Women Farmers: Unheard Being Heard / edited by Sugandha Munshi, Madhulika Singh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munshi, Sugandha, editor.

Singh, Madhulika, editor.

Series:

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security, 2730-6801

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Applied ethics.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Sustainability.

Agricultural Ethics.

Agricultural Economics.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture.

Agricultural Ethics.

Agricultural Economics.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture. This book identify crisis which a woman faces in the field of agriculture as a farmer. The book shares unsung stories of women farmers who are bringing change at the grassroots. It puts together the positive developments experienced by the experts, researchers, professional while working for and with women farmers, to highlight the challenges to bring equity in agriculture. Women in agriculture often lack identity where either they are recognized as farmer’s wife or a farm labourer. Women farmers who contribute 60 percent in to farm practices like sowing, transplanting, fertilizer application, weeding, harvesting, winnowing are merely recognised and provided an equal level playing field. Women are also found participating in the various forms of processing and marketing of agriculture produce, along with the cultivation but system has failed to protect their rights and offer them a platform to voice their concerns. This book shares the process, challenges, experience, strategy from the narrative of progressive women farmers so as to highlight and understand what it takes to bring changes for achieving the goals of an equitable farming ecosystems. The book is a relevant reading material for students, researchers, professionals and policy advocates in agriculture and gender research.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Unheard Being Heard: Women Farmers- An Introduction

Chapter 2. Mainstreaming women farmers: Innovations and Approach

Chapter 3. Women Farmers or the Farmers’ Wives: Unveiling the Negotiated Gender Roles

Chapter 4. Women farmers, constraints, and policy around them to harness maximum benefit

Chapter 5. Challenges and Lessons Learned in Mainstreaming Gender into Rice Research and Technology Development: a case in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Chapter 6. Women farmers in South Asia: Training needs and Aspiration

Chapter 7. Is scale-appropriate farm mechanization gendered? Learning from Nepal hills

Chapter 8. Land rights of Women in India: How much has changed after 2005

Chapter 9. Transformative approaches to empower tribal farmwomen of Ladakh cold arid Himalayan deserts: Challenges & Solutions

Chapter 10. Extent of participation of farm women in decision making regarding agricultural activities

Chapter 11. Empowering Women Farmers through Drudgery reductionand Nutritional Diversity: A KVK, Nalanda-ICAR (Government of India) Initiative

Chapter 12. Women Farmers and Technologies in Agriculture: A review of current practices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Munshi, Sugandha Women Farmers: Unheard Being Heard

ISBN:

981-19-6978-7