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Book Synopsis Raising the Productivity of Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Katrine Anderson Saito
Download or read book Raising the Productivity of Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Katrine Anderson Saito and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper 230. Based on four country studies and extensive household surveys, this paper documents the breakdown of traditional farming systems in Sub- Saharan Africa and its implications for the role of women in agriculture.
Book Synopsis Raising the Productivity of Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Katrine Anderson Saito
Download or read book Raising the Productivity of Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Katrine Anderson Saito and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa by : Katrine Anderson Saito
Download or read book Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa written by Katrine Anderson Saito and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operational guidelines on how to provide cost- effective agricultural extension services to women farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Book Synopsis Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Nancy L. Adams
Download or read book Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Nancy L. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers by : Katrine Anderson Saito
Download or read book Developing Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers written by Katrine Anderson Saito and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite rapid advances in agricultural technology and heavy expenditures by governments and donors on agricultural extension, as much as a fifth of mankind - almost all in developing countries - still goes hungry. Extension programs can increase agricultural productivity and rural incomes by bridging the gap between new technical knowledge and a farmer's practices, but research and extension services usually assume that farmers are men. In fact, women play a critical role in a wide range of agricultural activities, and as men move into off-farm employment, women's importance to agriculture is growing. The specific needs and problems of women farmers must be addressed in the design and implementation of agricultural projects. This paper provides an overview of women farmers and their production systems, presents a framework for analysis of gender issues, suggests interventions and project components, and sets out guidelines for designing and modifying agricultural service projects.
Book Synopsis Women Farmers' Participation in Agriculture and Extension in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Susan M. Masagasi
Download or read book Women Farmers' Participation in Agriculture and Extension in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Susan M. Masagasi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Increasing African Women's Productivity by :
Download or read book Increasing African Women's Productivity written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa by : Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt
Download or read book Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa written by Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men
Book Synopsis Developing agricultural extension for women farmers by : Katrine A. Saito
Download or read book Developing agricultural extension for women farmers written by Katrine A. Saito and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience in Sub Saharan Africa by : Yazidhi Bamutaze
Download or read book Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience in Sub Saharan Africa written by Yazidhi Bamutaze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses emerging contexts of agricultural and ecosystem resilience in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary technological advances that have influenced African livelihoods. In six sections, the book addresses the sustainable development goals to mitigate the negative impacts on agricultural productivity brought about by climate change in Africa. Some of the challenges assessed include soil degradation, land use changes, natural resource mismanagement, declining crop productivity, and economic stagnation. This book will be of interest to researchers, NGOs, and development organizations. Section 1 focuses on climate risk management in tropical Africa. Section 2 addresses the water-ecosystem-agriculture nexus, and identifies the best strategies for sustainable water use. Section 3 introduces Information Communication Technology (ICT), and how it can be used for ecosystem and human resilience to improve quality of life in communities. Section 4 discusses the science and policies of transformative agriculture, including challenges facing crop production and management. Section 5 addresses landscape processes, human security, and governance of agro-ecosystems. Section 6 concludes the book with chapters uniquely covering the gender dynamics of agricultural, ecosystem, and livelihood resilience.
Book Synopsis All in Good Time by : Rachel Grellier
Download or read book All in Good Time written by Rachel Grellier and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography of many aspects of women's activities in agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa; most entries have extensive abstracts.
Book Synopsis Women Farmers and Food Issues in Africa by : Anita Spring
Download or read book Women Farmers and Food Issues in Africa written by Anita Spring and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the major aspects of African women's contribution to food and cash crop production and offers some suggestions to improve their participation in intensification in the smallholder sector. An examination of the sexual division of labor shows that so-called "traditional" patterns have given way to expediency with women involved in all aspects of production either routinely or when male labor is unavailable due to a change in marital status or to out-migration. The semi-autonomous nature of women within the household and the diverse types of households are detailed in order to show the diverse responsibilities of men and women for the procurement of food and other commodities. Although some women earn a good living from agriculture and can assure family food security and/or generate surplus sales, most women tend to be among the lower resource farmers. This is not because they are deficient in farming skills, but because they lack access to labor, land, credit, training, and mechanization, especially in years of agricultural intensification. Stereotypes about women's place often prevent planners and implementors of development projects from incorporating women into plans and programs. Furthermore, agricultural intensification may increase the time women have to spend in farming without providing adequate remuneration. In order to include women in agricultural intensification, certain solutions are given such as disaggregating data by gender, recognizing intrahoushold dynamics in farming research and extension, studying farming roles, reorienting training and extension programs, mainstreaming income generation projects, intensifying capitalization schemes, and researching the farming enterprises associated with women.
