Gender, food security and rural livelihoods

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Gender, food security and rural livelihoods

edited by Maithreyi Krishnaraj

Stree, 2007

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Summary: Contributed articles presented at a seminar at M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai in 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Food security remains a major concern in India as agriculture is in crisis. Food security depends not only on production and the market but also on the social and political structures, which include gender within which markets are situated. Women have always been engaged in agriculture. And today the figure is close to 80 percent. Left with the responsibility of running farms because of male migration, women find work burdens have increased without growth in productivity. They lack rights to land. Technological change means that women lose their jobs like threshing rice or making rice products at home. They may get jobs in rice mills, but at low wages. They end up having less to eat when they never got enough anyway.So though agriculture has more women working, they are earning less, and there is less food security for them and their families. Malnutrition is common because when there is less food going around, women earn less so that men and children get more. In this changing context, the contributors explore women's roles in agriculture and the household, both areas where their contributions are unwaged, and discuss the interrelated concepts of gender, livelihood and food security.

目次

  • The Feminisation of Agriculture and the Marginalisation of Women's Economic Stake
  • Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Livelihoods: Implications for Women
  • Agricultural Diversification and Poverty Reduction: Mainstreaming Women
  • Commercialisation, Commodification and Gender Relations in Post-Harvest Systems for Rice in South Asia
  • Rendering Livelihoods Insecure: Dowry and Female Seclusion in Left Developmental Contexts, West Bengal and Kerala
  • Land Rights, Gender Equality and Household Food Security: Exploring the Conceptual Links in the Case of India
  • Livelihood Patterns and Food Security Situations: Some Case Studies From Maharashtra
  • Attaining Food and Nutritional Security in Rajasthan: Some Gender Concerns
  • The Gendered Context of Vulnerability: Coping / Adapting to Floods in Eastern India
  • Labour Out-Migration, Livelihood of Rice Farming Households and Women Left Behind: A Case Study in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
  • Can an Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Livelihood and Food Security?
  • Index.

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