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Titre : Impact of Activities to Enhance the Empowerment of Farming Women in Achieving Rural Development in Gadarif State - Sudan

Auteur : Ebtihal Mohammed Ibn Idriss Hag El Abbas

Université de soutenance : University of Khartoum

Grade : Ph.D. in Rural Development 2020

Résumé partiel
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of activities that enhance the empowerment of farming women in achieving rural development in Gadarif State. The study was based on primary data collected from a field survey and secondary data collected from the Ministry of Agriculture, State Ministry of Agriculture in Gadarif State, Zainab Organization for Women Development and Improvement. The study covered the period 2016-2020. The study used primary data collected from a field survey in four villages in the two localities of Galabat Shargia and Galabat Gharbia in the State. The field survey covered 400 respondent farming women randomly selected using the stratified purposive accidental method. The study used descriptive and analytical statistics for analysis of the data employing EXCEL software package. The study found that the average age of most of the women was 45 years old. The study also found that 68% of the women had basic education, own access to TV, radio and mobile services. Farming women vary in their cooperation with NGOs benefiting from opportunities provided on crops, implements and access to markets. VI Although, farming women operate on small scale level and obtain low crop yields, their average income amounted to SDG 5662/month (27% from agriculture, 51% from non-agriculture sources including petty trade, low-rank jobs in government offices, selling of food, tea, and other, medical technicians, midwife and bell girl ; and 22% from miscellaneous sources such as collection and selling of firewood and sewing of clothes, renting of kitchen utensils and land plots for crop production). Farming women were supported by financially by their relatives who contributed an average of SDG 18094 per month. About 23% of the relatives had income from agriculture, 44% form non-agriculture and 32% from miscellaneous. This relieved women partially from bearing the household financial responsibility. All farming women benefited from agriculture production but with variations which reflects differences in soils, rainfall, experience and management. Sorghum crop was the most profitable product used for home consumption and for sale in the market. The crop gave the highest gross marginal return of SDG 10664 with a benefit cost ratio of 4.75, followed by millet (3.12) and groundnuts (2.53) and sesame (1.56). The low returns of sesame were related to the infection of the crop with (Hammosh) in season 2018/19. Returns from wildly grown and collected Waika (dry okra) about SDG 2590 and Luba (Pigeons -Peas) about SDG 1671 added another source of farm income. VII The study also indicated that the generated total income (SDG 8224/month) was able to cover almost 91% of their women total spending on food and non-food items (SDG 9010/month).

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