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Oxford Agriculture Diversification and Gender in Rural Africa Longitudinal Perspectives from Six Countries 2018 Edition by Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, Aida C. Isinika
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa uses a longitudinal cross-country comparative approach to contribute to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on unique household level data_x000D_collected in six African countries since 2002, it addresses the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men._x000D__x000D_Despite a growing interest in smallholder agriculture in Africa, this interest has not been matched by the research on the subject. While recent policies focus on reducing poverty through encouraging smallholder agriculture, there are few studies showing how livelihoods have changed since this time, and especially how such changes may have affected male and female headed households differently. Moreover, agriculture is often viewed in isolation from other types of income generating_x000D_opportunities, like small scale trading. Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa looks at how livelihoods have changed over time and how this has affected the relationship between agricultural and non-agricultural sources of livelihoods. In general, women have much poorer access to agricultural_x000D_sources of income, and for this reason the interplay between farm and non-farm sources of income is especially important to analyse._x000D__x000D_Providing suggestions for more inclusive policies related to rural development, this edited volume outlines current weaknesses and illustrates potential opportunities for change. It offers a nuanced alternative to the current dominance of structural transformation narratives of agricultural change through adding insights from gender studies as well as village-level studies of agrarian development. It positions change in relation to broader livelihood dynamics outside the farm sector and_x000D_contextualises them nationally and regionally to provide a necessary analytical adaption to the unfolding empirical realities of rural Africa._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
1: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Isinika: Introduction- theoretical and methodological framing of the book_x000D_
2: Magnus Jirstroem, Maria Archila Bustos, and Sarah Alobo Loison: African smallholder farmers on the move: farm and non-farm trends for six sub-Saharan African countries, 2002-2015_x000D_
3: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt: Assets, gender, and rural livelihoods_x000D_
4: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt: Gender and rural livelihoods: agricultural commercialization and farm non-farm diversification_x000D_
5: Goeran Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, and Maria Archila Bustos: Agrarian change and structural transformation: drivers and distributional outcomes_x000D_
6: Elibariki Msuya, Aida Isinika, and Fred Mawunyo Dzanku: Agricultural intensification response to agricultural input subsidies in Tanzania: a spatial-temporal and gender perspective 2002-2015_x000D_
7: Peter Mvula and Wapulumuka Mulwafu: Intensification, crop diversification and gender relations in Malawi_x000D_
8: Ellen Hillbom and Martin Prowse: Policies or prices? A gendered analysis of drivers of maize production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-2013_x000D_
9: Fred Mawunyo Dzanku and Daniel Bruce Sarpong: Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana_x000D_
10: Stephen K. Wambugu, Joseph T. Karugia , and Willis O. Kosura: Technology use, gender, and impact of non-farm income on agricultural investment: an empirical analysis of maize production in two regions of Kenya_x000D_
11: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Isinika: Gender, Agriculture, and Diversification in Rural Africa: What Lessons Can We Learn?_x000D_