Does group farming empower rural women? The Indian experience
This paper, based on the author’s detailed primary surveys in two Indian states, examines whether group farming can enable women farmers to overcome resource constraints and gain economically. Can it also empower them socially and politically?
<a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/12/does-group-farming-empower-rural-women" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2017/12/does-group-farming-empower-rural-women</a>
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
2017
English
Women in Agriculture: An Assessment of the Current State of Affairs in Africa
This study examines the state of women in African agriculture, by focusing on how policy and institutional considerations frame the conditions of access to agricultural resources. The study first shows the missing links in the approaches to African women in agriculture. Second, the study discusses the relationship between access to resources and rewards and the contribution of women farmers to agricultural development, food security and the larger continental development agenda. Through the use of thematic variables, the study shows some of the constraints that affect the access of women farmers to critical variables in agricultural production and marketing. Finally, the study reiterates the importance of political leadership in improving the conditions of women farmers and outlines viable policy recommendations that recognize and address the multiple roles and challenges African women farmers are confronted with in the agricultural sector in particular and national development in general.
Amenyah, Ivy Drafor ; Puplampu, Korbla P.
<a href="https://www.acbf-pact.org/what-we-do/how-we-do-it/knowledge-learning/working-papers/women-agriculture-assessment-current-state" title="https://www.acbf-pact.org/what-we-do/how-we-do-it/knowledge-learning/working-papers/women-agriculture-assessment-current-state" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.acbf-pact.org/what-we-do/how-we-do-it/knowledge-learning/working-papers/women-agriculture-assessment-current-state</a>
African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
2013
English
Women Caring for the Land Conservation Series
<a href="http://www.wfan.org/resources/wfans-publications/" title="http://www.wfan.org/resources/wfans-publications/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.wfan.org/resources/wfans-publications/</a>
Women Food and Ag Network (WFAN)
English
“What’d Life Be Without Home Grown Tomatoes?” Iowa Women Farmers’ Motivations, Beliefs, and Practices Within the Local Foods Movement
A 2008 paper by Andrea Rissing of Grinnell College about Iowa women farmers’ in the local foods movement.
Andrea Rissing
<a href="http://wfan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MAP-paper-final-version1.pdf" title="http://wfan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MAP-paper-final-version1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://wfan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MAP-paper-final-version1.pdf</a>
Women Food and Ag Network (WFAN)
2008
English
2012 USDA Census of Agriculture Race, Ethnicity and Gender Profiles
Race, ethnicity, and gender profiles from the USDA Census of Agriculture
USDA Census of Agriculture
<a href="https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Race,_Ethnicity_and_Gender_Profiles/" title="https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Race,_Ethnicity_and_Gender_Profiles/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Race,_Ethnicity_and_Gender_Profiles/</a>
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
2012 (Last updated: 2015)
English
Women Food & Ag Network (WFAN)
To engage women in building an ecological and just food and agricultural system through individual and community power.
<a href="http://www.wfan.org/" title="http://www.wfan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.wfan.org/</a>
Women Food & Ag Network (WFAN)
2018
English
Pink Tractor
Pink Tractor is dedicated to sharing women’s stories, providing encouragement and resources, and creating community, on and off the farm. Farm Strong. Woman Smart.
<a href="http://www.pinktractor.com/" title="http://www.pinktractor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.pinktractor.com/</a>
Pink Tractor
2018
English
Tajik women are forced to be dependent on men due to lack of land access: A study on women and farming in Tajikistan
analyzes the gender legislation and the national policies and strategies of Tajikistan within the field of agriculture. It looks at the barriers in the gender policy implementation, the participation of women at the decision-making level and the number of girls attending school.
Alla Kuvatova
<a href="http://www.wecf.eu/english/publications/2014/review-women-farming-tajikistan.php" title="http://www.wecf.eu/english/publications/2014/review-women-farming-tajikistan.php" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.wecf.eu/english/publications/2014/review-women-farming-tajikistan.php</a>
Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF)
April 2014
English
Feminist Perspectives towards Transforming Economic Power: Food Sovereignty
Presents an analysis of the current debates about food sovereignty from a gender perspective, in which the international and Latin American peasant women movement have played a central role.
Pamela Caro
<a href="https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-food-sovereignty" title="https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-food-sovereignty" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-food-sovereignty</a>
AWID
August 2011
English
Feminist Perspectives towards Transforming Economic Power: Agroecology
A study that examines the relationship between agroecology and feminism in Brazil and shows agroecology to be an essential tool that can advance the empowerment of rural women.
Ana Paula Lopes and Emilia Jomalinis, Action Aid Brazil
<a href="https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-agroecology" title="https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-agroecology" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.awid.org/publications/feminist-perspectives-towards-transforming-economic-power-agroecology</a>
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
2012
English