Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures : : Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries / / ed. by Anita Spring.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bossen, Laurel,; Clark, Gracia,; Gladwin, Christina H.,; Grossman, Lawrence S.,; Hamilton, Sarah,; Jefremovas, Villia,; Katz, Elizabeth,; Kevane, Michael,; Krieger, Judith,; Lockwood, Victoria S.,; McMillan, Della E.,; Price, Lisa Leimar,; Roos, Deborah L.,; Smith, Gwen,; Spring, Anita,; Stephen, Lynn,; Stone, Glenn Davis,; Stone, M. Priscilla,; Wilson, Alexandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Spring, Anita ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations and Innovations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.