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2. 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.
3. Female consumers as agents of change for transforming the environmental sustainability landscape
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- D'Souza, Clare (author), Taghian, Mehdi (author), and Associate Professor Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Marketing, Plenty Road, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia Senior Lecturer Department of Marketing, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-12
- Published:
- USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08048
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Consumer Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 (3): 353-360
4. Gender, labor migration and changes in small-scale farming on vietnam's north-central coast
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kawarazuka, Nozomi (author), Duong, Tuan Minh (author), and Simelton, Elisabeth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Published:
- United States: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12258
- Journal Title:
- Critical Asian Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 52 Issue 4
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Drawing on the narratives of women and men who have domestic or international migration experiences, this study explores the gendered impacts of migration on small-scale farming in rural Ha Tinh province in Vietnam. The paper investigates men’s and women’s migration experiences, their influence on agricultural production, and impact on their livelihoods after migration. The findings show that households use various strategies to sustain agricultural production in the absence of some members. Women’s increased economic independence through labor migration has not necessarily lead to their increased management roles in agriculture, but they are increasingly challenging stereotypical images of rural women. While migration can be a catalyst for men to transform their livelihoods, it can also widen gaps in social and economic statuses among men.
5. Land, water, and food: Eco-cosmopolitan feminist praxis in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rahman, Shazia (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-05-19
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09780
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(2) : 187-201
6. Myths about the feminization of agriculture: Implications for global food security
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kawarazuka, Nozomi (author), Doss, Cheryl (author), Rozel Farnworth, Cathy (author), and Pyburn, Rhiannon (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06-01
- Published:
- lobal Food Security: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12540
- Journal Title Details:
- 33
- Notes:
- 8 pages, The term “feminization of agriculture” is used to describe changing labor markets that pull men out of agriculture, increasing women's roles. However, simplified understandings of this feminization persist as myths in the literature, limiting our understanding of the broader changes that affect food security. Through a review of literature, this paper analyses four myths: 1) feminization of agriculture is the predominant global trend in global agriculture; 2) women left behind are passive victims and not farmers; 3) feminization is bad for agriculture; and 4) women farmers all face similar challenges. The paper unravels each myth, reveals the complexity of gendered power dynamics in feminization trends, and discusses the implications of these for global food security.
7. Unsettled belonging in complex geopolitics: refugees, NGOs, and rural communities in northern Colorado
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hausermann, Heidi (author), Lundy, Morgan (author), Mitchell, Jill (author), Ipsen, Annabel (author), Zorn, Quentin (author), Vasquez-Romero, Karen (author), and Lynch, Riley DeMorrow (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-28
- Published:
- Switzerland: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13174
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- V.13, N.3
- Notes:
- 18 pages
8. book review: patricia hill collins: intersectionality as critical social theory
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Whitley, Hannah T. (author)
- Format:
- Book review
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09
- Published:
- United States: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12254
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 37, Iss. 3
- Notes:
- 2 pages, Moving beyond single-issue organizing, advocacy, and inquiry, intersectionality has become widely popular in academic and activist circles. Despite intersectional scholar/activists' best attempts to separate problems on the basis of factors like race, gender, sexuality, or class, Patricia Hill Collins cautions that "Intersectionality is one of those fields in which so many people like the idea of intersectionality itself and therefore think they understand the field as well" (4). Collins reasons that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. Placing intersectionality in dialogue with several theoretical traditions, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. "Without sustained self-reflection," Collins writes, "intersectionality will be unable to help anyone grapple with social change, including change within its own praxis" (6). Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory introduces and develops Collins' core concepts and guiding principles that demonstrate what it will take to develop intersectionality as a critical social theory.