Structural adjustment and African women farmers / edited by Christina H. Gladwin. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gladwin, Christina H., Author.

Contributor:

Gladwin, Christina H.

University of Florida. Center for African Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women farmers--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.

Women farmers.

Women agricultural laborers--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.

Women agricultural laborers.

Agriculture and state--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.

Agriculture and state.

Agricultural subsidies--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.

Agricultural subsidies.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 413 p. ) ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press : Center for African Studies, University of Florida : Orders, University Presses of Florida, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Structural adjustment and structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa / Stephen O'Brien

Women, structural adjustment, and transformation: some lessons and questions from the African experience / Uma Lele

Getting priorities right: structural transformation and strategic notions / Bruce F. Johnston

Policies to overcome the negative effects of structural adjustment programs on African female-headed households / Jean M. Due

Impact of structural adjustment programs on Women and their households in Bendel and Ogun States, Nigeria / Patience Elabor-Idemudia

Women and structural adjustment in Zaire / Brooke Schoef ... (et al.)

Impact of structural adjustment programs on rural women in Tanzania / Ruth Meena

Fertilizer subsidy removal programs and their potential impacts on women farmers in Malawi and Cameroon / Christina H. Gladwin

Women traders in Ghana and the structural adjustment program / Gracia Clark, Takyiwaa Manuh.

Ideology and political economy of gender: women and land in Nso, Cameroon / Miriam Goheen

Women's agricultural work in a multimodal rural economy: Ibarapa District, Oyo State, Nigeria / Jane I. Guyer with Olukemi Idowu

Structural transformation and its consequences for Orma women pastoralists / Jean Ensminger

New women's organizations in Nigeria: one response to structural adjustment / Lillian Trager, Clara Osinulu

Role of home economics agents in rural development programs in northern Nigeria: impacts of structural adjustment / Comfort B. Olayiwole

Curriculum planning for women and agricultural households: the case of Cameroon / Suzanna Smith, Barbara Taylor

Women farmers, structural adjustment, and FAO's plan of action for integration of women in development / Anita Spring, Vicki Wilde.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Papers from the 1990 Carter Lectures on Africa series held 25-27 January in Gainesville, Fla.

ISBN:

0-8130-1961-3