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Women food producers : potential power for combating world hunger
Although women are the primary food producers around the world, various factors - the advent of cash cropping as a means of development, underrepresentation in official statistics of women as food producers (and a related lack of attention by planners), and insensitivity to women"s needs in agricultural development programs - keep existing productive resources from reaching women, who farm largely at the subsistence level.
Jaquette, Jane S. · 1970
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Abstract
Examples from Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Belize, India, and Java illustrate the negative impact often resulting from development programs. Two approaches to increasing women"s productivity - removing the barriers to resources and improving food storage, processing, and marketing as well as production - are offered, and the reports by three international agencies which support such solutions are cited. Concluding sections recount efforts in the past decade to actualize women"s food production potential and suggest four ways in which the individual can promote attention to women in development. Lists of 24 books, articles, and resource guides (1970-84) and of resource centers, films and cassettes, and organizations with development education programs are appended.
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