Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Enthält 11 Beiträge
Beschreibung:
This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men
Cover; Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa: Longitudinal Perspectives from Six Countries; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1: Perspectives on Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Introduction; Theoretical Perspectives; Challenges to the Pro-Poor Growth Model; Gender and Farm Productivity; Diversifying Within and Out of Agriculture; Gender and Non-farm Diversification; Dual Exclusion?; Research Design; Quantitative Data Collection
Conclusions4: Gender and Rural Livelihoods: Agricultural Commercialization and Farm/Non-Farm Diversification; Introduction; Theoretical Points of Departure; Agricultural Commercialization and Gender; Complementarities and Commercialization; Rural Livelihoods, Gender, and Non-Farm/Farm Interaction; Data Sources, Reliability, and Analysis; Agricultural Commercialization and Gender; Maize; Commercialization tendencies; Markets and prices; Non-Grain Food Crops; Non-Food Cash Crops; Cash Incomes, Gender, and Diversification; Commercialization and Livelihoods by Type of Female-Headed Household
Distributional Aspects of CommercializationIntra-Household Income Generation; Regional Perspectives on Livelihood Diversification and Gender; Conclusions; 5: Agrarian Change and Structural Transformation: Drivers and Distributional Outcomes; Introduction; Agrarian Change Driven by Structural Transformation; Previous Research; Data Description; Hierarchical Modelling and Multi-Level Panel Survey Data; Modelling Techniques; Descriptive Data and Hypotheses; Independent Variable Selection and Formulation of Hypotheses; Modelling Results; Model 1: Intensification
Production, Commercialization, and Income Diversification by Gender and Income GroupGender Differences; Diversification by Income Group; Conclusion; 3: Assets, Gender, and Rural Livelihoods; Introduction; Gender, Assets, and Rural Livelihoods; Agricultural Assets; Land; Landholders, land rights, and security of tenure; Size of landholdings; Labour; Access to Water and Irrigation; Other Non-Land Assets; Improved seed; Agricultural techniques; Livestock; Non-Agricultural Assets; Non-Farm Assets that Can Be Used for Income Generation; Housing Standard, Other Consumer Durables, and Savings
The SurveyQualitative Data Collection; Who Are the Female-Headed Households?; Analytical Methods and Definitions of Key Terms Used in the Book; Structure of the Book; 2: African Smallholder Farmers on the Move: Farm and Non-Farm Trends for Six Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2002-15; Introduction; Increasing Farm Sizes: Relatively Stable Crop Portfolios; Production and Area Productivity; Maize; Rice; Yield Gaps; Technology Adoption; Commercialization and Market Integration; Non-Farm Linkages and Diversification