Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information technology
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Improving Resource Management Through Rural Women's Use of New Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information technology
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Assessing the Benefits of Rural Women's Participation in Natural Resource Management Research and Capacity-building
Author: Centro Internacional de Agricultura TropicalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women in conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The State of World Rural Poverty
Author: Idriss JazairyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737544
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. Accounting for about 90% of global poverty, rural poverty, through transmigration, is also a main contributor to urban poverty. It is in the rural areas of the world where poverty is most severe in human terms, where the hunger, hopelessness, hardship, and despair commonly associated with entrenched poverty are most pronounced, where basic health services, sanitation, educational opportunities, and other common amenities are most lacking. The alleviation of rural poverty is therefore tantamount to the alleviation of global poverty in its entirety. The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.
Limits to Productivity
Author: Ilsa SchumacherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Research paper on obstacles to rural women's access to agricultural credit and technology in developing countries - covers constraints such as the dual economy, sexual division of labour, insufficient knowhow and ineffective demand by women, programme planning focus of governments, bilateral aid and international organizations, choice of technology not adapted to women's needs, their participation in credit systems, etc., and includes technology and credit policy recommendations. Bibliography pp. 60 to 65.
Better resource management through the adoption of new technologies
Author: Margriet F. CaswellRunning Out of Time: The Reduction of women's work burden in agricultural production
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251088101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women’s time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women’s access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about the control women have over their time, given their major contributions to agriculture. It also look s into the available labour-saving technologies, practices and services that can support women to better address the demands derived from the domestic and productive spheres and improve their well-being. The reader is presented with an overview of successfully-tested technologies, services and resource management practices in the context of water, energy, information and communication. The findings elaborated in this paper feed a set of recommendations provided for policy makers and development partners. A gender-transformative approach at community and household level is suggested as a way forward to promote women’s increased control over the allocation of their time.
Women's Role in Forest Resource Management
Author: Brigitte van der BorgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Gender and Natural Resource Management
Author: Bernadette P. ResurreccionPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136565051
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested element of social relationships. It offers a critical feminist perspective on gender relations and natural resource management in the context of contemporary policy concerns: decentralized governance, the elimination of poverty and themainstreaming of gender. Through a combination of strong conceptual argument and empirical material from a variety of political economic and ecological contexts (including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam), the book examines gender-environment linkages within shifting configurations of resource access and control. The book will serve as a core resource for students of gender studies and natural resource management, and as supplementary reading for a wide range of disciplines including geography, environmental studies, sociology and development. It also provides a stimulating collection of ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender issues within their practice in sustainable development. Published with IDRC.
Technologies to Sustain Tropical Forest Resources
Author: Ergonomics for Improved Productivity
Author: Mohammad MuzammilPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811622299
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
p="" style="" This highly informative and carefully presented book focuses on the fields of ergonomics/human factors and discusses the future of the community vis-à-vis health problems, productivity, aging, etc. Ergonomic intercession must be seen in light of its effect on productivity because ergonomic solutions will improve productivity as the reduction of environmental stressors, awkward postures and efforts lead to a reduction in task execution time. The book provides promising evidence that the field of ergonomics continues to thrive and develop deeper insights into how work environments, products and systems can be developed to meet needs, demands and limitations of humans and how they can support productivity improvements. Some of the themes covered are anthropometry and workplace design, biomechanics and modelling in ergonomics, cognitive and environmental ergonomics, ergonomic intervention and productivity, ergonomics in transport, mining, agriculture and forestry, health systems, work physiology and sports ergonomics, etc. This book is beneficial to academicians, policymakers and the industry alike. ^