Presented by Ranjitha Puskur and Lemlem Aregu at Gender and Market Oriented Agriculture (AgriGender 2011) Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31st January–2nd February 2011

1. Outcomes of women’s participation in market-oriented commodity development: Evidence from IPMS Gender and Market Oriented Agriculture (AgriGender 2011) Workshop Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 31st January–2nd February 2011 Ranjitha Puskur and Lemlem Aregu

3. technical interventions to improve productivity and production

4. developing input supply systems

5. access to inputs and services to produce marketable commodities

6. capacity building and knowledge sharing activities

9. a large majority married

10. most of the women could not read and write

11. ones who went to school seem to have opted for poultry, dairy, apiculture and vegetables

12. women from households with larger landholding entered fruit cultivation and forage production where irrigation was available

13. those with larger landholdings in drier areas took up small ruminant rearing

15. Outcomes Proportion of Households reporting (%)

16. Outcomes Proportion of Households reporting (%)

17. Control of new assets Proportion of Households reporting (%)

18. Workloads Proportion of Households reporting (%)

19. Training outcomes Proportion of Households reporting (%)

20. Complementary support provided Proportion of Households reporting (%)

21. Who is selling? Proportion of Households reporting (%)

22. Sales.. Proportion of Households reporting (%)

23. Changes in consumption and sales Per Household per annum annually – Before and After

24. Changes in consumption and sales..

25. Control of income from sales Proportion of Households reporting (%)

26. Challenges small scale operations that might not be generating enough income to catapult these households out of poverty ensuring adequate volume of good quality products enhancing their bargaining power through collective action enhance sustainably access to markets institutional arrangements that can supply quality inputs and services on a consistent basis to rural households access to capital through microfinance or Self Help Group (SHG) like savings and credit arrangements mainstreaming gender effectively in the plans, programs and activities of the Public sector organizations – especially extension services M&E and generating evidence

27. Thank you!