Home Gardens in Nepal

Table 2: Decision making role (percent) on activities of home garden by eco site
Site Wealth Gender Vegetabl
e

Fruit

s

Medicina

l

Ornament

al

Fodder

/Forag

e

Livestoc

k

Tota

l

Male 45 59 47 31 53 46 47

Rich Female 53^405348 47 54^49

Childre

n 2 1 - 21 - - 4

Male 50 58 47 19 57 52 47

Mediu Female 50 49 49 43 43 46 47

m Childre

n -3 3 38 - 28

Male 50 76 90 36 58 49 60

Female 50 24 10 42 42 51 37

Gulmi

Poor Childre

n - - - 22 - - 4

Rupandeh
i

Male 34 37 25 17 33 41 31

Rich Female 65^597136 67 55^59

Childre

n 1 4 4 47 - 4 10

Male 45 48 40 23 55 48 43

Mediu Female 50 48 53 45 45 51 49

m Childre

n 5 4 7 32 - 1 8

Male 30 39 27 4 34 39 29

Female 69 61 73 71 64 61 67

Indigenou
s

Poor Childre

n 1- - 25 2 -5

Male 48 53 49 18 54 48 45

Rich Female 51^435146 46 52^48

Childre

n 1 4 - 36 - - 7

Male 45 51 45 26 48 54 45

Mediu Female 47 42 50 25 49 41 42

m Childre

n 87 5 49 3 513

Male 36 33 37 25 39 36 34

Female 48 46 43 39 41 44 44

Migrants

Poor

Childre

n 16 21 20 36 20 20 22

Access to and control of resources

Access of resources means the freedom or permission to use the resource and control of
resources means the power to decide whether and how a resource is used, how it could be
allocated. In this study resources include land, labour (ones own, family and hired), capital
goods, including tools and livestock for production, food, storage facilities, training; other
inputs, including seed, fertilizers and pesticides; cash, knowledge on seed selection,
planting, medicinal plants and market /transportation means. From the study it is evident that
both male and female have access to and control over land but male has greater access to
and control than female in both eco-sites and ethnicity (Table 3 and Table 4).