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Title:Women Farmers in Africa: Research and Institutional Action, 1972-1987
Author:Staudt, Kathleen A.ISNI
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.
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