Tool kit for Gender and Agriculture - Economic Commission for Africa

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Improving Agriculture through Gender Analysis
project by men and women participating in the project
• Average number, type, and distribution of animals owned by men and women participating
in the project
• Average and distribution of revenue from processing animal products by women
targeted by the project
• Views of men and women participants on the impact of project components on
their and their families’ revenue and well-being
• Percentage, specific posts, and specializations held by women in the ministry or
other agency, by grade.
• Percentage of women recruited or trained by the ministry or project, by grade.
F. Policy-Based Lending
Policy-based Bank lending in agriculture usually takes the form of sectoral adjustment
programs. Initially such policies were believed to be unaffected by gender; however, it
is now recognized that rigidities in the agricultural production structure can include
gender-based constraints to increased productivity. This is because of gender-based
differences in access to information, transaction costs of changing production functions,
the resource base, and the capital stock of individual farmers. Greater attention
to gender in policy-related lending for agriculture may, therefore, be needed to ensure
an improved supply response by women farmers, overcome built-in production constraints,
and protect vulnerable groups such as poor women. Ways of incorporating
gender concerns in policy-based agriculture lending are dealt with in Chapter III.