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Organic Fertilizer Adoption, Household Food Access, and Gender-Based Farm Labor Use: Empirical Insights from Northern Ghana

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  • Daadi, Bunbom Edward
  • Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe

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This paper examined organic fertilizer adoption and its effects on two household food security indicators and gender-based farm labor use among smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana. An endogenous switching regression analysis shows that observed and unobserved farmer background factors determine farmers’ decision to adopt organic fertilizer as well as the outcomes from adoption. On average, adoption is associated with an 11% increase in per capita food consumption and a 55% reduction in household food gap duration. Adoption is also related to an increased labor use by 5.9 (90%) of female worker days and 1.3 (9%) of male worker days per acre, placing nearly all (82%) of the increased labor burden on female farmhands. We recommend mitigation of factors that hinder farmers from adopting the input and provision of female-user-friendly labor-saving devices for organic fertilizer use tasks.

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  • Daadi, Bunbom Edward & Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe, 2021. "Organic Fertilizer Adoption, Household Food Access, and Gender-Based Farm Labor Use: Empirical Insights from Northern Ghana," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 53(3), pages 435-458, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:53:y:2021:i:3:p:435-458_7
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    1. Choi, Jiseon & Jodlowski, Margaret C., 2022. "Tenure Status and Land Investment in South Korea," 2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California 322476, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Wonder Agbenyo & Yuansheng Jiang & Xinxin Jia & Jingyi Wang & Gideon Ntim-Amo & Rahman Dunya & Anthony Siaw & Isaac Asare & Martinson Ankrah Twumasi, 2022. "Does the Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices Impact Farmers’ Income? Evidence from Ghana," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-25, March.

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