Invisible Farmers: Women and the Crisis in Agriculture

摘要

Women provide a large and vital share of the labor in most Third World agricultural systems, yet they are invisible to government policymakers, historians, social scientists, and others involved in agricultural policy planning. In this monograph, eight essays by different women authors present policy recommendations to assist women in their agricultural activities. The eight papers, taken as a whole, show why the type of development assistance currently channeled to rural women is wholly inadequate. The papers address such issues as forestry, off-farm rural employment, agricultural extension, legal status and access to land, and organizational and political resources.