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Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : longitudinal perspectives from six countries / edited by Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika. - First edition. - xix, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.

Perspectives on agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : theoretical and methodological issues / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika -- African smallholder farmers on the move : farm and non-farm trends for six sub-Saharan African countries, 2002-15 / Magnus Jurström, Maria Francisca Archila Bustos, and Sara Alobo Loison -- Assets, gender, and rural livelihoods / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Göran Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, and Maria Francisca Archila Bustos -- Agricultural intensification response to agricultural input subsidies in Tanzania : a spatial-temporal and gender perspective, 2002-15 / Elibariki E. Msuya, Aida Cuthbert Isinika, and Fred Mawunyo Dzanku -- Intensification, crop diversification, and gender relations in Malawi / Peter Mvula and Wapulumuka Mulwafu -- Policies or prices? A gendered analysis of drivers of maize production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-13 / Martin Prowse and Ellen Hillborn -- Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana / Fred Mawunyo Dzanku and Daniel B. Sarpong -- Technology use, gender, and impact of non-farm income on agricultural investment : an empirical analysis of maize production in two regions of Kenya / Stephen K. Wambugu, Jospeh T. Karugia, and Willis Oluoch-Kosura -- Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : what lessons can we learn? / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika.

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.

ISBN: 9780198799283 0198799284 9780198799290 0198799292

LCCN: 2017945146

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB7K9148 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 018589063 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Agricultural diversification--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women in agriculture--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Agricultural diversification.
Women in agriculture.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa, Sub-Saharan.

LC Class. No.: S494.5.D58 / A37 2018