Gender roles in agriculture
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- Ensuring female farmers involvement in agricultural extension
- ( C.R. Farnworth / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2012)
- In response to the persistent inequalities of women in farming despite decades of development assistance, Sida has initiated a thematic evaluation of how gender issues are tackled in Sida-supported ag...
- Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches
- ( Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR , 2012)
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This paper aims to analyse methods and approaches currently used within participatory plant breeding (PPB) with respect to gender issues and to draw out the implications of researchers’ exper...
- Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift
- ( R. Mehra;M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2008)
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New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing....
- Discrimination and food rights
- ( UN Human Rights Council , 2010)
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This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study c...
- The benefits of increasing women’s access to agricultural resources
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2011)
- Women account for a high proportion of farmers in many developing countries yet often have very little access to the resources they need to support their livelihoods, including land, livestock, techno...
- Food security and gender insights
- ( S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2012)
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This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s cr...
Do Malawian female maize-farmers receive their fair share of extension advice?
- ( R.A. Gilbert (ed);W.D. Sakala;T. Benson / African Studies Quarterly , 2002)
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A nationwide trial comparing legume cropping systems to fertilised and unfertilised maize controls was implemented in the 1998-99 cropping season. Complementarily, extension agents conducted a soci...
- Reviewing participatory mapping - what works and what doesn't
- ( J. Corbett / International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2009)
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Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local com...
Female land productivity in the Ethiopian highlands
- ( S. Holden;M. Bezabih / Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2008)
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There is a common view and belief that women are the ones that do the farming in Africa while the men do not work much. This paper seeks to find explanations to why land productivity is lower on la...
- Global food price surge: strategies to strengthen women adaptative capacity
- ( A. Quisumbing;R. Meinzen-Dick;L. Bassett / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008)
- This policy brief outlines the gender implications of the recent food price crisis and how it impacts on poor and vulnerable households. The report calls on decision makers to incorporate what is know...
