Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains

Much of the earliest work on “women in development” focused on agriculture. The baseline was set by the pioneering work of Ester Boserup in Woman’s Role in Economic Development (1970), who compiled then-current knowledge to make women’s contributions to rural economies visible. She used those data t...

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Autores principales: Rubin, Deborah, Boonabaana, Brenda, Manfre, Cristina
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146513
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Boonabaana, Brenda
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description Much of the earliest work on “women in development” focused on agriculture. The baseline was set by the pioneering work of Ester Boserup in Woman’s Role in Economic Development (1970), who compiled then-current knowledge to make women’s contributions to rural economies visible. She used those data to argue for recognizing women’s work in agriculture. Research quickly followed that raised the profile of women’s work not only in production and processing for home consumption but also in growing, processing, and trading different market-oriented crops. In Africa south of the Sahara, the focus of this chapter, studies looked at women’s engagement in “agricultural commercialization” across different production and marketing pathways, among them contract farming (Carney 1994; Sørensen 1990; von Bulow and Sørensen 1993; Wilson 2000);2 formal and informal wage labor (Mbilinyi and Semakafu 1995; Dolan and Sorby 2003); women traders (Clark 1994; Morris and Saul 2000; Saul 1981); and
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spelling CGSpace1465132025-11-06T03:55:38Z Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains Rubin, Deborah Boonabaana, Brenda Manfre, Cristina gender gender equality supply chains agricultural policies poverty rural areas women Much of the earliest work on “women in development” focused on agriculture. The baseline was set by the pioneering work of Ester Boserup in Woman’s Role in Economic Development (1970), who compiled then-current knowledge to make women’s contributions to rural economies visible. She used those data to argue for recognizing women’s work in agriculture. Research quickly followed that raised the profile of women’s work not only in production and processing for home consumption but also in growing, processing, and trading different market-oriented crops. In Africa south of the Sahara, the focus of this chapter, studies looked at women’s engagement in “agricultural commercialization” across different production and marketing pathways, among them contract farming (Carney 1994; Sørensen 1990; von Bulow and Sørensen 1993; Wilson 2000);2 formal and informal wage labor (Mbilinyi and Semakafu 1995; Dolan and Sorby 2003); women traders (Clark 1994; Morris and Saul 2000; Saul 1981); and 2019-10-31 2024-06-21T09:07:20Z 2024-06-21T09:07:20Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146513 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293649 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Rubin, Deborah; Boonabaana, Brenda; and Manfre, Cristina. 2019. Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains. In 2019 Annual trends and outlook report: Gender equality in rural Africa: From commitments to outcomes, eds. Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; and Njuki, Jemimah. Chapter 6, Pp. 83-96. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146513
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Rubin, Deborah
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Manfre, Cristina
Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
title Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
title_full Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
title_fullStr Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
title_full_unstemmed Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
title_short Building an inclusive agriculture: Strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
title_sort building an inclusive agriculture strengthening gender equality in agricultural value chains
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gender equality
supply chains
agricultural policies
poverty
rural areas
women
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146513
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