Farm household livelihood strategies

Adesugba, Margaret; Oughton, Elizabeth; Shortall, Sally

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“…Or, farmers who retire with no family member to take over the farm, tend to be more reluctant to sell their property to a woman. Consequently, facing more difficulties to access land and resources, farms operated by women tend to be smaller and less economically viable than the ones owned by men (Shortall et al, 2017;Adesugba et al, 2020). In addition, despite their increased visibility, women in agriculture remained perceived as lacking an innate knowledge of agriculture or physical strength, stopping them to become skilled and complete farmers.…”

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“…However, existing professional groups do not necessarily address these issues, and they do not appear as safe and appropriate spaces for women to bring them up. In fact, research shows that agricultural extension training and services are mainly geared toward men (Adesugba et al, 2020). In Northern America or in Western Europe, for instance, women farmers find not only training inappropriate to their needs, but also feel unwelcome, overlooked and invisible (Sachs et al, 2016;Shortall et al, 2017;Le Brun et al, 2019).…”

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Involvement of women farmers in the agro-ecological transition and transformation of their work: Chronicle of the agricultural organization Groupe Femmes 44

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Annes

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Women professional organizations appear as a resource for women to foster change in power relations on their farm. In this manuscript, we explore to what extent participation in a non-mixed professional organization named Groupe Femmes 44 contributed to transformations of women farmers' work. Particularly, we question the role of women farmers in the transition of their farming system toward agroecological principles and the conditions of their empowerment within their farm which allows these transitions. Our results show that Groupe Femmes 44 represents a socio-professional environment allowing women farmers to discuss, to put words and find answers on technical, communicational, organization as well as social issues. It allowed some participants to discover the existence, the relevance, and the more ecological dimension of self-sufficient and autonomous systems. Therefore, it stood as a key resource to foster professional transition toward these systems. For the women who were already involved in such systems, Groupe Femmes 44 contributes to the transition toward more equitable systems by questioning work organization and gender inequality.

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Involvement of women farmers in the agro-ecological transition and transformation of their work: Chronicle of the agricultural organization Groupe Femmes 44

Serpossian

Coquil

Annes

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…This is a global phenomenon. Despite the very different contexts of gender equality in the developed world, compared to the developing world, there are many commonalities when it comes to the position of women in agriculture (Adesugba et al., 2021; Ball, 2020; Dunne et al., 2021; Sachs & Garner, 2017). Women have unequal access to land, unequal access to education, unequal access to finance and are under‐represented in farming organisations (Dunne et al., 2021; Shortall & Adesugba, 2020).…”

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Is agriculture an occupation or a sector? Gender inequalities in a European context

Shortall

2022

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article focuses on inequalities in agriculture in the European Union. We examine the mismatch between European legislation on employment and any rigorous interrogation of women's employment position in agriculture. Our central argument is that this occurs because agriculture is seen as a sector rather than an occupation. DG AGRI is responsible for European agricultural and rural development policies. DG EMPLOYMENT does not have oversight for the agricultural workforce in the same way as other occupations as the existence of DG AGRI means farming is less obviously understood as an occupation. There are no similar measures to address the under‐representation of women in agriculture in the same way as for science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations. We demonstrate that when agricultural policies are seen as relating to an occupation rather than a sector, it becomes clearer how agricultural policy discriminates against women.

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Engendering European alternative food networks through countertopographies

Blumberg¹

2022

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Farm household livelihood strategies

Cited by 3 publications

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Involvement of women farmers in the agro-ecological transition and transformation of their work: Chronicle of the agricultural organization Groupe Femmes 44

Involvement of women farmers in the agro-ecological transition and transformation of their work: Chronicle of the agricultural organization Groupe Femmes 44

Is agriculture an occupation or a sector? Gender inequalities in a European context

Engendering European alternative food networks through countertopographies

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