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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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