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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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