Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation, Sociology Program, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Award number 1458989.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.03.004
The objective of this paper is to examine the 'gendered' asset gap' (Lyon et al., 2016:1) by assessing the effects and trade-offs of livestock assets for women's empowerment and gender equity within the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) program in Uganda. EADD was initiated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is among the largest private foundations engaged in agricultural development in Africa. Working with other organizations, EADD targeted smallholder farmers, including women, to receive 'improved' crossbreed dairy cows (Quisubing and Roy, 2014). A goal of this initiative is to empower women and reduce gender inequities by increasing women's incomes through increasing agricultural productivity and sales of dairy products (Rubin and Manfre, 2014; Rubin et al., 2009).