Browsing by Author "Hyera, Erasto Osias"

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    Effect of socio-cultural factors on gendered decision-making in the adoption of improved maize storage technologies
    (Taylor & Francis Online, 2022) Mwinuka, Lutengano; Hyera, Erasto Osias
    Post-harvest loss is a historical challenge affecting some of agricultural products including maize which is a vital cereal crop in Tanzania. Enhanced knowledge and training on the use of metal silo and hermetic bags have been among the initiatives introduced to address post-harvest losses. This paper, therefore, assesses the effects of socio-cultural factors on the gendered decision-making process in the adoption of improved maize storage technologies. The paper looks at the role of bargaining power, task division and implications for enhancing the socio-economic status of farming households. The study was cross-sectional and used a multistage sampling method to select villages and respondents in each district. Data were collected through questionnaires, focus groups and key informant interviews. Logistic regression and descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data gathered. The findings revealed that awareness, farming experience, age and beliefs were the key socio-cultural factors that made men and women adopt better storage technologies. The findings further revealed that the division of tasks between gender-specific households was not statistically significant with respect to the adoption of improved maize storage technologies. These findings imply that there is no need for gender mainstreaming in task division and gender-sensitive technologies, even among gender-diverse farmers from diverse socio-cultural communities. Thus, awareness programs need to be expanded and adopt joint decisions through farming households so as to play a key role in balancing bar-gaining power
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    Effect of socio-cultural factors on gendered decision-making in the adoption of improved maize storage technologies
    (Taylor & Francis, 2022) Mwinuka, Lutengano; Hyera, Erasto Osias
    Post-harvest loss is a historical challenge affecting some of agricultural products including maize which is a vital cereal crop in Tanzania. Enhanced knowledge and training on the use of metal silo and hermetic bags have been among the initiatives introduced to address post-harvest losses. This paper, therefore, assesses the effects of socio-cultural factors on the gendered decision-making process in the adoption of improved maize storage technologies. The paper looks at the role of bargaining power, task division and implications for enhancing the socio-economic status of farming households. The study was cross-sectional and used a multistage sampling method to select villages and respondents in each district. Data were collected through questionnaires, focus groups and key informant interviews. Logistic regression and descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data gathered. The findings revealed that awareness, farming experience, age and beliefs were the key socio-cultural factors that made men and women adopt better storage technologies. The findings further revealed that the division of tasks between gender-specific households was not statistically significant with respect to the adoption of improved maize storage technologies. These findings imply that there is no need for gender mainstreaming in task division and gender-sensitive technologies, even among gender-diverse farmers from diverse socio-cultural communities. Thus, awareness programs need to be expanded and adopt joint decisions through farming households so as to play a key role in balancing bargaining power.
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    Gendered decision making in the adoption of maize storage technologies in Ushetu and Mbulu districts
    (The University of Dodoma, 2019) Hyera, Erasto Osias
    Existence of Post-harvest loss is still a threat that does not only affect the state of food security, but also significantly compromises the livelihood of the majority. To mitigate this different stakeholder from the government and non-governmental institutions have put several programs to popularize loss reduction innovations specifically at the storage level. Among the initiatives introduced enhanced knowledge and training on the use of metal silo and hermetic bags. Despite the efforts devoted, its adoption is assumed to be a social agency that is specifically decided through gender relations. Thus, this study aimed to assess the influence of gendered decision-making process on the adoption of the improved maize storage technologies as the means of fighting hunger and poverty. A cross-sectional design was employed. The data were collected from 120 respondents through the use of focus group discussion, questionnaire, and key informant interview. Logistic regression, Linear probability model, descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. The result after an analysis revealed that intra-household bargaining power was not statically significant towards influencing the adoption of improved maize storage technology. It was also found that awareness, farming experience, age of the households and beliefs are the major socio-cultural factors that have influenced a gender to adopt the improved storage technologies. Lastly, the results revealed that task division among the gendered households was not statistically significant towards the adoption of improved maize storage technologies in both Mbulu and Ushetu districts. Therefore, this study recommends that awareness program over the improved maize storage technologies should be extended so that to ensure that all the members of the nation are aware with improved maize storage technologies. This will enable the members of the family, regardless of their gender, to make joint decisions about the adoption of the improved maize storage technologies. By so doing, the household members will be assured with food supply and therefore meeting no hunger objective and consequently improving their social and economic status.