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Title: | Women Farmers in Africa: Research and Institutional Action, 1972-1987 |
Author: | Staudt, Kathleen A. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 567-582 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | research women farmers Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Women's Issues Bibliography/Research Labor and Employment Development and Technology agriculture organizations Sex Roles |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/485955 |
Abstract: | This article reviews issues and trends in the literature on African women farmers since 1972. It also considers the extent to which international and national policies and programmes have responded to research findings. The article furthermore highlights the changing nature of the discourse, a discourse which has become diverse, ranging from a focus on 'women farmers' to 'low-resource agriculturalists' and 'gender'. The voluminous research now available on women farmers has produced progressive official policies and impressive rhetoric in national and international agencies. Yet few dents have been made in the flow of and control over resources, which still largely benefit men. A major source of the problem is to be located in bureaucratic machinery and the State, institutions in which women farmers have little voice or power. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |