Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Change Under NeoliberalismShahra Razavi Kumarian Press, 2002 - 265 pages * Details the effects of structural adjustment policies imposed on agriculture, and their effect on gender relations within rural areas in the developing world * Empirically grounded case studies from India, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam Over the past ten years neoliberal policy shifts in rural development across the globe have reduced the role of government, consigning the costs of services to the rural poor themselves. But what are the gender effects of this change? The contributors unravel the ways in which economic and social structures, institutions, and policy outcomes are mediated by gender as a social relationship, and consider the degree to which a "diversified livelihoods strategy," touted as the means by which rural families are struggling to improve their standard of living, accurately describes what is taking place on the ground. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gender and the Expansion of Nontraditional Agricultural | 35 |
Land Reform and the Empowerment of Rural Women | 67 |
From Where Have All the Flowers Come? Women Workers | 93 |
Leaving the Rice Fields but Not the Countryside Gender Livelihoods Diversification and ProPoor Growth | 109 |
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access to credit access to land agrarian amount analysis Andhra Pradesh approach assets avocado borrowers capita income cash crops chapter constraints context contribution Cornwall credit unions diversification diversity economic ejido empowerment farmers farming female female-maintained financial sustainability food security gender division gender equality gender issues gender relations Gonve groups Guijt Hoang important increased inputs involved Kabeer Kampala Kebkabiya Kerala Kitanyatta labor market land reform land rights landless livelihood strategies loans maize male men’s microcredit microfinance programs mobilization needs neoliberal NGO staff NTAE off-farm activities participation participatory development Participatory Rural Appraisal percent of households Phu Loc political poor poorer poverty alleviation production project areas promotion regions repayment rice role rural women sector SHGs significant smallholders social South Africa suggests supply response survey tion Uganda UNRISD variables Vietnam villages voices wage labor well-being World Bank
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Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice Devaki Jain Limited preview - 2005 |