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Gambian women: Unequal partners in rice development projects?
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In this paper, the authors argue that failure to involve women in rice development schemes has not only increased their economic dependence on men but also a major reason for deficiencies in these projects and low national rice production.Abstract:
Agricultural development projects usually channel inputs to male household heads on the assumption that they control the land, labour, crops and finances. This assumption is challenged for the Mandinka: women cultivate rainfed rice, having ownership or use‐rights to rice land, while men control upland and grow groundnuts and millets. Both cultivate household and personal crops. Three development projects introduced irrigated rice to men who therefore control this land and crop. Failure to involve women in rice development schemes has not only increased their economic dependence on men but is also a major reason for deficiencies in these projects and low national rice production.read more
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