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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"women farmers"”.
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Exploring Women Farmers' Experiences: A Case Study of Gender Inequality on Small Turkish Farms
… population income, and in these rural areas women are the cornerstones of the agricultural production. Resources, especially water, land, livestock, crops, and knowledge about agricultural production are crucial for preserving the livelihoods of most of the world's rural families. Access to, …
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Coping and adaptation of women farmers to climate variability in Maseru and Quthing districts, Lesotho
… inquiry to provide an in-depth account of women farmers in Maseru and Quthing districts in Lesotho to capture how they perceive, experience, and respond to climate variability. The study adopted a mixed-methodology research approach using qualitative and quantitative data analysis. …
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A Gendered Perspective On Migrant Women Farmers’ Lived Experiences In The Brong-Ahafo Region Of Ghana
… thesis examined the lived experiences of migrant women in rural areas of the Brong-Ahafo Region (BAR) of Ghana. Notwithstanding the depth of research on internal migrations in Ghana, little is known about women who have migrated from the Upper West Region to rural settlements in BAR to farm. Using …
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Socio-Cultural Practices That Impact Women Farmers' Land Ownership: A Case of Sukuma Women in Tanzania
In Tanzania women, farmers are main producers of agricultural food products, yet they don't have legal ownership of land. Customary practices often require women to access land through their husbands, fathers, brothers, or other men who control the land. Men as the heads of household, control …
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Loss and damage from droughts: material and non-material impacts of water scarcity on women farmers in Gugulethu, Cape Town
… Town drought have been on a group of urban-poor women farmers. Then, this research uses a barriers and enablers to adaptation framework to understand how to reduce these losses and damages. This qualitative case-study investigates women farmers’ lived-experiences of L&D during the 2015-2017 …
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WOMEN FARMERS AND SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE IN JAFFNA, SRI LANKA: Changing farm operation practices in a dry-zone area affected by climate change
… dynamics of sustainable agriculture practiced by women operating commercial-scale, sustainable farms in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with a focus on women's agency and freedoms within the agricultural sector. Women operate 26% of farms in Jaffna, yet women are notably absent from agricultural development …
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Understanding women's perspectives and experience in sustainable agrifood systems in the Mid-South region of the United States
Women's participation in farming in the United States is increasing, with a notable concentration in the Mid-South region (Southern MO, eastern OK, northern AR, western TN, and KY). This region, marked by persistent economic challenges, exhibits low adoption rates of sustainable practices like …
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Capacity Building to Engosengiu Women group in Improving Local Chicken Production in Per Urban Of Arusha City- A case of Sokon1 ward at Arusha City Council -Arusha Region
Engosengiu Women Farmers' Group constitutes a number of 30 members with the potential of reaching a membership base of 200 in the very near future. The Group is located at Sokoni Ward, in Arusha City Council; it was formed with the aim of combining individual efforts to increase income of the …
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The Impact of Women Health Issues on Agricultural Production in Fondwa
… (IFAD, 2008). In the rural areas, men and women participate in agricultural production. However, the women play a vital role in the whole process starting from land preparation to crop sale (Gaspard, 2013). The Haitian women, despite of their function in crop productions (Dor, 2016), face …
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Spatial and Gender Dimensions of IPM Adoption in Uganda
… important high-value horticulture crop. Tomato farmers have also identified these diseases as primary constraints for crop production and have employed chemical pesticides to reduce crop losses. One focus of the Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP), which …
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Impacts of pesticide use practices and gender on cowpea productivity of smallholder farmers in Benin
… security and livelihoods of African smallholder farmers. Yet, cowpea yields in Africa are among the lowest in the world and one possible explanation for the yield gap is cowpea’s high vulnerability to insect pest attacks. Pesticides have been widely acknowledged as the most effective method of …
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Determinants of soybean adoption and performance in northern Ghana
… generate new sources of income for smallholder farmers. Yet as an unfamiliar commercial crop, soybean requires farmers to move beyond traditional production practices and market engagements in order to succeed. In this context soybean represents a long-jump agricultural technology, requiring …
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From services to ideological formation: Building community agency in Palestine
… and political conditions of rural Palestinian women, farmers and youth, and to assist in community capacity building at various institutional levels. A six-month ethnographic case study was conducted of two prominent, well-established Palestinian grassroots NGOs that have been working in the …
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Tense collaborations and exchange interrupted: Gendered participation in ecological agriculture projects in post-neoliberal(?) Bolivia
… applying neoliberal frameworks to 'empower' farmers and resisting neoliberal approaches to strengthen Bolivia's sovereignty vis-à-vis the global North. Despite a significant backlash, neoliberalism continues to complicate sustainable development, participatory ideals and local/scientific …
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Smallholder women empowerment: the case of Norwegian agricultural programme in Senanga, Zambia.
In Zambian agriculture, women generally perform most activities such as weeding, harvesting, stocking, marketing and processing than men who are largely involved in tillage. However, women are marginalized in terms of access to and ownership of productive assets. In response, government, civil …
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Gender-based analysis of agricultural water security in Luvhada Community, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Women and men use water differently. A significant number of rural women and men rely on natural water resources for farming in irrigated schemes, as a key and common economic activity. Women undertake farming either together with men or alone (for example, when widowed or when the men migrate to …
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Credibility and scale as barriers to uptake and use of seasonal climate forecasts in Bobirwa Sub-District, Botswana
… their livelihood. The use of disseminated SCF by farmers in decision-making could reduce losses and maximise benefits in agriculture. Despite the potential usefulness of SCF, incorporating them into farming decisions is a complex process that navigates through several barriers which constrain …
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Critical analysis of the contribution of smallholder dairy farming to the livelihoods of households: The case of Nharira, Zimbabwe
… knowledge on its negative contribution to the farmers’ livelihoods. Thus, this study was undertaken to critically analyse the contribution of smallholder dairy farming towards the livelihoods of rural households using the Nharira dairy scheme as a focal area. The DfiD sustainable livelihood …
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Diseño y aplicación de la metodología ECA con enfoque de género y lengua en el departamento de Potosí - Bolivia (ECAMUQ)
… design and implementation of the methodology of farmers field school (FFS) with gender and language approach (ECAMUQ). Farmer Field School (FFS) is a participatory training methodology based on the concept of learning through discovery, learning by doing, in which participants and facilitators …
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From saeter to sod: Single women homesteaders of Norwegian descent farming their land in Dakota territory, 1862-1929
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