Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures : : Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries / / ed. by Anita Spring.
Case studies reveal that, despite development policies designed to exclude them, women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are entering commercial agriculture—and often succeeding.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations and Innovations
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (419 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Commercialization and Women Farmers: Old Paradigms and New Themes -- PART 1 Gender Ideologies and Normative Effects on Commercial Endeavors -- 2 The Differential Effects of Capitalism and Patriarchy on Women Farmers’ Access to Markets in Cameroon -- 3 The Myth of the Masculine Market: Gender and Agricultural Commercialization in the Ecuadorean Andes -- 4 Extrahousehold Norms and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Gender in Sudan and Burkina Faso -- 5 Income, Productivity, and Evolving Gender Relations in Two Tahitian Islands -- 6 Women Are Good with Money: The Impact of Cash Cropping on Class Relations and Gender Ideology in Northern Luzon, the Philippines -- PART 2 Commercialization’s Effects on Household Food Security, Nutrition, and Food Distribution Systems -- 7 Kofyar Women Who Get Ahead: Incentives for Agricultural Commercialization in Nigeria -- 8 Women Farmers, Small Plots, and Changing Markets in China -- 9 The Fields Are Full of Gold: Women’s Marketing of Wild Foods from Rice Fields in Southeast Asia and the Impacts of Pesticides and Integrated Pest Management -- 10 Does Gender Matter for the Nutritional Consequences of Agricultural Commercialization? Intrahousehold Transfers, Food Acquisition, and Export Cropping in Guatemala -- 11 Entrepreneurs and Family Well-Being: Women’s Agricultural and Trading Strategies in Cameroon -- 12 Small-Scale Traders’ Key Role in Stabilizing and Diversifying Ghana’s Rural Communities and Livelihoods -- PART 3 New Technologies, Marketing Opportunities, and Organizational Structures -- 13 Men, Women, and Cotton: Contract Agriculture for Subsistence Farmers in Northern Ghana -- 14 Women and Export Agriculture: The Case of Banana Production on St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean -- 15 Agricultural Commercialization and Women Farmers in Kenya -- 16 The Importance of Gender Issues in Revitalizing Commercial Agriculture in Suriname -- 17 Sweet and Sour Grapes: The Struggles of Seasonal Women Workers in Chile -- 18 Epilogue: Next Steps -- Selected Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book |
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Summary: | Case studies reveal that, despite development policies designed to exclude them, women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are entering commercial agriculture—and often succeeding. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781685859244 9783110784251 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781685859244 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Anita Spring. |