lentil is a cash and subsistence crop (women and men farmers are thus interested in a
variety of attributes)
• the sale of lentils constitutes 50 to 100 percent of smallholders’ income