| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Perspectives on agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa: theoretical and methodological issues -- African smallholder farmers on the move: farm and non-farm trends for six sub-Saharan African countries, 2002-15 -- Assets, gender, and rural livelihoods -- Gender and rural livelihoods: agricultural commercialization and farm/non-farm diversification -- Agrarian change and structural transformation: drivers and distributional outcomes -- Agricultural intensification response to agricultural input subsidies in Tanzania: a spatial-temporal and gender perspective, 2002-15 -- Intensification, crop diversification, and gender relations in Malawi -- Policies or prices? a gendered analysis of drivers of maize production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-13 -- Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana -- Technology use, gender, and impact of non-farm income on agricultural investment: an empirical analysis of maize production in two regions of Kenya -- Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa: what lessons can we learn? -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men |
| Analysis |
sub-saharan africa |
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agriculture |
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rural livelihoods |
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diversification |
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commercialization |
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gender |
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non-farm to farm linkages |
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assets |
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Fertilizer |
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Ghana |
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Kenya |
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Labour economics |
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Maize |
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Malawi |
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Tanzania |
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Zambia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018) |
| Subject |
Agricultural diversification -- Africa
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Women in agriculture -- Africa
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Agricultural economics New.
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Development economics and emerging economies Mod Development economics and emerging economies.
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Economics, finance, business and management.
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Economics.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Labour economics.
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Social groups.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
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Agricultural diversification
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Women in agriculture
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes, 1973- editor.
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Dzanku, Fred M., editor.
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Isinika, Aida C., 1951- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017945146 |
| ISBN |
9780192519955 |
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0192519956 |
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9780191839641 |
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0191839647 |
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