Allan, TumainiMassawe, Fatihiya Ally2025-07-112025-07-112023978 9987 449 92 7https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6811Book ChapterThe efforts to improve agriculture sector performance in Tanzania have not been very successful. The poor performance of the sector is attributed to among other factors, the ungendered process of agricultural technology development and dissemination. This review chapter contributes to the ongoing debate about gender responsiveness of agricultural technology dissemination approaches. While 40% of the agricultural Labour force in sub-Saharan Africa comes from women, it is unfortunate that most agricultural technologies and practices are masculine coupled with gender insensitive dissemination approaches. Therefore, improving agriculture sector productivity through technology adoption calls for the development of a gendered approach to technology dissemination. RIPAT is a participatory extension approach that aims to close the agricultural technology gap as a means of improving livelihoods and self-support among rural small-scale farmers. While empirical evidence demonstrates the approach to be successful in addressing among others the gap in agricultural technologies adoption by smallholder farmers it is not well documented on the extent to which the approach integrates the gender aspect in its dissemination of technologies and practices. The chapter is based on desk review where various gender studies were reviewed to establish gender sensitivity of the agricultural technology’s dissemination approaches. The RIPAT handbook manual was used as a guiding document for assessment. Results show basket of options through RIPAT approach has created fairness on access to inputs though options are gender influenced. Farmers adopting agricultural technologies have 17% probability to be food secure throughout the year and able to save and loan in their farming groups. However, across countries, the difference between men and women in productivity rates range between 4 – 25% due to multiple socio-economic factors. Active participation of female farmers in farmer groups may encourage disseminating gender responsive technologies. The RIPAT approach considers the household as a single unit where both members participate equally in decision-making while there are a lot of dynamics in the household decision making process. A gender-responsive approach suggests that equal benefit in agriculture starts from the design and application of technologies so that equity in access to resources and efficiency in productivity of both men and women can be recognized and addressed.enGender responsivenessTechnologyAgricultureRIPATTanzaniaBook chapter