Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh

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dc.creatorTheis, Sophie
dc.creatorSultana, Nasrin
dc.creatorKrupnik, Timothy J.
dc.creatorInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
dc.creatorInternational Rice Research Institute
dc.date2018-03-28
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:36Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:36Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:41:40Z
dc.descriptionCustom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia. We studied the gendered differences in women’s and men’s involvement in emerging markets for reaper-harvester machinery services in the Feed the Future Zone in Bangladesh. We find that women benefit from managing and sometimes owning machinery services, as well as from the direct and indirect consequences of hiring such services to harvest their crops. However, a number of technical, economic, and cultural barriers constrain women’s full participation in these benefits. The brief provides suggestions for initiatives promoting rural machinery services to more fully engage women, as business owners and users of machinery, to expand the benefits of these markets, with relevance for South Asia and other farming geographies dominated by smallholders.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/111949
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceTheis, Sophie; Sultana, Nasrin; and Krupnik, Timothy J. 2018. Overcoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh. GCAN Project Note 8. CSISA Research Note 9. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145517
dc.subjectparticipation
dc.subjectsmall enterprises
dc.subjectsocial structure
dc.subjectrole of women
dc.subjectmachinery cooperatives
dc.subjectmobile phones
dc.subjectcultural factors
dc.subjecttraining
dc.subjectconstraints
dc.subjectharvesters
dc.subjectfarm equipment
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectownership
dc.subjectagricultural mechanization
dc.subjectagricultural cooperatives
dc.subjectdiscrimination
dc.subjectgender relations
dc.subjectgender equity
dc.subjectcredit
dc.subjectequality
dc.subjectwomen farmers
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleOvercoming gender gaps in rural mechanization: Lessons from reaper-harvester service provision in Bangladesh
dc.typeWorking Paper

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