[PDF] Women Farmers Of India eBook

Author : Raghunathan, Kalyani
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
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Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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This research was undertaken as part of the Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS) study, and was aimed at understanding ways to improve agricultural practices among women farmers in India. Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers’ access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of crops and improved methods of cultivation. In India, however, the coverage of agricultural extension workers and the relevance of extension advice is poor. We investigate whether a women’s self-help group platform could be an effective way of improving access to information, women’s empowerment in agriculture, agricultural practices, and production diversity. We use cross-sectional data on close to 1000 women from 5 states in India, and employ nearest-neighbor matching models to match self-help group (SHG) and non-SHG women along a range of observed characteristics. We find that participation in an SHG increases women’s access to information and their participation in some agricultural decisions, but has limited impact on agricultural practices or outcomes, possibly due to financial constraints, social norms, and women’s domestic responsibilities. SHGs need to go beyond provision of information to changing the dynamics around women’s participation in agriculture to effectively translate knowledge into practice.

Author : Maria Mies
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Rural women
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In the wake of the Green Revolution, the rapid modernisation of agricultural production has brought about changes in the economic and social position of poor rural Indian women. In this monograph Maria Mies and her two assistants draw on their close interaction with women in three villages of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh to discuss the relationships between farm mechanisation, the displacement of men's labour, the growing involvement of poor women in casual agricultural labour and the prevailing perception of women as dependants, and to demonstrate that the integration of women int.

Author : Lisa Palmer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1250084202

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The U.N. predicts the Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years, documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap.

Author : Ranajit Kumar Samanta
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788185880860

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The volume consists of nine chapters covering relevant issues on women in farming and its allied disciplines projecting multifaceted experiences, authored by several experts, academics and practitioners on the field from the countries like, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands and India.

Author : Sugandha Munshi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2023-06-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811969787

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This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture. This book identify crisis which a woman faces in the field of agriculture as a farmer. The book shares unsung stories of women farmers who are bringing change at the grassroots. It puts together the positive developments experienced by the experts, researchers, professional while working for and with women farmers, to highlight the challenges to bring equity in agriculture. Women in agriculture often lack identity where either they are recognized as farmer’s wife or a farm labourer. Women farmers who contribute 60 percent in to farm practices like sowing, transplanting, fertilizer application, weeding, harvesting, winnowing are merely recognised and provided an equal level playing field. Women are also found participating in the various forms of processing and marketing of agriculture produce, along with the cultivation but system has failed to protect their rights and offer them a platform to voice their concerns. This book shares the process, challenges, experience, strategy from the narrative of progressive women farmers so as to highlight and understand what it takes to bring changes for achieving the goals of an equitable farming ecosystems. The book is a relevant reading material for students, researchers, professionals and policy advocates in agriculture and gender research.