Book Synopsis Women’s Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets by : Ms.Christine Dieterich
Download or read book Women’s Opportunities and Challenges in Sub-Saharan African Job Markets written by Ms.Christine Dieterich and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As labor market data is scarce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper uses household survey data to analyze the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market and its welfare implications for five SSA countries in multinomial logit models with propensity score matching method. The analysis confirms that education opens up opportunities for women to escape agricultural feminization and engage in formal wage employment, but these opportunities diminish when women marry—a disadvantage increasingly relevant when countries develop and urbanization progresses. Opening a household enterprise offers women an alternative avenue to escape low-paid jobs in agriculture, but the increase in per capita income is lower than male-owned household enterprises. These findings underline that improving women’s education needs to be supported by measures to allow married women to keep their jobs in the wage sector.
Download or read book Time and Money written by Eliana Carranza and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gap between male and female farmers in agricultural production, both in terms of output and productivity, has been largely documented across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Gender Innovation Lab has produced a body of evidence, including the Levelling the Field report and the Cost of the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity report, that identified constraints women farmers face, determined the size and cost of the gap in agricultural productivity, and offered promising policy options and emerging new ideas to test. One of the key findings from the levelling the field report is that labor presents the main barrier to achieving gender equality in productivity. Across the six profiled African countries, authors observe a combination of women deploying fewer household male laborers on their plots, male laborers generating lower returns for female farmers relative to male farmers, and female farmers facing challenges in hiring effective outside labor. In this policy brief, we investigate and provide explanations for female farmers' labor constraints through a mixed-methods study within the cotton sector of Côte d'Ivoire, as part of the Côte d'Ivoire Agriculture Sector Support Project's efforts to increase female participation in cotton production. We first quantify the gender gap in labor usage, then look at the drivers of this gap and how they constrain women's cotton production and productivity, and finally offer recommendations for policymakers. Several key policy considerations emerge based on our analysis, relating to labor financing and gender norms. Adopting solutions to ease female farmers' labor constraints will not only increase their productivity, but also boost economic growth as an increasing share of the population becomes involved in the cultivation of higher-value crops.
Book Synopsis Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Abebe Shimeles
Download or read book Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Abebe Shimeles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This open access collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected paper provides valuable insights for improved policy making and defines relevant strategic priorities on Africa’s sustainable transformation process, which is in line with the international development agenda. Although agriculture remains the main source of income for Africa’s population, the sector is rain-fed subjecting it to the vagaries of weather and climate change. This volume demonstrates the rationale of developing a competitive, inclusive and sustainable agribusiness sector for Africa’s food security and structural transformation. From the impact of Bioenergy crop adoption and Drought Index Insurance to Agro-Industrialization, this volume is important reading for individual researchers, academic associations and professional bodies interested in African agricultural development.
Download or read book Levelling the Field written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing recognition of agriculture's potential to spur growth and reduce poverty in Africa. Agriculture accounts for one-third of the continent's gross domestic product (GDP), and two-thirds of its citizens rely on the sector for their incomes. Investments in agriculture will hence not only improve productivity and the continent's ability to feed a growing population, but will also lift families out of poverty. Over 90 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's extreme poor are engaged in agriculture, and growth originating in the sector is 2-4 times more effective at directly reducing poverty than growth originating in other sectors. Yet agriculture in Africa has not fulfilled its potential, suffering from a lack of investment and insufficient attention from policy-makers. A key hindrance to agricultural development and broader growth is a wide and pervasive gender gap in agricultural productivity. Women comprise nearly half of the labor force in Africa's agriculture sector, and more than half in several countries, but on the whole they produce less per hectare than men. Existing evidence from small-scale studies across the continent documents the numerous disadvantages that women face in accessing the same resources, training, markets and opportunities as men. They also face ingrained norms and institutional barriers that further widen the gap. Tackling the barriers that hold back the productivity of female farmers could both enhance gender equality and usher in broader economic growth. The African Union has declared 2014 to be the 'year of agriculture and food security', bringing much needed attention to the sector's potential to transform the continent. This is an opportunity not only to revitalize the agriculture sector, but to rally African governments and development organizations to commit to concrete policy action to redress the inequalities within the sector, and in so doing to reap greater rewards from future investments.
Book Synopsis Women Farmers in Africa by : Lucy E. Creevey
Download or read book Women Farmers in Africa written by Lucy E. Creevey and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1986-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference papers, rural women, farmers, economic role in farming and rural development, Mali, Sahel - sexual division of labour in food production, development projects covering female extension services, agricultural training, womens organization, functional literacy, rural cooperative organisation, choice of technologys, and the Lorena fuel saving stove. Bibliography, photographs, statistical tables.