Claim · model-written summary
Both men and women contributed to continued production and use of traditional sorghum, with a greater overall labor burden on women.
- Taxon
- traditional sorghume0
- Outcome
- continued production and utilizatione0
- Qualifier
- general labor burden fell on womene0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
e0“continued production and utilization of traditional sorghum is as a result of the efforts of both men and women, although the general labor burden fell on women”
Title
Businge, Martha; Odong, Thomas L.; Miiro, Richard AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) 2025. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.361305
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Association Preferences for market, taste, storage, threshing and milling characteristics of traditional sorghum differed by gender.
- Mechanism Advances in processing technology could ease women’s time constraints and conserve difficult-to-process sorghum varieties with other desirable traits.
- Recommendation Future strategies for conservation and adoption of improved sorghum should include a gender dimension.