Innovative Agricultural Extension For Women

Author : S. Tjip Walker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Agricultural Extension for Women written by S. Tjip Walker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cameroon's poor northwest province, agricultural extension was extended to women for practical, not ideological, reasons in a sustainable, replicable experiment that increased production and women's income.

Author : S. Tjip Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Agricultural Extension for Women written by S. Tjip Walker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural extension has not been particularly kind to Africa's women farmers. On a continent where women produce 90 percent of the food and 60 percent of total agricultural output, insensitivity and neglect by extension services is the norm. Numerous case studies have pointed out the "gender gap" that exists in the provision of extension services to women farmers. Compared to male farmers or farming couples, women farmers receive far less attention from extension services, thus benefiting less from improved farming techniques. However, in Cameroon's North West province, over the last five years, the Mission de Developpement de la Province du Nord-Ouest (MIDENO), has been implementing a project to improve agricultural production in the province. In terms of agricultural extension, the project has hired almost 200 new extension agents, one-fourth of whom are women. The overall representation of women in the extension service is now 18.3 percent, among the highest in developing countries. The paper is organized into three Chapters : Chapter I deals with the agricultural and policy setting in which MIDENO was designed; Chapter II is devoted to the MIDENO case study; Chapter III attempts to generalize from the MIDENO case and determines the extent to which the MIDENO's experience and success can be sustained and replicated.

Author : Mbo’o-Tchouawou, M., Colverson, K.E.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN 13 : 9291463493
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Increasing access to agricultural extension and advisory services: How effective are new approaches in reaching women farmers in rural areas? written by Mbo’o-Tchouawou, M., Colverson, K.E. and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raj Saravanan
Publisher : New India Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788189422967
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Extension written by Raj Saravanan and published by New India Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural extension is in a great transition worldwide. The demand for public extension reform is greater than ever before. The agriculture knowledge infrastructure is evolving in a big way with the emergence of pluralistic extension actors and innovations to cater the needs of the farmeThis book is an attempt to document the past experiences and recent developments in the agriculture knowledge information systems. The compilation of 14 country s such as; Afghanistan, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, India, Iran, Mozambique, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe is intended to document the experience of extension systems. The fourteen country s highlight the worldwide agricultural extension reform measures (Decentralization, Privatization, Demand driven and Cost-recovery approaches), Institutional Pluralism (Public, Private, and NGOs) and Innovations (Farmer to Farmer extension, Participatory and Self-Help Group (SHG) approaches and ICT initiatives). The agricultural extension students, academicians, scientist, practitioners, administrators, and policy makers will find this compilation of extension experiences from the fourteen countries relevant for designing future reforms, advancing pluralistic extension system and also to integrating innovations in their extension approaches.

Author : Carolyn Sachs
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384156
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture written by Carolyn Sachs and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. The authors' feminist agrifood systems theory (FAST) values women's ways of knowing and working in agriculture and has the potential to shift how farmers, agricultural professionals, and anyone else interested in farming think about gender and sustainability, as well as to change how feminist scholars and theorists think about agriculture.--COVER.

Author : Ranajit Kumar Samanta
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Agriculture written by Ranajit Kumar Samanta and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume consists of nine chapters covering relevant issues on women in farming and its allied disciplines projecting multifaceted experiences, authored by several experts, academics and practitioners on the field from the countries like, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands and India.

Author : Katrine Anderson Saito
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : World Bank
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers written by Katrine Anderson Saito and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite rapid advances in agricultural technology and heavy expenditures by governments and donors on agricultural extension, as much as a fifth of mankind - almost all in developing countries - still goes hungry. Extension programs can increase agricultural productivity and rural incomes by bridging the gap between new technical knowledge and a farmer's practices, but research and extension services usually assume that farmers are men. In fact, women play a critical role in a wide range of agricultural activities, and as men move into off-farm employment, women's importance to agriculture is growing. The specific needs and problems of women farmers must be addressed in the design and implementation of agricultural projects. This paper provides an overview of women farmers and their production systems, presents a framework for analysis of gender issues, suggests interventions and project components, and sets out guidelines for designing and modifying agricultural service projects.

Author : Katherine Jellison
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862274
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entitled to Power written by Katherine Jellison and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices. Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted by agricultural extension agents and by home appliance manufacturers, were expected to create separate spheres of work in the field and in the house. These innovations, however, enabled women to work as operators of farm machinery or independently in the rural community. Jellison finds that many women preferred their productive roles on and off the farm to the domestic ideal emphasized by contemporary prescriptive literature. A variety of visual images of farm women from advertisements and agricultural publications serve to contrast the publicized view of these women with the roles that they chose for themselves. The letters, interviews, and memoirs assembled by Jellison reclaim the many contributions women made to modernizing farm life. Originally published in 1993. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291901
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering Agricultural Research, Development and Extension written by Ruth Meinzen-Dick and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kumar, Anjani
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Million Farmers School: An evaluation of its impact on farmers’ agricultural knowledge in Uttar Pradesh, India written by Kumar, Anjani and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Million Farmers School (MFS) is an innovative extension program initiated by the Department of Agriculture in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2017. Twice in a year, the department deploys its entire extension machinery to organize nearly 15,000 training programs for about a million farmers across all districts of the state. Unlike traditional extension services, MFS integrates various facets of agricultural knowledge into a packaged product and delivers through village-level trainings where printed material on the topics of training are also distributed among participants. This study presents early findings of a process evaluation, involving assessments of program design, implementation strategies, and estimation of benefits from program participation. In addition to consultation with public officials and community organizations, a state-level representative survey was conducted on a sample of both participating and non-participating households. The early results based on matching and instrumental variable methods—suggest that knowledge outcomes are significantly better among participants vis-à-vis non-participants. The results are robust to different model specifications. The study also qualitatively assesses various aspects of the program’s design and implementation, highlighting the constraints and challenges it faces and offers implementation advice for greater efficacy in its future course.