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What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name

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Title What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name
 
Creator Orr, Alastair
 
Contributor Takuji, Tsusaka
Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
Msere, Harry
 
Description We explore the relationship between commercialisation and gender for groundnuts in Eastern Province, Zambia, using a mixed methods approach. Women saw themselves as having greater control over groundnuts than other crops, and both sexes saw groundnuts as controlled by women. Focus Group Discussions reported higher levels of control than found in a household survey. Propensity Score Matching showed that the machine shelling and higher sales did not reduce women’s perceived level of control over groundnuts. Women welcomed greater male participation in machine shelling because it reduced the drudgery of shelling by hand. This suggests that commercialisation did not disempower women.
 
Date 2016-02-15T13:46:26Z
2016-02-15T13:46:26Z
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier http://www.icae2015.org/
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Alastair Orr, Tsusaka Takuji, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Harry Msere. (27/1/2016). What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name. Milan, Italy: Will Martin (Curator).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4471
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
 
Source International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE);