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Author : Beatrice Akua Duncan
Publisher : Friedrich-Ebert Foundation (GH)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women in Agriculture in Ghana written by Beatrice Akua Duncan and published by Friedrich-Ebert Foundation (GH). This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marie Maman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136513086
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Women in Agriculture written by Marie Maman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. In what ways have women contributed to agriculture? To what extent have scholars addressed these contributions in the professional literature? What has been the impact of gender in agricultural policy and economic development? What is the status of gender equity in the division of farm labor and in agricultural education? Such questions are raised by students and researchers worldwide who seek documentation which focuses on these vital topics. The purpose of this bibliography is, therefore, to synthesize this unique widely dispersed information in one volume, to assist researchers, faculty, and students in expediting the research process.
Author : Lambrecht, Isabel
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Changing gender roles in agriculture? Evidence from 20 years of data in Ghana written by Lambrecht, Isabel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when donors and governments are increasing efforts to mainstream gender in agriculture, it is critical to revisit long-standing wisdom about gender inequalities in agriculture to be able to more efficiently design and evaluate policy interventions. Many stylized facts about women in agriculture have been repeated for decades. Did nothing really change? Is some of this conventional wisdom simply maintained over time, or has it always been inaccurate? We use longitudinal data from Ghana to assess some of the facts and to evaluate whether gender patterns have changed over time. We focus on five main themes: land, cropping patterns, market participation, agricultural inputs, and employment. We add to the literature by showing new facts and evidence from more than 20 years. Results are varied and highlight the difficulty of making general statements about gender in agriculture.
Author : Bryan, Elizabeth
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention written by Bryan, Elizabeth and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and economic growth. Increasingly, researchers seek ways to measure women’s empowerment, trace the pathways through which women’s empowerment is achieved, and provide guidance for policymakers and practitioners aiming to facilitate women’s empowerment through their interventions. This paper explores local perceptions of empowerment in the Upper East Region of Ghana in the context of a small-scale irrigation intervention targeted to men and women farmers. Using data collected through qualitative interviews and focus groups, the paper traces the linkages between small-scale irrigation and aspects of women’s empowerment, identified as important to men and women farmers themselves. The relationship between the components of empowerment and small-scale irrigation are placed within a larger context of social change underlying these relationships. Finally, this paper explores the ways that the introduction of modern technologies for small-scale irrigation may contribute to women’s empowerment.
Author : Joan O. Amarteifio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Women in Agriculture in Ghana written by Joan O. Amarteifio and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agnes R. Quisumbing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 940178616X
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Gender in Agriculture written by Agnes R. Quisumbing and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Maria Carla Roncoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and Small-scale Farming in Ghana written by Maria Carla Roncoli and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper starts from the perspective of the international debate on Women in Development of the Seventies and focuses on a specific instance of this issue, that is, the implications of rural development for women in Ghana. The author examines the position of women in traditional societies with regard to their access to the means of productions and the changes brought about by the commoditization of the economy and the incorporation of such groups in the national society. The analysis points out that the process of "development" has negatively influenced women's opportunities for economic improvement and self-determination, and terminates with a recent example of the impact of planned "development" on women as small-scale farmers. This example is the MIDAS Project, implemented by USAID in Ghana between 1976 and 1981 for the development of small-scale agriculture, with particular emphasis on credit, fertilizer, improved seeds, small-farm system research, marketing and extension service.
Author : Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 9780855984212
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Women, Land and Agriculture written by Caroline Sweetman and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 1999 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors assert that women's contribution to global agricultural production for food and for profit continues to be largely unacknowledged and undervalued and that their ability to farm is constrained by lack of control over land, agricultural inputs, credit and other essential resources.
Author : Akua Opokua Britwum
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3737606307
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods: written by Akua Opokua Britwum and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the basis of women’s disempowerment and confirmed its location within agricultural production relations that granted women limited access to resources. Respondents recognised all the main dimensions of power: within, with, to and over. The restrictions of women’s empowerment to the provisioning role on condition that it did not usurp male power over women limited intervention’s ability to provide true empowerment for women. But signs of increasing transfer of women’s power within into group action and male acceptance of women’s expanding spheres of influence indicate that some grounds for true transformation in the future exists.
Author : Yokying, Phanwin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: Disappointing insights from Northern Ghana written by Yokying, Phanwin and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land provides the basis for food production and is an indispensable input for economic livelihoods in rural areas. Landownership is strongly associated with social and economic power, not only across communities and households, but also within households. The link between landownership and women’s empowerment has been relatively well documented in general, but not specifically in relation to agriculture. This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing how ownership of land is associated with agency and achievements in agriculture among female and male farmers in northern Ghana, a region transitioning from customary land tenure without individual ownership rights towards a more individualized and market-based tenure system. We use a recursive bivariate probit model and focus on eight different indicators in four distinct domains: decisions on agricultural cultivation, decisions on farm income, agricultural association membership, and time allocation. Our empirical estimates indicate that landownership is positively correlated with men’s and women’s agency in agriculture, namely in decisions on agricultural cultivation and membership in agricultural association. Yet, we also find that the gender gaps in participation in cultivation decisions, the use of agricultural earnings, and in agricultural workload continue to persist among those who own land. While the results underscore the importance of land as a resource that can enhance women’s agency, they also point out that policies aiming to solely advance land rights may not be sufficient to eradicate or even reduce gender inequality in agriculture.
Author : Martina Aruna Padmanabhan
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825863685
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Trying to Grow written by Martina Aruna Padmanabhan and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the negotiations at the inter- and intrafaces of knowledge and gender. It analyses the construction of gender and knowledge to reveal how innovations in agriculture either transform existing gender relations or unfold a transcending potential. The case studies on the cultivation of cowpeas, onions and soybeans by Dagombas and Kusasis show that supposedly gender-neutral agricultural innovations become contested fields when men and women are "Trying to Grow". The contextualisation and social connotation of a crop decides over women's participation in rural development. The book throws a fresh light on the management of agricultural knowledge.
Author : Joanna Bourke Martignoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100068816X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food written by Joanna Bourke Martignoni and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective. Agricultural commercialization, involving not only the shift to selling crops and buying inputs but also the commodification of land and labour, has always been controversial. Strategies for commercialization have often reinforced and exacerbated inequalities, been blind to gender differences and given rise to violations of the human rights to food, land, work and social security. While there is a body of evidence to trace these developments globally, impacts vary considerably in local contexts. This book systematically considers these dynamics in two countries, Cambodia and Ghana. Profoundly different in terms of their history and location, they provide the basis for fruitful comparisons because they both transitioned to democracy in the early 1990s, made agricultural development a priority, and adopted orthodox policies of commercialization to develop the sector. Chapters illustrate how commercialization processes are gendered, highlighting distinctive gender, ethnic and class dynamics in rural Ghana and Cambodia and the different outcomes these generate. They also show the ways in which food cultures are changing and the often-problematic impact of these changes on the safety and quality of food. Specific policies and legal norms are examined, with chapters addressing the development and implementation of frameworks on the right to food and land administration. Overall, the volume brings into relief multiple dimensions shaping the outcomes of processes of commercialization, including gender orders, food cultures, policy translation, national and sub-national policies, corporate investments and programmes, and formal and informal legal norms. In doing so, it offers insight not only on our case countries, but also provides proposals to advance rights-based research on food security. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food security, agricultural development and economics, gender, human rights and sustainable development.
Author : Cornelius Kuukaraa
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783846516904
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Strategies for Reaching Women Farmers with Agricultural Technologies written by Cornelius Kuukaraa and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is the main stay of the Ghanaian economy accounting for over 50% of the country's GDP. Most of the farmers are smallholders of whom women are the majority. To make agricultural technology accessible to all farmers, the government of Ghana established four agricultural colleges under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to train extension personnel who are then posted to the rural areas to assist farmers. Over the years the participation of women in the colleges has lagged grossly behind that of men. Moreover the training of the extension agents is technically oriented with no emphasis on how to reach female farmers. Indeed, the extension training curricula is not gender-responsive. The above factors have contributed to the neglect of women farmers by extension agents in the field with its adverse effects on the amount and variety of food produced in the country, and hence food insecurity. Reaching female farmers with extension messages may entail training the trainees to work with female farmers as well as training more women to be deployed to the field.
Author : Kweku Andah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Ghanaian Women in Agriculture written by Kweku Andah and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 925134972X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Involving women and youth in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems in Ghana written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and youth-led agri-enterprises (WYE) (which may also be operating as family businesses) in agricultural value chains have been identified as catalysts for rural transformation given their potential for creating employment and stimulating value addition both on and off-farm. Given that agriculture and food systems are likely to remain the key generators of employment in Ghana over the coming decades, and that 80% of all activities in the midstream of food value chain are undertaken by SMEs in Africa. It is very much necessary to generate the evidence to support the argument that family, women and youth-led agribusinesses have a key role to play in the rural transformation pathway underway in Ghana.
Author : Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research written by Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing recognition of the importance of women’s empowerment in its own right and for a range of development outcomes, but less understanding of what empowerment means to rural women and men. The challenge of measuring empowerment, particularly across cultures and contexts, is also garnering attention. This paper synthesizes qualitative research conducted conjointly with quantitative surveys, working with eight agricultural development projects in eight countries, to develop a project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). The qualitative research sought to identify emic meanings of “empowerment,” validate the domains and indicators of the quantitative index, provide greater understanding of the context of each project and of strategies for facilitating empowerment, and test a methodology for integrating emic perspectives of empowerment with standardized etic measures that allow for comparability across contexts.
Author : Miranda Greenstreet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Females in the Agricultural Labour Force and Nonformal Education for Rural Development in Ghana written by Miranda Greenstreet and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
