Study done by EfD researchers indicate that educating women directly impacts the up-taking of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs), according to SciDev.Net.
Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) are being popularized in Sub-Saharan Africa as the solution to improving land degradation, low agricultural productivity and hence widespread poverty in the region. The successful implementation of these practices is linked to women's education, according to the study.
"We found that each year of education for women increases the probability of adopting more than two of the SAPs by 12 per cent," says Hailemariam Teklewold, the lead author and a research fellow at the University of Gothenburg.
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Hailemariam Teklewold is a research fellow at the University of Gothenburg and an international research associate to EfD Ethiopia.