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Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal
COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9757924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103035 |
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author | Alvi, Muzna Barooah, Prapti Gupta, Shweta Saini, Smriti |
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description | COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to agricultural extension was impacted by the lockdowns and its effect on agricultural productivity. We find that women's already low access to formal extension was reduced further, leading to an increased reliance on informal social networks. In both countries, nearly 50% farmers reported negative impacts on productivity due to inaccessibility of information during the lockdown. In India, we find that access to formal extension is mediated by crop type, geographic location and caste identity. We discuss ways in which extension systems in India and Nepal can be made more inclusive and resilient to future crisis, including by adapting group and community-based approaches to post-pandemic best practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-97579242022-12-19 Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal Alvi, Muzna Barooah, Prapti Gupta, Shweta Saini, Smriti Agric Syst Article COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to agricultural extension was impacted by the lockdowns and its effect on agricultural productivity. We find that women's already low access to formal extension was reduced further, leading to an increased reliance on informal social networks. In both countries, nearly 50% farmers reported negative impacts on productivity due to inaccessibility of information during the lockdown. In India, we find that access to formal extension is mediated by crop type, geographic location and caste identity. We discuss ways in which extension systems in India and Nepal can be made more inclusive and resilient to future crisis, including by adapting group and community-based approaches to post-pandemic best practices. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-03 2021-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9757924/ /pubmed/36570044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103035 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Alvi, Muzna Barooah, Prapti Gupta, Shweta Saini, Smriti Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal |
title | Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal |
title_full | Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal |
title_fullStr | Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal |
title_full_unstemmed | Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal |
title_short | Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal |
title_sort | women's access to agriculture extension amidst covid-19: insights from gujarat, india and dang, nepal |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9757924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36570044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103035 |
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