Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso

Women are acknowledged to be responsible for 70–80 percent of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. They operate within the institutional arrangements of the farm household, the single most important institution for agricultural production. This chapter illustrates why and how the ways in which pro...

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Autor principal: van Koppen, Barbara
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162468
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description Women are acknowledged to be responsible for 70–80 percent of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. They operate within the institutional arrangements of the farm household, the single most important institution for agricultural production. This chapter illustrates why and how the ways in which production and related resources rights are organized along gender lines are critical to smallholder agricultural growth in the continent. It also illustrates how policies and intervention programs based on an inadequate understanding of gender relations are bound to fail.
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spelling CGSpace1624682025-11-06T03:57:48Z Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso van Koppen, Barbara economic development agricultural development case studies natural resources management smallholders poverty alleviation economic growth gender women Women are acknowledged to be responsible for 70–80 percent of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. They operate within the institutional arrangements of the farm household, the single most important institution for agricultural production. This chapter illustrates why and how the ways in which production and related resources rights are organized along gender lines are critical to smallholder agricultural growth in the continent. It also illustrates how policies and intervention programs based on an inadequate understanding of gender relations are bound to fail. 2009 2024-11-21T10:03:11Z 2024-11-21T10:03:11Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162468 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896297814BK Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute van Koppen, Barbara. 2009. Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso. In Institutional economics perspectives on African agricultural development. ed. Johann F. Kirsten, Andrew R. Dorward, Colin Poulton, and Nick Vink. Chapter 18. Pp. 389-408. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162468
spellingShingle economic development
agricultural development
case studies
natural resources management
smallholders
poverty alleviation
economic growth
gender
women
van Koppen, Barbara
Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso
title Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso
title_full Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso
title_fullStr Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso
title_full_unstemmed Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso
title_short Gender, resource rights, and wetland rice productivity in Burkina Faso
title_sort gender resource rights and wetland rice productivity in burkina faso
topic economic development
agricultural development
case studies
natural resources management
smallholders
poverty alleviation
economic growth
gender
women
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162468
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