Women's Work in Third World Agriculture

Women's Work in Third World Agriculture
Author: Ruth Dixon-Mueller
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1985
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789221051077

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This study provides clear guidelines for measuring the contribution of women to agricultural production in developing societies, which should be of interest to those involved in research and development planning.

Women and the Environment in the Third World

Women and the Environment in the Third World
Author: Irene Dankelman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134046014

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'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the first and hardest hit by environmental mismanagement, yet they are neither consulted nor taken into account by development strategists. lrene Dankelman and Joan Davidson provide a clear account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. They also describe the lack of response from international organizations. With the help of well-documented case studies they describe the ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges. Originally published in 1988

Women of the Third World

Women of the Third World
Author: Jeanne Bisilliat
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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The authors examine the broad spectrum of women's work in rural and urban areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia. The focus is on the mechanism by which women's labor is inexorably drawn into an international market based on the division of labor

Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures

Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures
Author: Anita Spring
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781555878696

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In this volume, case studies reveal that farm women in Africa, Asia and Latin America are rapidly becoming more than subsistence producers. It explores the societal and domestic changes brought about as women move to positions as wage labourers, contract growers and farm owners.

Running Out of Time: The Reduction of women's work burden in agricultural production

Running Out of Time: The Reduction of women's work burden in agricultural production
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9251088101

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Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women’s time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises questions about the adequacy of women’s access to technologies, services and infrastructure and about the control women have over their time, given their major contributions to agriculture. It also look s into the available labour-saving technologies, practices and services that can support women to better address the demands derived from the domestic and productive spheres and improve their well-being. The reader is presented with an overview of successfully-tested technologies, services and resource management practices in the context of water, energy, information and communication. The findings elaborated in this paper feed a set of recommendations provided for policy makers and development partners. A gender-transformative approach at community and household level is suggested as a way forward to promote women’s increased control over the allocation of their time.

Gender in Agriculture

Gender in Agriculture
Author: Agnes R. Quisumbing
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 940178616X

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of what we know now about gender gaps in agriculture.

Empowering Women

Empowering Women
Author: Ranajit Kumar Samanta
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788175330900

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The significant roles played and huge contributions made by women in agriculture and rural development throughout the developing nations have been well recognized and documented by various international development agencies, national government, development administrators, academicians and social science researchers alike, in the recent past. The book is expected to be of great help to the students, scholars, policy makers, development administrators and technology transfer personnel in the fields of agricultural and rural development throughout the globe.