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Gender Matters in Farm Power

Authors
Anouka van Eerdewijk, K. Danielsen

This study explores how gender matters in small-scale farm power mechanization in African agriculture, particularly in maize-based systems. It investigates how intra-household gender dynamics affect women’s articulation of demand for and adoption of mechanization in Ethiopia and Kenya. The study offers a conceptual approach to grasp these gender dynamics, a gender analysis methodology, and a set of recommendations. The central research question is: How do intra-household gender dynamics affect women’s articulation of demand for and adoption of mechanization?

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