Modes of Access to Land, and Gender-Related Productivity Gap in Burkina Faso
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Date
2021-07-23
Authors
Gniza, Innocent Daniel
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African Economic Research Consortium
Abstract
This study analyses the sources of gender-related productivity gap, and measures
the impact of land access patterns on the productivity gap in Burkina Faso. The data
used in this research are drawn from the latest available study on living standards
in Burkina Faso with respect to integrated agricultural surveys carried out in 2013-
2014 in Burkina Faso. Like most countries in the Sub-Saharan region, Burkina Faso is
essentially an agricultural economy. As such, knowing the causes of the productivity
gap between genders is crucial for the formulation of policies designed to empower
women. The econometric approach used in this work is based on the estimation of
the Oaxaca-Blinder model, which explains the agricultural productivity gap by three
(3) clusters of effects: the endowment effect, the structural effect, and the interaction
effect. The results indicate that women farm managers are 26% less productive
compared to men. Breaking down the sources of productivity gap reveals that the
mode of access to land accounts for -300% of the endowment effect and 211.54% of
the structural effect, with land purchase and renting being the statistically significant
modes of access to land. This implies that policy makers need to reform the customary
laws that exclude women from land ownership.
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gender-related productivity gap, , mode of access to land, , Oaxaca-Blinder model.