Impacts of gender-inclusive extension approaches on farmer understanding and willingness to pay for bundled financial services

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100268
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Building the resilience of smallholder farmers, and their ability to cope with the negative impacts of climate shocks can significantly improve the sustainability of agriculture as a reliable source of livelihood. While innovations such as index insurance and bundled financial instruments could enhance smallholder farmers' climate resilience, their uptake, and use remain low, especially among women farmers. Based on experimental data from a risk contingent credit (RCC—an insurance bundled credit product) project in Kenya, we argue that employing inclusive extension approaches that address social inequities in information access and use could enhance gender equality in product understanding, a key determinant of uptake. We evaluate the gender differences of the impacts of conventional face-to-face, animated brochures, and video-based extension approaches on product understanding and willingness to pay (WTP) for RCC. We find that; (i) providing animated brochures to a random subset of farmers significantly improved their understanding and WTP for the product, (ii) the use of animated videos significantly increased product understanding, but it had weaker impacts on the farmers' WTP, and (iii) the impact of animated brochures on product understanding was significantly larger among women farmers. This study underscores the importance of addressing social and cultural barriers to agricultural information access and use, and designing tailored extension approaches to support men and women in making informed decisions about climate risk management. From a policy perspective, we conclude that addressing these barriers could foster a socially fair, and a more sustainable and resilient agricultural sector for both men and women smallholder farmers.
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性别包容推广方法对农民对捆绑式金融服务的理解和支付意愿的影响
增强小农的抗灾能力以及他们应对气候冲击负面影响的能力,可以大大提高农业作为可靠生计来源的可持续性。虽然指数保险和捆绑式金融工具等创新措施可以提高小农的气候抗御能力,但这些措施的吸收率和使用率仍然很低,尤其是在女性农民中。基于肯尼亚一个风险应急信贷(RCC--一种保险捆绑信贷产品)项目的实验数据,我们认为,采用包容性推广方法来解决信息获取和使用方面的社会不平等问题,可以提高产品理解方面的性别平等,而这正是吸收的一个关键决定因素。我们评估了传统的面对面、动画小册子和基于视频的推广方法对产品理解和 RCC 支付意愿(WTP)的性别差异影响。我们发现:(i) 向随机的农民子集提供动画小册子能显著提高他们对产品的理解和 WTP,(ii) 使用动画视频能显著提高对产品的理解,但对农民 WTP 的影响较弱,(iii) 动画小册子对产品理解的影响在女性农民中明显更大。这项研究强调了解决农业信息获取和使用方面的社会和文化障碍以及设计有针对性的推广方法以支持男性和女性在气候风险管理方面做出明智决策的重要性。从政策角度看,我们认为消除这些障碍可以促进社会公平,并为男性和女性小农提供更可持续、更具复原力的农业部门。
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Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Environmental Science-General Environmental Science
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