In sub-Saharan Africa women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural labor force, yet they are consistently found to be less productive than male farmers. The gender gap in agricultural productivity-measured by the value of agricultural produce per unit of cultivated land-ranges from 4-25 percent, depending on the country and the crop.1 The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, UN Women, and the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative jointly...
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Goldstein,Markus P.; Torkelsson,Asa Britta; Westman, Moa.
Costing the gender gap (English). Gender innovation lab policy brief|no. 13 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/745301468184751511