Introduction: Making "The Invisible Farmer" Visible

Haney, Wava G.; Knowles, Jane B.

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“…Increased explicit recognition and support by external actors may have facilitated this process. The necessity of recognizing women in their roles as farmers, and agripreneurs, is widely noted in the literature (Safilios-Rothschild, 1985;Galiè et al, 2013;Haney and Knowles, 2021).…”

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Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

Farnworth,

Galiè,

Gumucio

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Seed systems are essential to bring good genetic material to farmers. Women farmers, however, have benefited less than men farmers from seed systems in low and middle income countries. We identify factors that inhibit and promote women's success in seed businesses through three case studies of women's and men's entrepreneurship across seed-related value chains and country contexts: tilapia seed production in Ghana, marketing and trading of improved maize and sorghum seeds in Kenya, and chicken seed dissemination in Tanzania. Applying a gender lens, we use key informant interviews and focus group discussions to analyze women's and men's motivations to engage in seed businesses, the challenges they confront to start and build their enterprises, and prospects for sustainability and continued success. We use quantitative data to characterize the levels of empowerment of the agripreneurs sampled. For women, the results show that the social normative context of the sector is critical. Time flexibility and profitability are important considerations for women's engagement. Furthermore, across all three country cases, family and external support are frequently key to women's participation and success in seed agripreneurship. The article discusses the importance of government bodies, NGOs, and donors in challenging the normative context around gender resource gaps, as well as provide technical packages and training to develop business acumen. Supporting change of restrictive gender norms in non-threatening ways - such as ICTs - is key.

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Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

Farnworth,

Galiè,

Gumucio

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Since at least the early 1980s, scholars have attempted to write women back into the history of US agriculture (Haney and Knowles 1988 ; Sachs 1983 ; Rosenfeld 1985 ; Whatmore 1991 ). These scholars’ work highlights the significance of women’s labor while explaining the structural and cultural reasons “women seldom had control over the land they have labored on” (Jensen 1984 , p.1).…”

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Women, race and place in US Agriculture

2022

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Research on women in U.S. agriculture highlights how, despite real challenges, women have made and continue to make spaces for themselves in this male-dominated profession. We argue that, partly due to data accessibility limitations, this work has tended to use white women’s experiences in agriculture as universal. Analyzing micro-data from the 2017 Census of Agriculture, this paper offers descriptive statistics about women and race in U.S. agriculture. We examine numerous characteristics of U.S. farms, including their spatial distribution, the average number of acres farmed, predominant crop types, and other characteristics to describe how white, Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander/Asian women farmers are faring. Our findings suggest significant differences in women’s farms by race. We argue that these are related to the history of forced and voluntary migration within the U.S. Our results indicate that understanding women’s experiences in farming requires understanding the impact of race and these broader historical patterns. Finally, because of these differences across races, we suggest that supporting “women in agriculture” may require tailored responses from agricultural policy and programming that addresses unique needs in specific communities.

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Introduction: Making "The Invisible Farmer" Visible

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Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

Women, race and place in US Agriculture

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