Gender, agriculture and agrarian transformations : changing relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia / edited by Carolyn E. Sachs.

Includes index.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; PART 1 Overview; 1 Gender, agriculture and agrarian transformations; PART 2 Gender and agriculture research; 2 The implications of gender relations for modern approaches to crop improvement and plant breeding; 3 ""Change in the making"": 1970s and 1980s building stones to gender integration in CGIAR agricultural research; 4 How to do gender research? Feminist perspectives on gender research in agriculture

PART 3 Intersectionality: Gender, class and ethnicity in agricultural systems5 Intersectionality at the gender-agriculture nexus: relational life histories and additive sex-disaggregated indices; 6 Diversity of small-scale maize farmers in the Western Highlands of Guatemala: integrating gender into farm typologies; 7 ""A Bird Locked in a Cage"": Hmong young women's lives after marriage in northern Vietnam; PART 4 Shifting gender relations in agriculture, fisheries and livestock

8 Defeminizing effect: how improved dairy technology adoption affected women's and men's time allocation and milk income share in Ethiopia9 Implementing ""gender equity"" in livestock interventions: caught between patriarchy and paternalism?; 10 Implications of agricultural innovation on gender norms: gender approaches in aquatic agriculture in Bangladesh; PART 5 Gender, labor and decision making; 11 Permanently seasonal workers: gendered labor relations and working conditions of asparagus agricultural workers in Ica, Perú

12 Gender equality and trees on farms: considerations for implementation of climate-smart agriculture13 Kinship structures, gender and groundnut productivity in Malawi; 14 Changes in participation of women in rice value chains: implications for control over decision making; Index

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural transformations are occurring through increased commodification, new value-chains, technological innovations introduced by CGIAR and other development interventions, declining viability of small-holder agriculture livelihoods, male out-migration from rural areas, and climate change. This book addresses how these changes involve fluctuations in gendered labour and decision making on farms and in agriculture and, in many places, have resulted in the feminization of agriculture at a time of unprecedented climate change. Chapters uncover both how women successfully innovate and how they remain disadvantaged when compared to men in terms of access to land, labor, capital and markets that would enable them to succeed in agriculture. Building on case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book interrogates how new agricultural innovations from agricultural research, new technologies and value chains reshape gender relations. Using new methodological approaches and intersectional analyses, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agriculture, gender, sustainable development and environmental studies more generally.

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