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: Received: 30 January 2024 / Approved: 30 January 2024 / Online: 30 January 2024 (12:52:41 CET)
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Tim-Ashama, A.C.; Obasi, P.C.; Emenyonu, C.A.; Ibekwe, U.C.; Awotide, B.A. Analysis of Gender Equity in Opportunities among Youth Engagement in Rice Value Chain in South-East, Nigeria. Preprints2024, 2024012125. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2125.v1
Tim-Ashama, A.C.; Obasi, P.C.; Emenyonu, C.A.; Ibekwe, U.C.; Awotide, B.A. Analysis of Gender Equity in Opportunities among Youth Engagement in Rice Value Chain in South-East, Nigeria. Preprints 2024, 2024012125. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2125.v1
Tim-Ashama, A.C.; Obasi, P.C.; Emenyonu, C.A.; Ibekwe, U.C.; Awotide, B.A. Analysis of Gender Equity in Opportunities among Youth Engagement in Rice Value Chain in South-East, Nigeria. Preprints2024, 2024012125. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2125.v1
APA Style
Tim-Ashama, A.C., Obasi, P.C., Emenyonu, C.A., Ibekwe, U.C., & Awotide, B.A. (2024). Analysis of Gender Equity in Opportunities among Youth Engagement in Rice Value Chain in South-East, Nigeria. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2125.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Tim-Ashama, A.C., Uwanu Christopher Ibekwe and Bola Amoke Awotide. 2024 "Analysis of Gender Equity in Opportunities among Youth Engagement in Rice Value Chain in South-East, Nigeria" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2125.v1
Abstract
The underperforming state of agricultural sector especially in Sub Saharan Africa, Nigeria inclusive is largely due to gender inequities in opportunities which undermine the sustainable and inclusive agricultural development. Agricultural value chain development requires equity in opportunities among men and women along the value chain, and this can only be done through interventions recommended by gender equity studies. The study analyzed gender equity opportunities, and youth engagement in rice value chains in southeast Nigeria. The multistage sampling technique was used in selecting the sample. The sample size consists of 476 youth rice value chain actors randomly selected from 48 villages across three states in South-East Nigeria. The data were analyzed using Modified Gender Equity Index (MGEI), and value addition models. The results from MGEI show that the level of gender equity opportunities for youth rice producers, processors and marketers were -0.21, -0.21 and -0.04 respectively, indicating inequity against the female youth. The overall value-added per ton by the male youth actors was ₦52,281 and ₦52,229 for female youth actors. The share of the value-added by male youth producers, processors and marketers were 51.65%, 49.41% and 47.78% while the share for female youth were 48.38%, 50.59% and 52.22%, respectively. The major constraints to youth engagement in rice value chain include lack of capital to start up, lack of access to credit, drought, lack of access to better technology, high cost of hiring machines, lack of technical skills, and stressful nature of rice value chain. It was recommended that Policies and interventions that ensure equal access to resources, opportunities, and decision-making power for both male and female youth actors should be implemented through targeted training programmes, awareness campaigns and capacity-building initiatives that promote gender equality.
Keywords
Analysis, Gender Equity, Opportunities, Youth Engagement, Value Chain
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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