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2. Can women's self‐help groups improve access to information, decision‐making, and agricultural practices? The Indian case
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Raghunathan, Kalyani (author), Kannan, Samyuktha (author), and Quisumbing, Agnes R. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: D10822
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal,, 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 (SHG) 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 1,000 women from five states in India and employ nearest‐neighbor matching models to match 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.
3. Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture in women farmers' voices: culture-centering gender and development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dutta, Mohan J. (author) and Thaker, Jagadish (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11906
- Journal Title:
- Communication Theory
- Journal Title Details:
- 30 : 126-148
- Notes:
- 23 pages, Via UI Library online subscription., Authors described issues and potentials addressed by poor women farmers in India through sanghams (cooperatives). Findings pointed toward the desire and need for communication sovereignty in resistance to patriarchal, expert-led concepts of privatization that discount their knowledge and their role in making decisions.
4. Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alvi, Muzna (author), Barooah, Prapti (author), Gupta, Shweta (author), and Saini, Smriti (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-01
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12415
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 188
- Notes:
- 8 pages, gender, women, extension systems, acces, cell phones, farmers, Nepal (Southern Asia), India (Southern Asia), COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access to reliable and timely agriculture information. Using panel phone survey data from India and Nepal, we study how women's access to agricultural extension was impacted by the lockdowns and its effect on agricultural productivity. We find that women's already low access to formal extension was reduced further, leading to an increased reliance on informal social networks. In both countries, nearly 50% farmers reported negative impacts on productivity due to inaccessibility of information during the lockdown. In India, we find that access to formal extension is mediated by crop type, geographic location and caste identity. We discuss ways in which extension systems in India and Nepal can be made more inclusive and resilient to future crisis, including by adapting group and community-based approaches to post-pandemic best practices.
5. ‘Communication sovereignty’ as resistance: strategies adopted by women farmers amid the agrarian crisis in India
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dutta, Mohan J. (author) and Thaker, Jagadish (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-04
- Published:
- India: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10354
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communication Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 47(1) : 24-46
- Notes:
- 23 pages., Via online journal., This study draws on a culturally centered collaboration with a community of dalit women farmers in South India who were organized in a cooperative in their collective resistance against the corporatization of agriculture. Situated in the backdrop of the epidemic of farmer suicides in the region, this manuscript examines how those at the margins of global neoliberal transformations symbolically and materially make sense of and resist these transformations. The voices of the women farmers disrupt the underlying neoliberal assumptions that undergird the importation of cash crop agriculture into a subsistence and community-centered farming culture. They depict the ways in which Western cash crop agriculture disrupts community, food security, local health care systems, and the unique gender relations. Moreover, the communication advocacy work carried out by the women seeks to transform agricultural policy through material interventions as alternative practices of agriculture that challenge the hegemony of cash-based individualized agriculture.