Measuring women’s empowerment in organic farming from Odisha: critical reflections on the total observed score of statement-revised scale (TOSS-R)

IF 1.9 Q2 ECONOMICS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI:10.1108/ijse-09-2023-0693

Sarthak Dash, Sugyanta Priyadarshini, Nisrutha Dulla, Sukanta Chandra Swain

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the level of empowerment of rural women organic farmers through the Total Observed Score of a Statement-Revised scale (TOSS-R).

Design/methodology/approach

In doing so, exploratory factor analysis is used to investigate the factorial structure of the 8-dimensional TOSS scale. Further, first and second-order confirmatory factor analysis is used to confirm the construct reliability and model adequacy of TOSS-R. The data has been collected from 314 women organic farmers from four selected districts (Nayagarh, Khurda, Boudh, and Ganjam) of Odisha based on 2022 records from the Directorate of Horticulture.

Findings

The results showed that the TOSS-R is showing better model adequacy compared (CMIN/df = 2.031, RMSEA = 0.073, SRMR = 0.064) to the earlier TOSS scale (CMIN/df = 2.697, RMSEA = 0.840, SRMR = 0.096). Further in the analysis of the overall empowerment, the TOSS-R scale determined that 49.60% of women are highly empowered, 44.58% are moderately, and 5.73% are less empowered.

Practical implications

The study emphasizes that the policymakers should establish a local capacity to promote gender equity in land titling such that women irrigators will be officially labelled as “farmers”, thereby bringing them under government scheme that is exclusively granted to women farmers.

Originality/value

The study’s novelty lies in a more comprehensive model of determining the empowerment of women organic farmers which has the capability to determine the constraints of the women failing to be empowered in the farming sector.

Peer review

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-09-2023-0693

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衡量奥迪沙邦有机农业中的妇女赋权情况：对经修订的声明观察总分量表（TOSS-R）的批判性思考

目的本研究旨在通过陈述-修订版量表（TOSS-R）的总观察得分来调查农村女性有机农户的赋权水平。此外，还采用了一阶和二阶确认性因子分析来确认 TOSS-R 的构造信度和模型充分性。根据园艺局 2022 年的记录，从奥迪沙邦四个选定的地区（纳亚加尔、库尔达、布德和甘贾姆）收集了 314 名女性有机农户的数据。研究结果表明，与早期的 TOSS 量表（CMIN/df = 2.697，RMSEA = 0.840，SRR = 0.096）相比，TOSS-R 显示出更好的模型适当性（CMIN/df = 2.031，RMSEA = 0.073，SRR = 0.064）。在对总体赋权情况的进一步分析中，TOSS-R 量表确定 49.60% 的妇女赋权程度较高，44.58% 的妇女赋权程度一般，5.73% 的妇女赋权程度较低。这项研究强调，政策制定者应在当地建立促进土地所有权方面性别平等的能力，以便将女性灌溉者正式标记为 "农民"，从而将她们纳入政府专门授予女性农民的计划中。原创性/价值本研究的新颖之处在于采用了一种更全面的模式来确定有机农妇的赋权情况，这种模式能够确定妇女在农业部门未能获得赋权的制约因素。同行评议本文的同行评议历史见：https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-09-2023-0693。

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5.30%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Social Economics publishes original and peer-reviewed theoretical and empirical research in the field of social economics. Its focus is on the examination and analysis of the interaction between economic activity, individuals and communities. Social economics focuses on the relationship between social action and economies, and examines how social and ethical norms influence the behaviour of economic agents. It is inescapably normative and focuses on needs, rather than wants or preferences, and considers the wellbeing of individuals in communities: it accepts the possibility of a common good rather than conceiving of communities as merely aggregates of individual preferences and the problems of economics as coordinating those preferences. Therefore, contributions are invited which analyse and discuss well-being, welfare, the nature of the good society, governance and social policy, social and economic justice, social and individual economic motivation, and the associated normative and ethical implications of these as they express themselves in, for example, issues concerning the environment, labour and work, education, the role of families and women, inequality and poverty, health and human development.