Author: Kodwo EwusiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural processing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Improved Appropriate Technologies for Rural Women
Author: Kodwo EwusiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural processing
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Technology and Rural Women
Author: Iftikhar AhmedPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000648761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology, empirical and sectoral overviews, and country case studies, it draws together the literature to clarify the issues and the policies. The book begins with a conceptual overview and analyses the applicability of traditional theories of technological change and impact on gender based distributional questions. It proceeds to compare the African and Asian experience, examines the African situation regionally, and then as a set of four country case studies. The authors find that the imperfections of rural factor markets have contributed to women’s concentration in labour intensive sectors, marked by low productivity and low returns. Biases in the agrarian structure and the extension services are largely responsible for the Institutionalisation of discrimination against women. Finally, the volume identifies the social, economic, and technical constraints to the diffusion of technologies relevant to rural women’s tasks. In the final chapter the book’s analysis is further refined and extended, so that its conclusions to both theory and policy making are clearly brought out, and areas of future research identified. This book is an essential read for students and scholars of labour economics, women’s studies and economics in general.
Appropriate Technology for Rural Women
Author: Siriporn SkrobanekImproved Technologies for Rural Women : Problems and Prospects in Sierra Leone
Author: Yvette StevensPublisher:
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Category : Rural women
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Selected Bibliography on Appropriate Technologies for Rural Women and Families
Author: Lauren LissnerPublisher:
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Improved Village Technology for Women's Activities
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organisation
ISBN: 9789221038184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This manual is based on field work undertaken in the project countries (Ghana and Sierra Leone), and benefited additionally from the results of a field visit to Senegal. Its special features are: (a) the target audience consists of government institutions, rural extension services, financial institutions, women's small-scale processing enterprises and manufacturing firms; (b) it focuses on four important processing activities - of cassava, vegetable oil, coconut and fish - undertaken by rural women in West Africa; (c) it covers the range of technologies available in the subregion; (d) it makes a quantitative comparison of the performance of both traditional and improved technologies and provides information on the advantages and disadvantages of each; (e) it describes the basic design features of improved and traditional tools and equipment, materials and parts required for their fabrication; and (f) it provides a list of suppliers of such equipment. The practical value of the manual is enhanced by the inclusion of information on practical possibilities for the utilization of agricultural wastes and the by-products of women's processing activities.
Rural Women
Author: Elizabeth O'KellyPublisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Monograph describing the role and activities of rural women in rural development in Africa and Asia - suggests some simple improvements through intermediate technology at household and village levels, and discusses development of cottage industries and rural cooperatives for woman workers, and includes a directory of organizations concerned with development. Bibliography pp. 79 to 84 and photographs.
Reaching Rural Women with Information on Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appropriate technology
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Role of Appropriate Technology in Reducing Women's Workload in Agricultural Activities in Tanzania
Author: Rosebud V. KurwijilaPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The paper presents a brief review of the role of women in African agricultural production in general and Tanzania in particular. The common feature is that African women produce food using labor-demanding production tools such as the hand-hoe. A survey of the use of appropriate technology devices in one locality in Tanzania revealed that rural women were either generally not aware of the possibilities that existed or they considered the available technologies too expensive or inappropriate to their needs. To remedy the situation the paper suggests the setting up of Rural Women Training Centres and increasing the involvement of women professionals in the design and dissemination of appropriate technologies for women, and asserts that these improvements would make significant progress in the productivity of rural women in Tanzania through the use of improved agricultural production and crop processing implements and devices.
Appropriate Technology for Rural Women Project
Author: Organization of American StatesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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