研究发现植物诊所的益处的性别差距

[LAGOS] Male smallholder farmers who participated in plant clinics in Zambia gained more in terms oftechnologyadoption and食品安全than their female counterparts, astudy成立。

植物诊所正在遇到农民带来的“病态”作物的样本，并从接受植物医生培训的推广人员那里获得建议。

“Plant clinics have grown in popularity and importance in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the wake of the outbreak of the devastating fall armyworm pest,” says Justice Tambo, a coauthor of the study.

这study，发表在9月号的世界发展，基于赞比亚的玉米生产商的性别 - 分散数据。它发现，在女性农民中，使用植物诊所服务的好处对于家庭负责人而不是女性配偶更为明显，这意味着妇女在家中妇女决策能力的优势。

“最大化植物诊所对女性农民的有效性将需要为他们提供额外的支持以实施所获得的知识。”

Justice Tambo, CABI

“最大化植物诊所对女性农民的有效性将需要为他们提供额外的支持以实施知识gained as well as addressing underlying gender inequalities and power relations,” explains Tambo, an agricultural economist at the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI, the parent organisation ofscidev.net).

坦博说：“在过去的十年中，植物诊所扩展方法迅速扩大，在非洲，亚洲和拉丁美洲的30多个国家建立了约5,000个植物诊所。”他补充说，在赞比亚，有172家植物诊所，到目前为止，有超过12,000个农民的疑问。

这study was conducted usingdata从837年小农家庭由444人民解放军nt clinic users and 393 non-clinic users cultivating 1,048 maize plots in rural Zambia during the 2018-2019 farming season.

研究人员研究了男性和女性农民是否会因改善农作物害虫的管理，作物生产力和粮食安全而获得类似的收益。

“We find that participation in plant clinics stimulates the adoption of multiple pest management strategies, which boost maize yield and income by 14 per cent and 27 per cent respectively, and ultimately help to stave off food insecurity,” says the study.

“A disaggregated analysis shows that both male and female farmers achieve positive outcomes from using plant clinic services but the effects are disproportionately greater for male farmers.”

该研究补充说：“男性和女性诊所使用者分别比非临床用户大约有110％和69％采用化学控制的可能性。”

坦博告诉scidev.netthat the findings suggest that plant clinics allow both male and female farmers to increase the adoption of crop protection techniques — but this is not sufficient to overcome thegender农业生产力的差异。

Adamu Fidelis, the founder of MyFarm Nigeria, says: “Women will bring more [outputs] in farming if given equal opportunity as their male counterparts.

“Plant clinic is not working here in Nigeria and one of the reasons is because there has not been full inclusion of females in decision-making.”

菲德利斯呼吁非洲人决策者使妇女能够获得免费的农田，以促进粮食安全和家庭收入。

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