Improving Women Farmers' Access to Extension Services

dc.contributor.authorJiggins, J.en
dc.contributor.authorSamanta, R. K.en
dc.contributor.authorOlawoye, J. E.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:09Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:09Zen
dc.date.issued1997en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractIn order to improve women's access to agriculture research and extension services we should first analyze women and men's participation in agriculture and their role in the household. Even though, in most developing countries, women's agriculture contribution is substantial, men remain the focal point of attention for policy-makers and extension services. Gender-analysis allows us to recognize the complexities of the social realities, which also include female-headed households, and a heterogeneous group of "rural women". There are constraints and opportunities for rural women and extension. The constraints include the legal and cultural status of women, and a male bias in the way agricultural services are designed and managed. To ensure a more effective system for rural women, the authors recommend, more gender-sensitive programs, gender disaggregated data, increased rural women's participation, equal access to resources and extension services, and situation-specific strategies.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3325en
dc.identifier4366en
dc.identifier.isbn92-5-104007-9en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67442en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherRome, Italy: FAOen
dc.relation.ispartofIn: Swanson B., R.P. Bentz, and A.J. Sofranko(eds.). Improving Agricultural Extension: A Reference Manual, Chapter 9en
dc.relation.urihttp://www.fao.org/docrep/W5830E/w5830e00.htmen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 1997 FAOen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectParticipatory processesen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectExtension serviceen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectRural womenen
dc.titleImproving Women Farmers' Access to Extension Servicesen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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