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Title: | Differences in Earning, Labour Inputs, Decision-Making and Perception of Development between Farm and Market: A Case Study in Zambia |
Authors: | Due, Jean M. White-Jones, Marcia |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Economic Review |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 92-103 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
Geographic terms: | Zambia Central Africa |
Subjects: | women farmers household income market women women's work Labor and Employment Economics and Trade Women's Issues Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology economics Cultural Roles agriculture Economics, Commerce Women employees Agricultural laborers Agricultural income |
Abstract: | This study comparing farm and market women grew out of a larger study documenting the labour inputs of males and females in Zambian small-scale farming (farms of 25 acres or less) and the contributions of females to household incomes. At the same time as the 112 farm families were interviewed, 30 market women in the three nearest market towns were selected to compare their labour inputs, earnings, perceptions of development and decisionmaking regarding cash income earned. The sample was drawn in three areas of Zambia differentiated by level of agricultural development in 1982: Mpika in Northern Province, Mumbwa in Central Province, and Mazabuka in Southern Province. It became clear that the rural population is not homogeneous. Significant differences were found in the average earnings and hours worked at their professions and at household tasks between farm and market women within the same culture and areas. There were not, however, significant differences in women's ability to make decisions on their own or their husband's cash earnings. Farm and market women also differed in ways in which economic development could assist them. Farm women wanted improvements in farming (labour-saving devices, higher farm prices, better inputs), credit, clinics and wells. Market women wanted improved markets, credit, cooperatives for women, schools and clinics. Each group saw evidence of economic development having occurred in their areas during the last ten years. Bibliogr., notes. |