How might gender norms mediate the benefits of higher coffee production in Uganda?

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dc.creatorDoan, Miki
dc.creatorHoffmann, Vivian
dc.date2021-12-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:09:51Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:09:51Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:46:09Z
dc.descriptionExpanding coffee exports is a major goal of Uganda’s government. By focusing on this high-value crop, almost all of which is sold to higher-income countries, Uganda hopes to boost farmers’ incomes and increase the country’s foreign exchange earnings as well as its tax base (UCDA, n.d.). The average yield of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda amounts to just third of the crop’s agronomic potential (Mongoya, 2018). The opportunity to increase yields – and thus the incomes of some of the world’s poorest farmers – by improving agronomic practices has spurred major philanthropic investment in coffee agronomy training in Uganda. However, gender norms and related constraints may affect how coffee income is distributed within households, and in this way erode the benefits this income brings to rural populations. In many settings, men have traditionally taken the lead role in production of cash crops grown for sale, while women have managed crops grown purely or primarily for subsistence (World Bank, FAO and IFAD, 2009). In this note, we describe results from the baseline survey of an impact evaluation of the Uganda Coffee Agronomy Training (UCAT) program, which aims to train 60,000 smallholder coffee growers over four years. For each cohort of farmers, the program lasts approximately two years, and is delivered through 22 training sessions held monthly for 11 months of the year.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142038
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/114074
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134844
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDoan, Miki; and Hoffmann, Vivian. 2021. How might gender norms mediate the benefits of higher coffee production in Uganda? Project December 2021. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134836.
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.subjecttraining
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectcoffee beans
dc.subjectcoffee
dc.subjectagronomy
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleHow might gender norms mediate the benefits of higher coffee production in Uganda?
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