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Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

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Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

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Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations book

Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

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Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations book

Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia
Edited ByCarolyn E. Sachs
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 4 June 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429427381
Pages 274
eBook ISBN 9780429427381
Subjects Area Studies, Development Studies, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Sachs, C.E. (Ed.). (2019). Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations: Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429427381

ABSTRACT

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

In many regions of the world, agricultural transformations are occurring through increased commodification, new value-chains, technological innovations introduced by CGIAR and other development interventions, declining viability of small-holder agriculture livelihoods, male out-migration from rural areas, and climate change. This book addresses how these changes involve fluctuations in gendered labour and decision making on farms and in agriculture and, in many places, have resulted in the feminization of agriculture at a time of unprecedented climate change. Chapters uncover both how women successfully innovate and how they remain disadvantaged when compared to men in terms of access to land, labor, capital and markets that would enable them to succeed in agriculture. Building on case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book interrogates how new agricultural innovations from agricultural research, new technologies and value chains reshape gender relations.

Using new methodological approaches and intersectional analyses, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agriculture, gender, sustainable development and environmental studies more generally.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part Part 1|7 pages

Overview

chapter 1|5 pages

Gender, agriculture and agrarian transformations

ByCarolyn E. Sachs

part Part 2|63 pages

Gender and agriculture research

chapter 2|24 pages

The implications of gender relations for modern approaches to crop improvement and plant breeding

ByJacqueline A. Ashby, Vivian Polar

chapter 3|22 pages

“Change in the Making”

1970s and 1980s building stones to gender integration in CGIAR agricultural research
ByMargreet van der Burg

chapter 4|15 pages

How to do gender research? Feminist perspectives on gender research in agriculture

ByAnn R. Tickamyer, Kathleen Sexsmith

part Part 3|53 pages

Intersectionality

chapter 5|18 pages

Intersectionality at the gender–agriculture nexus

Relational life histories and additive sex-disaggregated indices
ByStephanie Leder, Carolyn E. Sachs

chapter 6|18 pages

Diversity of small-scale maize farmers in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

Integrating gender into farm typologies
ByTania Carolina Camacho-Villa, Luis Barba-Escoto, Juan Burgueño-Ferreira, Ann R. Tickamyer, Leland Glenna, Santiago López-Ridaura

chapter 7|15 pages

“A Bird Locked in a Cage”

Hmong young women's lives after marriage in northern Vietnam
ByNozomi Kawarazuka, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Vu Xuan Thai, Pham Huu Thuong

part Part 4|53 pages

Shifting gender relations in agriculture, fisheries and livestock

chapter 8|18 pages

Defeminizing effect

How improved dairy technology adoption affected women's and men's time allocation and milk income share in Ethiopia
ByBirhanu Megersa Lenjiso

chapter 9|15 pages

Implementing “gender equity” in livestock interventions

Caught between patriarchy and paternalism?
ByKatie Tavenner, Todd A. Crane

chapter 10|18 pages

Implications of agricultural innovation on gender norms

Gender approaches in aquatic agriculture in Bangladesh
ByLemlem Aregu, Afrina Choudhury, Surendran Rajaratnam, Margreet van der Burg, Cynthia McDougall

part Part 5|73 pages

Gender, labor and decision making

chapter 11|20 pages

Permanently seasonal workers

Gendered labor relations and working conditions of asparagus agricultural workers in Ica, Perú
ByMaría del Rosario Castro Bernardini

chapter 12|18 pages

Gender equality and trees on farms

Considerations for implementation of climate-smart agriculture
ByTatiana Gumucio, Diksha Arora, Jennifer Twyman, Ann R. Tickamyer, Mónica Clavijo

chapter 13|18 pages

Kinship structures, gender and groundnut productivity in Malawi

ByEdward Bikketi, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Leif Jensen, Edna Johnny

chapter 14|15 pages

Changes in participation of women in rice value chains

Implications for control over decision making
BySujata Ganguly, Leif Jensen, Samarendu Mohanty, Sugandha Munshi, Arindam Samaddar, Swati Nayak, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil
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