The capacity of a household farming system with women's decision and action-making power: Rural marginal areas in Morocco

Alary Véronique, Romagny Bruno, Najjar Dina, Aderghal Mohamed, Moisseron Jean-Yves. 2025. The capacity of a household farming system with women's decision and action-making power: Rural marginal areas in Morocco. Agriculture (Basel), 15 (3):319, 21 p.

Résumé : Nowadays, women's contribution to society through their social and human involvement at the household level in terms of education, care, and nutrition, as well as their added value to economic functioning, is increasingly recognized. However, most of the related research highlights the relative contributions of women and men. This paper proposes to analyze the link between women's contribution to social, economic, and financial activities and the rural livelihood of the whole household farm. Based on a household survey that included a respondent section for women from over 285 families in the least rurally developed regions of Morocco, descriptive statistics and systemic analysis successively based on multiple factorial and clustering analyses were used to analyze the links between household adaptative capacity and women's material and immaterial contributions. The results revealed that women play a crucial role in intergenerational knowledge transfer, which constitutes a critical factor in household capacities and reproduction, especially in the least endowed households. However, the women's farm or off-farm activities did not guarantee their autonomy. So, the contribution of women to household farm livelihood through their know-how opens alternative pathways to reconsider their contribution to the overall goal of livelihood improvement.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : femme, rôle des femmes, économie rurale, nutrition humaine, agroécologie, petite exploitation agricole, revenu de l'exploitation, exploitation agricole familiale, attribution de pouvoirs et de moyens aux femmes, diversification, zone rurale, agriculture familiale, agriculture de subsistance, données ventilées par sexe

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Maroc

Mots-clés libres : Gender, Adaptive capacity, Household livelihood, Farming system, Decision making

Agences de financement hors UE : Agence Française de Développement, Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers

Auteurs et affiliations

• Alary Véronique, CIRAD-ES-UMR SELMET (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0003-4844-5423 - auteur correspondant
• Romagny Bruno, IRD (TUN)
• Najjar Dina, ICARDA (MAR)
• Aderghal Mohamed, UM5 (MAR)
• Moisseron Jean-Yves, IRD (FRA)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/611930/)

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