Author: Kathleen S. DaughertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Farm Women and the Rural Economic Crisis
Author: Kathleen S. DaughertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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Rural Women And State Policy
Author: Carmen Diana DeerePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000310531
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
First published in 1987. An evaluation of the decade, in conjunction with the 45th International Congress of Americanists, hosted by the University. of Los Andes in Bogotaì, Colombia, in July, 1985. This book grew out of a collaborative effort by North American, European, and Latin American researchers to synthesize what we have learned about the position of rural women in Latin America over the past decade.
American Dreams, Rural Realities
Author: Peggy F. BarlettPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807843994
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book draws on the stories and words of over a hundred farm families in an average county in Georgia's prime agricultural region to construct an account of the disaster years and their consequences.
All We Knew Was to Farm
Author: Melissa WalkerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801869242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a turning point in the struggle of upcountry women—forcing new choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life. Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm draws on interviews, archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change. Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations, adopting the roles of consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury—yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.
The Feminization of Agriculture?
Author: Carmen Diana DeerePublisher: Geneva : UNRISD
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The main trends associated with the economic crisis, neoliberal restructuring, and the growth of rural poverty rates in Latin America include a continued diversification of rural household income-generating strategies, an increase in the number of household members seeking off-farm employment, and the increased participation of rural women as both own-account and wage workers in the agricultural as well as non-agricultural sectors. While methodological problems persist in analysing changes in rural women's work over time, the dominant trend in the region over the past several decades has been towards the feminization of agriculture. The growth in women's agricultural wage employment has been concentrated in the non-traditional agro-export sector favoured under neoliberalism: specifically, in the production and packing of fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers for Northern markets, what now constitutes Latin America's leading agricultural export rubric. In many countries women and children make up half or more of the field labour for these crops, while women constitute the vast majority of the workers in the packing houses geared to the export market. Nonetheless, the characteristics of this employment, principally its temporary, seasonal and precarious nature, have made it difficult to capture quantitatively in national censuses and household surveys. The essay analyses the role of gender-segmented labour markets in increasing the demand for female labour, as well as the significance of women's increased participation in wage labour for female empowerment. There is also evidence, stronger for some countries than others, of a feminization of smallholder production, as growing numbers of rural women become the principal farmers-that is, own-account workers in agriculture. This phenomenon is associated with an increase in the proportion of rural female household heads; male absence from the farm, in turn related to growing male migration and/or employment in off-farm pursuits; and the decreased viability of peasant farming under neoliberalism. There is little question that the principal factor driving these trends is the need for rural households to diversify their livelihoods. The combination of growing land shortage, economic crises and unfavourable policies for domestic agriculture has meant that peasant households can no longer sustain themselves on the basis of agricultural production alone. The response to the crisis of peasant agriculture has been an increase in the number of rural household members pursuing off-farm activities. Whether these are male, female, or include both genders, depends on a myriad of factors, with household composition and the stage of the domestic cycle, and the dynamism and gendered nature of local, regional and international labour markets, being among the most important.
Farming is in Our Blood
Author: Paul C. RosenblattPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Rural South In Crisis
Author: Lionel J BeaulieuPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book captures the views of students of rural America on the serious state of affaire in rural South areas and on the strategies for stimulating improvements in the well-being of rural Southerners. It spurs policymakers, leaders, and rural residents to redress the ills of the rural South.
The Status and Contributions of Women in the Agricultural Sector and the Rural Economy
Author: Rose Nelson-FylePublisher: United Nations Afric D Planning
ISBN:
Category : Women in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Rural Women
Author: A. Laxmi DeviPublisher: Northern Book Centre
ISBN: 9788185119205
Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Role of rural women is a set of expectations held from her. What is expected from a rural woman and how well she fulfils them are the two inseparable questions to be analysed and understood in the study of roles? Role expectation and role performance of a rural woman has been of paramount importance in fulfilling the goals of economic oriented rural development programmes. Her role expectations have been studied to find out her role performance and role prediction in Farm and Home Management in this book.
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