Author: Jennie DeyPublisher:
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Category : Women rice workers
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Women in Rice Farming Systems with a Focus on Africa
Author: Jennie DeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women rice workers
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Women in Rice-farming Systems
Author: Jennie DeyWomen in African Rice Farming Systems
Author: Jennifer DeyWomen in Rice Farming in West Africa
Author: Dunstan S. C. SpencerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Women Farmers and Food Issues in Africa
Author: Anita SpringPublisher:
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Category : Food supply
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This paper reviews the major aspects of African women's contribution to food and cash crop production and offers some suggestions to improve their participation in intensification in the smallholder sector. An examination of the sexual division of labor shows that so-called "traditional" patterns have given way to expediency with women involved in all aspects of production either routinely or when male labor is unavailable due to a change in marital status or to out-migration. The semi-autonomous nature of women within the household and the diverse types of households are detailed in order to show the diverse responsibilities of men and women for the procurement of food and other commodities. Although some women earn a good living from agriculture and can assure family food security and/or generate surplus sales, most women tend to be among the lower resource farmers. This is not because they are deficient in farming skills, but because they lack access to labor, land, credit, training, and mechanization, especially in years of agricultural intensification. Stereotypes about women's place often prevent planners and implementors of development projects from incorporating women into plans and programs. Furthermore, agricultural intensification may increase the time women have to spend in farming without providing adequate remuneration. In order to include women in agricultural intensification, certain solutions are given such as disaggregating data by gender, recognizing intrahoushold dynamics in farming research and extension, studying farming roles, reorienting training and extension programs, mainstreaming income generation projects, intensifying capitalization schemes, and researching the farming enterprises associated with women.
Women in Rice Farming
Author: Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 0566007215
Category : Rice
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Women in Rice Farming Systems
Author: International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, FilipinasPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Liberia's Upland Rice Farming Systems
Author: Charles Raymond BertschPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa
Author: Agnes Andersson DjurfeldtPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192519964
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa uses a longitudinal cross-country comparative approach to contribute to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on unique household level data collected in six African countries since 2002, it addresses the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men. Despite a growing interest in smallholder agriculture in Africa, this interest has not been matched by the research on the subject. While recent policies focus on reducing poverty through encouraging smallholder agriculture, there are few studies showing how livelihoods have changed since this time, and especially how such changes may have affected male and female headed households differently. Moreover, agriculture is often viewed in isolation from other types of income generating opportunities, like small scale trading. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa looks at how livelihoods have changed over time and how this has affected the relationship between agricultural and non-agricultural sources of livelihoods. In general, women have much poorer access to agricultural sources of income, and for this reason the interplay between farm and non-farm sources of income is especially important to analyse. Providing suggestions for more inclusive policies related to rural development, this edited volume outlines current weaknesses and illustrates potential opportunities for change. It offers a nuanced alternative to the current dominance of structural transformation narratives of agricultural change through adding insights from gender studies as well as village-level studies of agrarian development. It positions change in relation to broader livelihood dynamics outside the farm sector and contextualises them nationally and regionally to provide a necessary analytical adaption to the unfolding empirical realities of rural Africa.
Women in Rice Farming Systems
Author: International Rice Research InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Women agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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