Gender roles in agriculture
What changes in agriculture and food production limit or create opportunities for women and men? What policy and practice is effective in supporting both women and men to benefit from and/or adapt to change?
Latest Documents
- Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
- C. Okali; L.O. Naess / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Full title: Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Creating Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation Policy Christine Okali and Lars Otto Naess May 2013 Attention to gender and cli...
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- Training guide supporting gender and climate change research in the agriculture and food security sectors
- S. Nelson / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural develop...
- Addressing the gender gap in agriculture: opportunities for collaboration in gender-responsive research
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2012
- This workshop report by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Gender and Agriculture Research Network identifies opportunities for cross programme collaboration to enhance CGIAR’s contribu...
- The Marital Immigrant. Land, and Agricultue: A Malawian Case Study
- P. Kishindo (ed) 2010
- The central and southern regions of Malawi predominantly follow matrilineal succession and inheritance and practice uxorilocal marriages. Women, rather than men, own the primary land rights. Colonial government officials and some Euro...
- Gender and Intra-Household Use of Fertilizers in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme
- E. Chirwa, P. Mvula, A. Dorward and M. Matita / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
- Working Paper 28 by Ephraim W. Chirwa, Peter M. Mvula, Andrew Dorward and Mirriam Matita December 2011 The Farm Input Subsidy Programme targets households for subsidized farm inputs, and usually it is the head of th...
- Gender Analysis: Engaging with Rural Development and Agricultural Policy Processes
- C. Okali / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
- Christine Okali January 2012 One of the great ironies of the last 40 years is that sub-Saharan Africa, a continent of ‘female farming par excellence’ (Boserup 1970), became populated, at least within much develop...
- Gender and Other Social Differences: Implications for FAC
- C. Okali / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011
- Christine Okali This paper addresses the challenge of integrating learning from four decades of gender and feminist research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) into the research of the Future Agricultures Consortium of the Institute ...
- Kenyan farmer groups can promote smallholder commercialisation in a gender equitable way
- E. Fischer; M. Qaim / AgEcon Search, 2012
- With the commercialisation of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender-disparities in access to productive resources. This paper believes that farmer collective action that intends to improve smal...
- Action research on the development of appropriate technology for mud crab (Scylla olivacea) culture through active participation of poor women in the impact zone of the Sundarban mangrove forest, Bangladesh
- Community Advancement And Research Initiatives, Bangladesh, 2012
- An action research on the development of appropriate technology for mud crab (Scylla olivacea) culture through active participation of six poor women was carried out in Mithakhali, Mongla, Bagerhat from August 2003 to July, 2004. Two ...
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