Agriculture, women, and land : the African experience / edited by Jean Davison. - Boulder : Westview, c1988. - vii, 278 p. ; ill., maps. ; 23 cm. - Westview special studies on Africa .

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Land and women's agricultural production / Jean Davison -- Land tenure, agriculture, and gender in Guinea-Bissau / Ursula Funk -- Struggles over land and crops in an irrigated rice scheme : the Gambia / Judith Carney -- Returns to women's labour in cash crop production / S.O. Babalola and Carolynne Dennis -- Land and household economy / Miriam Goheen -- Land, gender, and food security in eastern Kivu, Zaire / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf and Claude Schoepf -- Losing ground--women and agriculture on Sudan's irrigated schemes / Victoria Bernal -- Who owns what? : land registration and tension in gender relations of production in Kenya / Jean Davison -- "A woman is like a field" : women's strategies for land access in Swaziland / Laurel Rose -- Land tenure, gender relations, and agricultural production in Zimbabwe / Donna Pankhurst and Susan Jacobs -- Land redistribution in Mozambique and its effects on women's collective production: case studies from Sofala Province / Jean Davison -- Where can we go from here? : recommendations for action / Kathleen Cloud and Jane B. Knowles



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Women in agriculture--Africa
Land use--Africa.
Land tenure--Africa.
Land reform--Africa.

HD6076 / .A292A37 1988

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