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Title Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa : longitudinal perspectives from six countries / edited by Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, and Aida Cuthbert Isinika.

Publication Info. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018).
Summary This book 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.
Contents Perspectives on agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa: theoretical and methodological issues -- African smallholder farmers on the move: farm and non-farm trends for six sub-Saharan African countries, 2002-15 -- Assets, gender, and rural livelihoods -- Gender and rural livelihoods: agricultural commercialization and farm/non-farm diversification -- Agrarian change and structural transformation: drivers and distributional outcomes -- Agricultural intensification response to agricultural input subsidies in Tanzania: a spatial-temporal and gender perspective, 2002-15 -- Intensification, crop diversification, and gender relations in Malawi -- Policies or prices? a gendered analysis of drivers of maize production in Malawi and Zambia, 2002-13 -- Spatial and gendered linkages between non-farm diversification and farm productivity in Ghana -- Technology use, gender, and impact of non-farm income on agricultural investment: an empirical analysis of maize production in two regions of Kenya -- Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa: what lessons can we learn? -- References -- Index.
Local Note Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books
Subject Agricultural diversification -- Africa.
Women in agriculture -- Africa.
Agricultural economics New.
Development economics and emerging economies Mod Development economics and emerging economies.
Economics, finance, business and management.
Economics.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Labour economics.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Agricultural diversification. (OCoLC)fst00800678
Women in agriculture. (OCoLC)fst01177815
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes, 1973- editor.
Dzanku, Fred M., editor.
Isinika, Aida C., 1951- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Agriculture, diversification, and gender in rural Africa. First edition. ©2018 0198799284 9780198799283 (OCoLC)990853879
ISBN 9780192519955 (electronic book)
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