Promoting adoption of sustainable land management technologies by women and couples in Ethiopia: Evidence from a randomized trial

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dc.creatorLeight, Jessica
dc.creatorBahiru, Kibret Mamo
dc.creatorBuehren, Niklas
dc.creatorGetahun, Tigabu
dc.creatorGilligan, Daniel O.
dc.creatorMulford, Michael
dc.creatorTambet, Heleene
dc.date2024-12-31
dc.date2025-01-03T18:04:09Z
dc.date2025-01-03T18:04:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:44:45Z
dc.descriptionSustainable land management (SLM) technologies including composting and agro-forestry are widely promoted as strategies to counter land degradation and enhance resilience against adverse weather shocks. Given that women are disproportionately vulnerable to such shocks, promoting their uptake of these technologies may be particularly important. We conducted a randomized trial in rural Ethiopia analyzing a bundled intervention providing training and inputs designed to encourage uptake of three interrelated SLM technologies: fruit tree planting, composting, and home gardening. The trial included 1900 extremely poor households in 95 subdistricts, randomly assigned to treatment arms in which women only or couples were included in the intervention. The findings one year post-baseline suggest a positive and large effect on take-up of all three technologies: the probability of reporting any trees increased by eight percentage points, and the probability of reporting a garden and/or composting increased by 20 to 30 percentage points, symmetrically across treatment arms. There are also significant reported increases in household vegetable production and consumption as well as in women’s dietary diversity. There is, however, some evidence that tree survival rates and tree health are weakly lower in intervention households compared to control households who spontaneously planted trees. Some positive effects on equitable intrahousehold decision-making and task-sharing are observed, especially in the couples’ training arm, but in general there is no robust evidence that either intervention significantly shifted intrahousehold gender dynamics.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168513
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/113422
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143065
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/134921
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceLeight, Jessica; Bahiru, Kibret Mamo; Buehren, Niklas; Getahun, Tigabu; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Mulford, Michael; and Tambet, Heleene. 2024. Promoting adoption of sustainable land management technologies by women and couples in Ethiopia: Evidence from a randomized trial. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2309. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168513
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectland management
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectsustainable land management
dc.titlePromoting adoption of sustainable land management technologies by women and couples in Ethiopia: Evidence from a randomized trial
dc.typeWorking Paper

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