Female-Headed Farm Households in Two Contras'Ing Regions in Etmopia: Access to and Management of Resources

Abstract

This paper looks into the differences between femaleheade and male-headed households in accessing productive resources.It is based on a comparison of the conditions existing in two woredas in central Ethiopia which exhibit differences in ecology and farming system and farm technology. In the interest of getting in-depth information case studies-supplemented a standard survey data. The findings suggest that except in rare cases female-headed household, have less access to resources and have lawer incomes than male-headed
households.