About 80% of the rural community (of which 50% are women) of the country’s over 100 million people, and contributing 49.1% to GDP in Ethiopia. This review paper discusses the gender base analysis of teff adoption and its influencing factors in Ethiopia. For this review article different secondary data sources were used from journal articles, books and other published and unpublished documents were used. In the developing country including Ethiopia, gender makes differences on the adoption of teff. Women paly a great role to the agricultural sector in Ethiopia. However, there are several socio-economic, socio-cultural, religious and political factors affect women’s level of adoption of teff in the country, and they are not produces as an expected and face constraints that reduce their productivity. Therefore, gender issue is needed to be focused by different stakeholders in order to facilitate agricultural development because of their production role.

Keywords: Adoption, Gender, Teff, Ethiopia