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Au cours des 15 dernières années, les femmes qui travaillent en milieu agricole au Québec se sont regroupées au sein d'une fédération et ont revendiqué une reconnaissance légale. Un programme du ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation leur a facilité l'accès à la propriété grâce à une subvention d'établissement. Les résultats obtenus dans une vaste enquête menée en 1992, permettent aujourd'hui de faire le point sur le travail des femmes en agriculture au Québec, d'en tracer le portrait et de juger de l'efficacité du programme d'accès à la propriété.

Résumé Cet article montre les évolutions qui ont touché la situation et la place des femmes en agriculture, en France, dans un contexte de transformations majeures du monde agricole. De plus en plus de femmes obtiennent des statuts autonomes au sein de la profession agricole, grâce à l'acquisition de compétences professionnelles. Par ailleurs, l'essor des activités de service dans le monde rural (tourisme, accueil, insertion) leur permet de consolider une identité sociale individuelle, qui a toujours été difficile à trouver dans un mode de production agricole fondé sur la famille et le couple. Si du côté des couples agricoles, les rapports sociaux de sexe évoluent, de nombreuses résistances à l'égalité des sexes perdurent au niveau de la profession, qui a du mal à se défaire de son image masculiniste. Ainsi, à l'instar des femmes d'autres catégories sociales, de façon plus silencieuse, les agricultrices françaises sont inscrites dans un mouvement de lutte pour l'égalité des sexes.

L'article montre le décalage entre la forte participation des femmes aux différentes étapes de la révolution tunisienne, d'une part, et leur éviction d'un certain nombre de débats publics, d'autre part. Il propose de nouveaux modèles pour comprendre les diverses formes de mobilisation et développe une nouvelle approche des mouvements sociaux dans les politiques du conflit. Partant de la critique du modèle habermassien de l'espace public par Nancy Frazer, l'article décrit quelques mouvements militants de femmes en Tunisie, « arènes subalternes », en s'appuyant sur des enquêtes menées en 2013-2014 et en montrant leurs particularités par rapport à d'autres formes d'engagement.

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 reports conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of what we know now about gender gaps in agriculture. The authors explore linkages among gender, assets, and agricultural development projects. They examine the current state of land tenure; womens access to markets, financial services, and rural employment; and gender differences in social capital and in vulnerability to poor nutrition and health. The book also looks at trends in agricultural research, development, and extension systems and in womens participation in research. The opening section summarizes the main messages of the 2011 FAO report and reviews how gender has been conceptualized in agriculture and how these concepts have changed in the past three decades. Topics covered include how demographic conditions such as household structure, age, and migration have affected gender relations. Part 2 of the book focuses on data and methods for understanding gender issues in agriculture. The authors look at changing institutional approaches to addressing gender and assess past and present methods for effectively collecting and analyzing data on gender roles and relations in agriculture. Part 3 gathers background studies that document gender gaps in assets and key agricultural inputs. Part 4 looks beyond the farm to observe and analyze gender roles in markets and value chains. Part 5 proposes ways that agricultural research, development, and extension systems can be made more responsive to the needs of both male and female farmers. The research findings collected here provide, in non-technical language, an overview of a pressing problem in agricultural development the disadvantages and inequities that burden women farmers as well as ways to understand and address this problem. Published with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

"Women have always been skilled at feeding their families, and historians have often studied the work of rural women on farms and in their homes. However, the stories of women who worked as agricultural researchers, producers, marketers, educators, and community organizers have not been told until now. Taking readers into the rural hinterlands of the rapidly urbanizing societies of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, the essays in Women in Agriculture tell the stories of a cadre of professional women who acted to bridge the growing rift between those who grew food and those who only consumed it. The contributors to Women in Agriculture examine how rural women's expertise was disseminated and how it was received. Through these essays, readers meet subversively lunching ladies in Ontario and African American home demonstration agents in Arkansas. The rural sociologist Emily Hoag made a place for women at the US Department of Agriculture as well as in agricultural research. Canadian rural reformer Madge Watt, British radio broadcaster Mabel Webb, and US ethnobotanists Mary Warren English and Frances Densmore developed new ways to share and preserve rural women's knowledge. These and the other women profiled here updated and expanded rural women's roles in shaping their communities and the broader society. Their stories broaden and complicate the history of agriculture in North America and Western Europe"--The publisher

This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture. This book identify crisis which a woman faces in the field of agriculture as a farmer. The book shares unsung stories of women farmers who are bringing change at the grassroots. It puts together the positive developments experienced by the experts, researchers, professional while working for and with women farmers, to highlight the challenges to bring equity in agriculture. Women in agriculture often lack identity where either they are recognized as farmers wife or a farm labourer. Women farmers who contribute 60 percent in to farm practices like sowing, transplanting, fertilizer application, weeding, harvesting, winnowing are merely recognised and provided an equal level playing field. Women are also found participating in the various forms of processing and marketing of agriculture produce, along with the cultivation but system has failed to protect their rights and offer them a platform to voice their concerns. This book shares the process, challenges, experience, strategy from the narrative of progressive women farmers so as to highlight and understand what it takes to bring changes for achieving the goals of an equitable farming ecosystems. The book is a relevant reading material for students, researchers, professionals and policy advocates in agriculture and gender research.