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Title: | Agricultural Credit Policy, Bureaucratic Decision-Making and the Subordination of Rural Women in the Development Process: Some Observations on the Kawinga Project, Malawi |
Author: | Kaunda, Jonathan Mayuyuka |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 413-430 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | agricultural credit agricultural projects agricultural policy female-headed households women small farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Women's Issues Politics and Government Development and Technology Cultural Roles economics agriculture Sex Roles |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636888 |
Abstract: | This paper identifies the nature of interactions between the bureaucracy and the peasantry, particularly women, in the Kawinga Rural Development Programme in Malawi. It argues that the subordination of rural women must be explained as part and parcel of the whole process of rural differentiation in Malawi. The paper is based on a social survey conducted in 1986 among civil servants and smallholder farmers. The Kawinga Rural Development Programme is one of the five Rural Development Programmes under the Liwonde Agricultural Development Division, which, in turn, is one of the eight Agricultural Development Divisions in the National Rural Development Programme. The research shows that policymaking and, to a less extent, plan formulation are the preserve of higher authorities at the Liwonde Agricultural Development Division Management Unit and at the National Rural Development Programme headquarters in the capital. The majority of the smallholder farms, notably the poor female-headed households, are not able to benefit from the rural development strategy that emphasizes commercialization based on high levels of production and productivity. Although the objectives of the Kawinga Rural Development Programme are quite egalitarian, the exclusion of the majority of women from the programme's credit scheme and the project's decisionmaking processes perpetuates their subordination. Ref. |