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Kolu, Ethiopia.
Photo: Petterik Wiggers / IWMI LevelLing the field:
Improving Opportunities for Women Farmers in Africa
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Foreword
Introduction
Key Findings
Part 1: Country Profiles 15
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Malawi
Niger
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Summing It Up: Key Drivers of the Gender Gap Part 2: Policy
Priorities for Narrowing the Gender Gap in African Agriculture
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Appendix 2: Women Farmers and Household Headship
Appendix 3: Going Beyond the Survey Data: Other Factors that
May Matter for the Gender Gap
Appendix 4: Evidence and Implementation Guide for Policy
Options to Narrow the Gender Gap
Appendix 5: Technical Annex on Decomposition Methods
Endnotes Levelling the field: Improving Opportunities for Women
Farmers in Africa 1 Acknowledgements
his report was prepared by a core team of authors led by
Michael OSullivan from the World Bank and Arathi Rao from the
ONE
Campaign. Core authors included Raka Banerjee, Kajal Gulati and
Margaux Vinez.
The report is a joint production of the World Bank and the ONE
Campaign.
Contributing groups from the World Bank include the Africa
Region Gender Practice
(ARGP), the Development Economics Research Group Living
Standards
Measurement Survey Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-
ISA) team and the
Africa Region Agriculture, Rural Development and Irrigation Unit
(AFTAR). The work
was managed by the Africa Region Gender Practice Leader,
Markus Goldstein, with
Emilie Greenhalgh providing assistance with writing, editing and
coordination.
Sara Harcourt was lead editor and directed the publication team at
ONE, while
Caitlyn Mitchell managed the reports production. Catherine
Blampied of ONE was a
contributing writer. Copy-editing was provided by David Wilson.
The reports design
and art direction were guided by Christopher Mattox and ONE
designer,
Elizabeth Brady. Saharan Africa and whose individual authors are
listed in the references. In addition,
a number of people provided country- and topic-specific support.
For the country
analysis section, Talip Kilic provided research on Malawi,
provided the technical
annex (Appendix 5) and assisted with additional calculations and
clarifications.
Gbemisola Oseni provided support on Nigeria and on general
concerns.
Amparo Palacios-Lopez supplied knowledge on Malawi. Eliana
Carranza and
Arturo Aguilar gave essential information for Ethiopia. Vanya
Slavchevska worked
to deliver results from Tanzania. Prospere Backiny-Yetna and
Kevin McGee provided
information on Niger. Daniel Ayalew Ali, Derick Bowen, Klaus
Deininger and
Marguerite Duponchel presented findings from Uganda, while Ana
Paula de la O Campos
and Alberto Prieto also contributed information. For guidance on
policy
recommendations, the International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI) offered
considerable assistance. The team would particularly like to thank
key members
from IFPRI who contributed insights for the report, including
Agnes Quisumbing,
John Hoddinott and Alan De Brauw. Amber Peterman (University
of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill) and Jenny Aker (Tufts University) also assisted with
valuable information.
The LSMS-ISA team contributed the data for all of the country
analyses. A panel of advisors comprising Francisco Ferreira, David
Evans, Tijan M. Sallah,
Severin Kodderitzsch, Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Calogero Carletto
and Aparajita Goyal of
the World Bank provided excellent counsel on the report. Eija
Pehu, Pirkko Poutiainen,
Lynn Brown, Christine Heumesser, Donald Larson (all of the
World Bank) and
Cheryl Doss (Yale University) delivered valuable, comprehensive
comments
and contributions for the report concept note and final output
review.

The report team benefited greatly from meetings and consultations

with a variety
of actors whose background research contributed to it. The country
profiles are based
on a set of studies conducted under the LSMS programme Gender
Differentials in
Agricultural Productivity: Identifying Opportunities for
Agricultural Growth in Sub- The World Bank team would like to
acknowledge the generous support of the World
Banks Africa Region Vice Presidency and the Umbrella Fund for
Gender Equality. The
ONE Campaign would like to thank the Caterpillar Foundation for
its kind contribution
to the reports production.

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