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Drivers of Change Agricultural modernization and women’s status in SAT India. Working Paper Series no. 35

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Title Drivers of Change Agricultural modernization and women’s
status in SAT India. Working Paper Series no. 35
 
Creator Palacios, A C
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This paper explores the extent to which agricultural modernization affects women’s status. Agricultural
modernization refers to the ever-increasing use of farm implements and techniques that have previously
not existed or have not been used in the local setting. These implements and techniques generally intend to
imitate the western model of industrial agriculture, making large-scale cultivation more feasible. Examples
of agricultural modernization include, but are not limited to, improved seeds, chemical fertilizers, tractors
and mechanized threshers. Improved seeds are defined as seeds that are created by a laboratory and later
sold to farmers; certainly hybrid seeds in the purist sense have existed for millennia as farmers knowingly
cross-bred their plants for desirable traits. Biotech or genetically modified seeds are a subset at the most
technologically advanced end of improved seeds, and these are seeds that contain genes not native to their
own species.....
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6502/1/DiversofCHange_WPS_35_2012.pdf
Palacios, A C (2012) Drivers of Change Agricultural modernization and women’s status in SAT India. Working Paper Series no. 35. Working Paper. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.