Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : longitudinal perspectives from six countries / / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910263845303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 0-19-251996-4; 0-19-183964-7; 0-19-251995-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 338.1096
• Soggetti: Agricultural diversification - Africa; Women in agriculture - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Perspectives on agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : theoretical and methodological issues / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika -- African smallholder farmers on the move : farm and non-farm trends for six sub-Saharan African countries, 2002-15 / Magnus Jurström, Maria Francisca Archila Bustos, and Sara Alobo Loison -- Assets, gender, and rural livelihoods / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Göran Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, and Maria Francisca Archila Bustos -- Agricultural intensification response to agricultural input subsidies in Tanzania : a spatial-temporal and gender perspective, 2002-15 / Elibariki E. Msuya, Aida Cuthbert Isinika, and Fred Mawunyo Dzanku -- Intensification, crop diversification, and gender relations in Malawi / Peter Mvula and Wapulumuka Mulwafu -- Policies or prices? A gendered analysis of drivers of maize production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-13 / Martin Prowse and Ellen Hillborn -- Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana / Fred Mawunyo Dzanku and Daniel B. Sarpong -- Technology use, gender, and impact of non-farm income on agricultural investment : an empirical analysis of maize production in two regions of Kenya / Stephen K. Wambugu, Joseph T. Karugia, and Willis Oluoch-Kosura -- ; Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : what lessons can we learn? / Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men.