Gender, Agricultural Development and Food Security in Amhara, Ethiopia: The Contested Identity of Women Farmers in Ethiopia

摘要

The Ethiopian human and physical landscape can perhaps best be characterized as widely diverse with cultural and geographic variability preventing researchers from making generalizations or extrapolating from one situation and applying the same framework to other areas of the country. While issues surrounding the intersection of gender, food security and agricultural development face the same set of constraints as other development issues in Ethiopia, there are a number of common themes that repeatedly emerge in the literature and over the course of interviews regardless of the agricultural region. It is these themes that this study seeks to address and provide recommendations within the context of the proposed interventions for agricultural and economic development in Amhara Region.