Short description:

This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture. This book identify crisis which a woman faces in the field of agriculture as a farmer. The book shares unsung stories of women farmers who are bringing change at the grassroots. It puts together the positive developments experienced by the experts, researchers, professional while working for and with women farmers, to highlight the challenges to bring equity in agriculture.

Women in agriculture often lack identity where either they are recognized as farmer?s wife or a farm labourer. Women farmers who contribute 60 percent in to farm practices like sowing, transplanting, fertilizer application, weeding, harvesting, winnowing are merely recognised and provided an equal level playing field. Women are also found participating in the various forms of processing and marketing of agriculture produce, along with the cultivation but system has failed to protect their rights and offer them a platform to voice their concerns.  This book shares the process, challenges, experience, strategy from the narrative of progressive women farmers so as to highlight and understand what it takes to bring changes for achieving the goals of an equitable farming ecosystems. The book is a relevant reading material for students, researchers, professionals and policy advocates in agriculture and gender research.

Long description:

This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture. This book identify crisis which a woman faces in the field of agriculture as a farmer. The book shares unsung stories of women farmers who are bringing change at the grassroots. It puts together the positive developments experienced by the experts, researchers, professional while working for and with women farmers, to highlight the challenges to bring equity in agriculture.

Women in agriculture often lack identity where either they are recognized as farmer?s wife or a farm labourer. Women farmers who contribute 60 percent in to farm practices like sowing, transplanting, fertilizer application, weeding, harvesting, winnowing are merely recognised and provided an equal level playing field. Women are also found participating in the various forms of processing and marketing of agriculture produce, along with the cultivation but system has failed to protect their rights and offer them a platform to voice their concerns.  This book shares the process, challenges, experience, strategy from the narrative of progressive women farmers so as to highlight and understand what it takes to bring changes for achieving the goals of an equitable farming ecosystems. The book is a relevant reading material for students, researchers, professionals and policy advocates in agriculture and gender research.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Unheard Being Heard: Women Farmers- An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Mainstreaming women farmers: Innovations and Approach.- Chapter 3. Women Farmers or the Farmers? Wives: Unveiling the Negotiated Gender Roles.- Chapter 4. Women farmers, constraints, and policy around them to harness maximum benefit.- Chapter 5. Challenges and Lessons Learned in Mainstreaming Gender into Rice Research and Technology Development: a case in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.- Chapter 6. Women farmers in South Asia: Training needs and Aspiration.- Chapter 7. Is scale-appropriate farm mechanization gendered? Learning from Nepal hills.- Chapter 8. Land rights of Women in India: How much has changed after 2005.- Chapter 9. Transformative approaches to empower tribal farmwomen of Ladakh cold arid Himalayan deserts: Challenges & Solutions.- Chapter 10. Extent of participation of farm women in decision making regarding agricultural activities.- Chapter 11. Empowering Women Farmers through Drudgery reductionand Nutritional Diversity: A KVK, Nalanda-ICAR (Government of India) Initiative.- Chapter 12. Women Farmers and Technologies in Agriculture: A review of current practices.