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2. Bridging the gender gap in forest stewardship: facilitating programs for women landowners
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Koshollek, Alanna (author), Thostenson, Katy (author), and Shaw, Bret (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-04
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12314
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- vol. 58, num. 2
- Notes:
- 9 pages, Nationwide, women woodland owners are increasingly taking on the primary decision-making role for their land. In Wisconsin and beyond, most existing landowner outreach efforts target mixed-gender audiences. We explored how facilitation techniques can be incorporated into a women-centric workshop to increase women landowners' confidence, knowledge, and readiness to take action in forest stewardship. We highlight three core techniques Extension workshop developers can use to promote landowner learning and engagement: creating space for participant-driven open dialogue, generating opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, and enabling participants to receive personalized advice from professionals about their land.
3. Economic benefits of empowering women in agriculture: assumptions and evidence
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, C. Leigh (author), Reynolds, Travis W. (author), Biscaye, Pierre (author), Patwardhan, Vedavati (author), and Schmidt, Carly (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02
- Published:
- United States: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12256
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Development Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 57, No. 2
- Notes:
- 9 PAGES., Systematic reviews and meta-analyses generally focus on intervention impacts or outcomes. Less common, however, are reviews of the assumptions and theory underlying the pathways between intervention and outcome. We consider the hypothetical case for interventions to empower female farmers, either by prioritising women for new investments or re-allocating existing resources. Empowerment is defined as increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income. We hypothesise two avenues through which productivity or health benefits might arise: (i) eliminating female-male differences in, e.g. input access; or (ii) leveraging gendered risk, time, and social preferences leading women to differentially allocate resources. A review of evidence highlights the extent of support for the baseline, behaviour change, and economic benefit assumptions behind these hypothesised avenues. Findings suggest returns to investing in female farmers could be significant in various contexts but estimates of economic returns to empowering women in agriculture remain limited.
4. Economic benefits of empowering women in agriculture: assumptions and evidence
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Anderson, C. Leigh (author), Reynolds, Travis W. (author), Biscaye, Pierre (author), Patwardhan, Vedavati (author), and Schmidt, Carly (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02
- Published:
- United States: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12259
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Development Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 57 Issue 2
- Notes:
- 16 pages, Systematic reviews and meta-analyses generally focus on intervention impacts or outcomes. Less common, however, are reviews of the assumptions and theory underlying the pathways between intervention and outcome. We consider the hypothetical case for interventions to empower female farmers, either by prioritising women for new investments or re-allocating existing resources. Empowerment is defined as increased women's decision-making authority related to agricultural resources, management and production, and income. We hypothesise two avenues through which productivity or health benefits might arise: (i) eliminating female-male differences in, e.g. input access; or (ii) leveraging gendered risk, time, and social preferences leading women to differentially allocate resources. A review of evidence highlights the extent of support for the baseline, behaviour change, and economic benefit assumptions behind these hypothesised avenues. Findings suggest returns to investing in female farmers could be significant in various contexts but estimates of economic returns to empowering women in agriculture remain limited.
5. Selling together: the benefits of cooperatives to women honey producers in ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Serra, Renata (author) and Davidson, Kelly A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-19
- Published:
- United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12370
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 72, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 22 pages, Smallholder farmers in developing countries encounter multiple barriers in access to inputs and technology, which prevent them from reaping the benefits from market participation. Women farmers face additional constraints due to gender norms that further limit their engagement in productive activities. While collective action has been shown to improve access to markets and economic outcomes for farmers overall, the evidence on the effects of cooperative membership for women smallholders remains limited. We investigate empirically the economic benefits of collective action for women farmers in the honey sector in Ethiopia. Relying on a rich data set on women honey producers, both cooperative members and non-members, we evaluate the effects of belonging to a cooperative on three outcome variables through coarsened exact matching and regression analysis. Our results indicate that cooperative membership significantly increases the market price and the production quantity and, while the average effect on the share of product marketed is statistically insignificant, significant differences emerge for women with given characteristics. These results are shown to be robust to a number of tests that address biases from selection on observables and unobservables. An analysis of the heterogeneous effects of household membership in multiple groups finds that membership of self-help groups or farmer associations amplifies the positive outcomes from belonging to a formal cooperative. Finally, qualitative findings derived from the same communities indicate self-reported improvements in agency and self-esteem among women members, thus reinforcing the importance of the quantitative findings.
6. The intersection of gender, media, and policy: a qualitative analysis on Thai newspaper coverage of women in agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gilley, Morgan A. Richardson (author), Roberts, Richie (author), Blackburn, J. Joey (author), and Stair, Kristin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-04
- Published:
- USA: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12944
- Journal Title:
- Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
- Journal Title Details:
- V.30, Iss.1
- Notes:
- 21 pages, Women empowerment and gender equality have been found to be statistically significant and positive predictors of global agricultural development. Therefore, reducing gender disparities can encourage economic progress and growth in developing nations. As such, determining effective ways to stimulate social progress and women’s empowerment has emerged as a critical need. One strategy used to raise the public’s consciousness about gendered issues in Thailand has been through mass media. In response, this study aimed to (1) determine to what extent Thailand’s newspaper coverage focused on topics related to women and the agricultural industry; and (2) describe how women in agriculture have been portrayed in newspaper coverage since the introduction of Thailand 4.0’s policy in 2016. Using a qualitative content analysis of Thailand’s newspaper coverage of women in the agricultural sector, four themes emerged: (1) economic policy implications for Thailand’s agricultural system; (2) human rights; (3) women entrepreneurship and leadership; and (4) agricultural development. Therefore, this study concluded that newspaper coverage of women in agriculture was diverse and conflicting – a finding not previously reported. The findings also revealed that women in agriculture have been underrepresented in newspaper publications historically. Moving forward, we provided critical implications for how future research, theory, and practice can depict women in agriculture more positively in the newspaper media.
7. Video in the village
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stuart, Sara (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 197 Document Number: D09563
- Journal Title:
- Development Communication Report
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 : 7-8
- Notes:
- Delmar Hatesohl Collection
8. Women farmer's participation and empowerment to support family food self sufficiency
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Suraningsih, Maya Safrina (author), Hubeis, Aida Vitayala S. (author), Sadono, Dwi (author), Susanto, Djoko (author), and Saleh, Amiruddin (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-12-30
- Published:
- Indonesia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08775
- Journal Title:
- Mimbar
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(2) : 319-329