Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia



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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9587-x
DOI: 
10.1007/s10460-015-9587-x
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Licensing of resource: 
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Type: 
journal article
Journal: 
Agriculture and Human Values
Pages: 
705-725
Volume: 
32
Author(s): 
Quisumbing A.R.
Rubin D.
Manfre C.
Waithanji E.
den Bold M.
Olney D.
Johnson N.
Meinzen-Dick R.
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Strengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly women farmers, to produce for both home and the market is currently a development priority. In many contexts, ownership of assets is strongly gendered, reflecting existing gender norms and limiting women’s ability to invest in more profitable livelihood strategies such as market-oriented agriculture. Yet the intersection between women’s asset endowments and their ability to participate in and benefit from agricultural interventions receives minimal attention. This paper explores changes in gender relations and women’s assets in four agricultural interventions that promoted high value agriculture with different degrees of market-orientation

Publication year: 
2015
Keywords: 
Gender
value chains
assets
Agricultural development projects
impact evaluation
food security