Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Unheard Being Heard: Women Farmers: An Introduction -- 1.1 Roads less Travelled -- 1.2 Women Are the Backbones of Agriculture! -- 1.3 Women Roles in Agriculture: A Key Driver for Feeding a World Population of 9.3 Billion by 2050 -- 1.4 Missing on Women Data Is Missing on Reality -- 1.5 Rising Hopes: One Step Ahead as Farmers! -- 1.6 Walk the Talk -- References -- Chapter 2: Mainstreaming Women Farmers: Innovations and Approach -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Level Playing Field for Women in Agriculture! Challenges -- 2.3 An Invisible Entity: A Woman Farmer! -- 2.3.1 Inclusive Extension System: Key for Sustainable Change -- 2.4 Farm Mechanization: Need for Gendered Greasing! -- 2.4.1 Self Help Group as the Conduit for Improved Extension System: A Silent Revolution for Women Farmers Identity, Awareness,... -- 2.5 Making Invisible Visible: Unavoidable Need for Second Green Revolution! -- References -- Chapter 3: Women Farmers or the Farmers´ Wives: Unveiling the Negotiated Gender Roles -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Data Source and Methodology -- 3.3 Results -- 3.3.1 Media Habits and Banking -- 3.3.2 Gendered Relations and Negotiated Roles -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Women Farmers, Constraints and Policy Around Them to Harness Maximum Benefit -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Status of Agriculture of India -- 4.2.1 GDP Share of Indian Agriculture -- 4.2.2 Employment in Indian Agriculture -- 4.2.3 Work Participation of Women in Indian Agriculture -- 4.3 Status of Women in Indian Agriculture -- 4.4 Constraint and Problem Faced by Women -- 4.4.1 Gender Inequalities -- 4.4.2 Land Ownership/Accessibility Issues -- 4.4.3 Access to Finance and Agricultural Inputs -- 4.4.4 Socio-Economic Factors, Participation in Farm Management.

This photo essay captures the personal tragedy of women farmers in a large-scale and an ongoing agrarian crisis in India that has claimed over 300,000 lives by way of farmer suicides since 1995.

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.

(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references and index. ; (Statement of Responsibility) edited by Christina H. Gladwin.

"Females are farming in record numbers. Covering everything from business planning to tool use to integrating family into farm operations, Soil Sisters is a comprehensive blueprint for women who dream of bringing their vision of agricultural entrepreneurship to life. This unique guide blends inspiring stories of successful female farmers with practical information and resources for women launching new farming enterprises."--

In Sub‐Saharan Africa, women's farm labor is highest in Ethiopia. Using focus group discussions with 240 farmers and other research tools, our USAID‐funded Feed the Future Innovation for the Reduction of Post‐Harvest Loss—Ethiopia study explores the sources of (dis)empowerment of rural farmers in Ethiopia. We find that women are disempowered across all five domains of empowerment due to cultural factors, despite government and financial institution policy changes. Women with low education tend to engage in low risk/return farming practices, including growing less nutritious crops, thereby undermining nutritional security of the household. Our findings confirm that women's role increases to as much as 80 percent in post‐harvest. Poor storage technologies resulting in fungal/pest infections and chemicals in stored grains pose serious health risks for women, and poor women consume grains with up to 50 percent damage. Food security and development policies should empower women and promote improved technologies—particularly targeting women—to reduce grain losses and women's work burden while mitigating health risks.

India has relatively much higher global hunger index than that in China. In last 25 years India could improve it from 31.2 in 1990 to 17.8 in 2014 as against 13.6 to 5.4 in China. Now when in September 2015 India has committed to achieve the United Nations General Assembly's mandated Sustainable Development Goal-2 targets to "end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture" by 2030, it is necessary to analyze the strength and weaknesses of India's agriculture. Potential for developing agriculture in India has been significant. However, agriculture is predominantly dominated by a larger number of small, marginal & tenant farmers, oral lessees, share croppers, agricultural laborers and those residing in desert, drought-prone, hilly and tribal areas in particular. It is in this context, this article attempts to highlight the immediate need to strengthen the Information and Communication Technology [ICT] to enable small, marginal and women farmers in particular in the light of measures already initiated by the government, NABARD and the private sector in developing farmer-friendly portals as an integral part of digital India project to accelerate farm productivity, production and profitability

According to most Central American government agencies and nongovernmental organizations concerned with agriculture, small-scale farmers are men. A spate of new studies in recent years dispels this myth, proving beyond doubt that women throughout the region have played a long-standing role in agriculture as permanent, not temporary, workers. One of the more dramatic findings has been the substantial rise in the number of poor women heads of household in the countryside. (Grassroots/DÜI)

A new crop: women farmers in a shifting agriculture -- Tilling the soil for change: claiming the farmer identity -- Sowing the seeds of change: innovative paths to land, labor and capital -- Reaping a new harvest: women farmers re-defining agriculture, community, and sustainability -- Constructing a new table: women farmers negotiate agriculture institutions and organizations, creating new agricultural networks -- From the ground up: a feminist agrifood systems theory.