Lentils, Traits and Adoption in Ethiopia

Abstract

Dina Najjar, Gender Scientist, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Protecting Ethiopian Lentil Crops Initiation Workshop, October 11-13, 2021

Gain a more nuanced understanding of legumes as a “women’s crop” through looking at labour contributions, access to resources in lentil production, trait preferences, innovations adoption, marketing and ability to control related income. • Lentil is a cash and subsistence crop (women and men farmers are thus interested in a variety of attributes) • the sale of lentils constitutes 50 to 100 percent of smallholders’ income.