Advancing gender equity justice through care-inclusive farmer field and business schools

About this project

Tanzanian women spend an average of four hours daily on unpaid domestic work, in contrast to one hour for men. Gendered inequalities are also present in the agricultural sector, where although women constitute nearly half of the agricultural workforce, a significant productivity gap remains. In rural areas, women are often expected to work as unpaid family farm labourers and their productivity and income from agricultural activities is constrained by limited access to men’s labour, low income to invest in productivity-enhancing inputs, and pressure to prioritize subsistence crops over cash crops. This project aims to address these interconnected issues by providing access to affordable, time-saving technologies and care infrastructure, redistributing unpaid care work within households through gender dialogues, and transforming community structures through collective investments and engagement with government departments. The project will implement the farmer field business school (FFBS) approach in the Iringa District in Tanzania. FFBS enhances small-scale women farmers’ productivity and profitability through a gender-transformative, market-oriented and nutrition-sensitive training curriculum. This practical approach fosters knowledge-sharing, experimentation and peer learning, and incorporates feedback mechanisms for communities to hold their extension service providers accountable. The project will also address the intersection of care work, gender norms and power dynamics…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Tanzania

Sectors

Agricultural policy and administrative management

Focus

Gender equality · Main focus

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110363-001.

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