Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab Socioeconomic Research

Feed the Future
Soybean
Innovation Lab:
Socioeconomic
Research
Kathleen Ragsdale, PhDa
Lindsey Peterson, PhDb
a
b
Associate Research Professor, Social Science Research Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Presentation to Dr. Robert Bertram, USAID Ξ January 28, 2014
The Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab (Goldsmith, PI) is supported
by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Source: http://www.oired.vt.edu/wgd/Gender-and-Development-Issues.html#3
www.one.org
Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL):
Four Research Pillars
Source: Goldmith et al, 2013
SIL: Integrated Approach
SARI
Savanna
Agricultural
Research
Institute
Source: Goldmith et al, 2013
Distribution of Households Cultivating Soy
in Ghana’s Northern Region
SARI
Source: Ghana Statistical Service. 2010 Populaition and Housing Census. Cartography by the Center for Applied Resource and Environmental Systems. January 2014.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013. XXX. GLSS, 2005
WEAI: Women’s Empowerment
in Agriculture Index
 Rural agricultural households underrepresented in cross-national surveys
 Data on empowerment may not be
applicable to rural smallholder farmers
How WEAI Fills the Gap
 Designed for application in rural
agricultural communities
 Household-level and individuallevel data
 Impact of inequality on women’s
empowerment*
Kabeer. (2001). Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh. World Development; 29,(1,): 63-84.
WEAI: Five Domains
of Empowerment
Alkire et al. (2013). The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. OPHI Working Paper No. 58.
Availabe at: http://www.ifpri.org/publication/womens-empowerment-agriculture-index
Balya Village:
Tamale District, Ghana
Socioeconomic Research
for Soy Innovation
 Barriers to improved soy
productivity:
 extreme rurality
 gender empowerment gaps
 low literacy
 Research goals:
 community buy-in / sustainability
 culturally appropriate agriculture
interventions
 cooperative savings & loan (SILC)
Expanding Socioeconomic
Research
 SOY LABOR SURVEY: PLANTING / HARVEST
 Barriers to soy production for rural
smallholder farmers
 expand data on planting / harvest hiring
 sources of labor
 costs of labor
 SEASONAL MIGRATION: PLANTING / HARVEST
 Rural-to-city migrants ‒ interviews / surveys
 RURAL
VILLAGE MAPPING
Me Da Se!
(Thank You)
Kathleen Ragsdale, PhD
Lindsey Peterson, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Assistant Professor
Social Science Research Center
Department of Sociology
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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