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Title The impact of agricultural co-operatives on women's empowerment: Evidence from Uganda
Full text https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/the-impact-of-agricultural-co-operatives-on-womens-empowerment-ev
Date 2017
Author(s) Lecoutere, Els
Abstract This article contributes to understanding the potential of agricultural co-operatives to boost women's empowerment and close gender gaps in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides quasi-experimental evidence of the impact of membership of an agricultural co-operative on women's capabilities, their power and ability to influence decisions, and intra-household productive and reproductive labour divisions. It uses the P'KWI Farmer to Farmer Co-operative Society in north-eastern Uganda as a case study. It shows that being a member of P'KWI has a significantly positive impact on economic wellbeing, knowledge and adoption of agronomic practices, especially among women. Co-operative membership has a particularly strong positive impact on women's decision making power at the household, group and community levels. Intra-household domestic and farm related labour divisions, however, did not change as a result of co-operative membership and remain disadvantageous for women. The article concludes that agricultural co-operatives can make a significant difference for women's empowerment, provided that they actively and consistently address the bottlenecks to achieve gender equality.
Subject(s) Agricultural co-operatives; Gender roles; Sub-Saharan africa; Uganda; Women's empowerment
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/540114
Type of publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Article/Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format text/html
Source Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management 5 (2017) 1; ISSN: 2213-297X
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1016/j.jcom.2017.03.001
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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