Women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture: does market orientation of farming systems matter?



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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-017-0737-4
DOI: 
10.1007/s12571-017-0737-4
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Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Type: 
journal article
Journal: 
Food Security
Pages: 
1447-1463
Volume: 
9
Author(s): 
Gupta S.
Pingali P.L
Pinstrup-Andersen P.
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This paper studies the relationship between the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and market orientation of farm production in India. This is the first time that the WEAI has been used in an Indian agricultural context and the first time that it is being associated with market orientation. Was used data on 1920 adults from 960 households in the Chandrapur District of Maharashtra and classified the households into three groups—(1) landless, (2) food-cropping, and (3) cash-cropping—that reflect increasing degrees of market orientation

Publication year: 
2017
Keywords: 
Women´s empowerment
agriculture
India
farming systems
market orientation