1st Edition

Agriculture, Women, And Land The African Experience

Edited By Jean Davison Copyright 1988
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book examines gender relations to land relations that are crucial to formulating policies through which African women's food producing capabilities can be advanced. It addresses the need to document historical changes in land tenure practices that have influenced women's household production.

    1. Land and Women's Agricultural Production: The Context, 2. Land Tenure, Agriculture, and Gender in Guinea-Bissau, 3. Struggles Over Land and Crops in an Irrigated Rice Scheme: The Gambia, 4. Returns to Women's Labour in Cash Crop Production: Tobacco in lgboho, Oyo State, Nigeria, 5. Land and the Household Economy: Women Farmers of the Grassfields Today, 6. Land, Gender, and Food Security in Eastern Kivu, Zaire, 7. Losing Ground-Women and Agriculture on Sudan's Irrigated Schemes: Lessons from a Blue Nile Village, 8. Who Owns What? Land Registration and Tensions in Gender Relations of Production in Kenya, 9. ·A Woman Is Like a Field: Women's Strategies for Land Access in Swaziland, 10. Land Tenure, Gender Relations, and Agricultural Production: The Case of Zimbabwe's Peasantry, 11. Land Redistribution in Mozambique and Its Effects on Women's Collective Production: Case Studies from Sofala Province, 12. Where Can We Go from Here? Recommendations for Action