Women in the Field: Women, Farming and Organizations

Shortall, Sally

doi:10.1111/1468-0432.00127

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“…Furthermore, in reality, a woman's whole affiliation to farming is constructed through their route of entry and status within the farm family. Not only does it affect interpersonal relationships inside the family, but it additionally, affects the woman's role in the general area of farming (Shortall 2003). For instance, land ownership and space provided for farming plays a vital role in women farmer development.…”

Section: Agricultural Training Programmes For Women Farmersmentioning

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Women Farmer Participation and Its Determinants in Agricultural Training Programmes, for Central Division Fiji

Chand¹,

Zheng²,

Bi³

et al. 2020

JCSD

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The primary purpose of this paper is to recognise the essential factors that contribute to women farmer involvement in training events which, was used to determine significant independent variables for the five provinces of Central Division Fiji adding to 120 women farmers. The sampling was done in concern with any form of training provided in the agricultural, animal and crop sector alike. Considering the independent variables used to indicate the significant contributing factors influencing women participation in training, Marital status, age, tertiary education, extension services, access to market and the size of owned land played active roles. More interestingly, the variables that played insignificant influencers were the number of family members in the farmer household and the reason for farming. A logit analysis was used to display the results of significant and insignificant determining variables. Thus, the overall understanding of these variables through this study carried out in Fiji can lead to better decision making in regards to training programmes for women farmers and consequently producing positive agricultural development in Fiji which can become an efficient tool for agricultural ministry. Moreover, better agricultural policies for women farmers can be adopted based on their determinants to agricultural involvement.

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Section: Agricultural Training Programmes For Women Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women Farmer Participation and Its Determinants in Agricultural Training Programmes, for Central Division Fiji

Chand¹,

Zheng²,

Bi³

et al. 2020

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“…Wahtmore (1991) puts forward a combination of political and feminist viewpoints to claim that the wageless role of women in household farms is a form of support for the economy of the family. It has been said that women can only enter the agricultural sector by marrying a farmer and thereby obtaining a complementary role in earning family income (Shortall 2001). But, in reality, women are "only farmers' wives" and are often considered to be assistants (Bryant 1999), while the main management roles of the farm are in the hands of men.…”

Section: Literature Review On Women In the Agricultural Sectormentioning

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Gender identities and farm survival: Women's activities in the agricultural sector in remote rural areas

Bozchelouie¹

2018

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Despite the structurally deterministic leanings of the literature about women and farms over time, new studies have attempted to identify the ways in which women's positions in the rural household are reinforced, stressing the factor of visibility in the labor force. The entrepreneurial processes and commodification practices through which women engage in a range of different kinds of productive activity, such as agrotourism and the production of organic crops, are frequently cited as sources of empowerment for women on farms . However, since this new trend is not a unitary and homogeneous process, the present study examines the role of women in agriculture by taking into account the positionality of the specific actors, as well as their conflicts and negotiations within particular sociocultural contexts. Our analysis is based on sets of in-depth interviews with full-time farm women in Jirestan, north-eastern Iran. Findings indicate that Jirestan's women identify themselves both as "producers" and "entrepreneurs." Commercial gardens, in addition to new farming styles and the reproduction of sales of traditional local produce, have created this "hybrid" identity. Although farms are being re-constructed as shared businesses with an increase in the role of women, the latter still adhere to patriarchal traditions and social norms and consider themselves helpers and housewives.

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“…Sem landeigendur tryggja karlar valdastöðu sína innan búsins enn frekar, á kostnað kvenna (Brandth 2002;Silvasti 1999;Thien 2005). Sú staðreynd að eigendur lands og bújarða eru naer eingöngu karlar hefur leitt til kynbundinnar uppbyggingar á baendasamtökum sem skýrir að hluta til faeð kvenna í þeim (Alston 2003;Pini 2002;Shortall 2001;Teather 1996).…”

Section: Kynjarannsóknir í Landbúnaðiunclassified

“…Thien (2005) telur eignarhald búrekstrarins einmitt vera mestu hindrun kvenna í landbúnaði í Evrópu því að eignarhaldið veiti körlum betra aðgengi að samtökum baenda og hafi þar með meiri áhrif á stefnu starfsstéttarinnar en konur. Þessu eru Teather (1996), Shortall (2001), Pini (2002) og Alston (2003) sammála og telja að það sé m.a. ástaeðan fyrir faeð kvenna í slíkum samtökum, þau séu svo karllaeg að erfitt sé fyrir konur að koma þar inn.…”

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Staða kvenna í landbúnaði. Kynjafræðilegur sjónarhóll

Sigursteinsdóttir¹,

Rafnsdóttir²

2009

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Meginmarkmið greinarinnar er að leita svara við því hvort til staðar sé kynjahalli á lögbýlum hér á landi þegar skoðaðir eru tilteknir þættir sem viðkoma félags- og efnahagslegri stöðu kynjanna. Erlendir femínískir fræðimenn hafa fært rök fyrir því að innan landbúnaðargeirans lifi feðraveldishugsunin enn góðu lífi og að félagsleg uppbygging hans ali á kynjaójafnrétti. Fáar kynjafræðilegar rannsóknir eru hins vegar til um stöðu kvenna í landbúnaði hér á landi ef frá er talin meistaranámsrannsókn Hjördísar Sigursteinsdóttur sem þessi grein byggist á. Þátttakendur í rannsókninni voru á aldrinum 18-70 ára og búsettir á lögbýlum á Íslandi. Notast var við lögbýlaskrá, útgefna af landbúnaðarráðuneytinu árið 2006, og þjóðskrá Hagstofu Íslands frá 1. desember 2006. Úrtakið var 1.985 manns, 49% karlar og 51% konur. Spurningalistinn var sendur til þátttakenda í janúar 2007. Í úrvinnslunni voru tengsl breyta ýmist skoðuð með fylgniútreikningum eða samanburði á meðaltölum. Svarhlutfallið var 53,5%. Þátttakendur endurspegluðu úrtakið vel með tilliti til kynferðis og landsvæða. Niðurstöðurnar sýndu tiltekinn kynjahalla á lögbýlum, konum í óhag. Þær voru almennt ekki eins ánægðar og karlar með búsetuskilyrði sín og barna sinna. Félags- og efnahagsleg staða kvenna var almennt lakari en karla þegar spurt var um þætti sem snertu tengsl við ættingja og vini, búrekstur, búsetuskilyrði, eignarhald og tekjur. Þetta má teljast áhyggjuefni, bæði út frá sjónarhóli kynjajafnréttis og byggðastefnu.

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Women in the Field: Women, Farming and Organizations

Cited by 29 publications

References 5 publications

Women Farmer Participation and Its Determinants in Agricultural Training Programmes, for Central Division Fiji

Women Farmer Participation and Its Determinants in Agricultural Training Programmes, for Central Division Fiji

Gender identities and farm survival: Women's activities in the agricultural sector in remote rural areas

Staða kvenna í landbúnaði. Kynjafræðilegur sjónarhóll

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