Author: Brenda KleysenPublisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : es
Pages : 122
Book Description
Productoras de alimentos en 18 países de América Latina y el Caribe
Author: Brenda KleysenPublisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : es
Pages : 122
Book Description
Appendices Annual Report 1996
Author: The Growing Streangth of Rural Woman Micro-Entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Empowering Women
Author: Carmen Diana DeerePublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822972327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deeere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to womenÆs bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.
Productoras de Alimentos
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN: 9789290392422
Category : Rural women
Languages : es
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization
Author: Shahra RazaviPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135911215
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This volume addresses key issues and questions surrounding the debates about globalization and liberalization policies, including whether states have the capacity to remedy the social distress unleashed by liberalization and whether the proposed social policy reforms can redress gender-based inequalities in access to resources and power.
Revista AIBDA
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural libraries
Languages : es
Pages : 104
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Sustainable Development, Poverty and Gender, Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: The Feminization of Agriculture?
Author: Carmen Diana DeerePublisher: Geneva : UNRISD
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
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.