Farm Women and the Empowerment Potential in Value‐Added Agriculture

Wright, Wynne; Annes, Alexis

doi:10.1111/ruso.12105

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“…Farmers, as knowledge holders, perform a role in educating, counselling and transmitting, by raising tourists' awareness about food production. As shown by other authors in other contexts (Trauger et al, 2010;Wright and Annes, 2016), these results show that the farm becomes more than the site of agricultural production, it stands as a civic instrument to serve social interests as well.…”

Section: Touring the Farmsupporting

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Staging agriculture during on-farm markets: How does French farmers' rationality influence their representation of rurality?

Annes

Bessière

2018

Journal of Rural Studies

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To cite this version:Alexis Annes, Jacinthe Bessière. Staging agriculture during on-farm markets: How does French farmers' rationality influence their representation of rurality?. Journal of Rural Studies, Elsevier, 2018, 63, pp. Abstract:While a significant number of French farms are diversifying into tourism as a remedy for farm financial stress, less clear is the extent to which this diversification process can create dialogue and understanding between the farm and the non-farm populations. In this article, we explore how agritourism can allow farmers to engage in the social debate surrounding agriculture, and to shape and control their image by getting beyond mere cultural conventions. Based on 15 interviews with farmers we focus on their "performance" of rurality during onfarm markets, an emerging and popular form of on-farm tourism, providing an opportunity for re-imagining agriculture. Our hypothesis is that the various ways of engaging with agritourism may shape differently how agriculture is put on show. Our results suggest that if our interviewees share common staging and choreographic devices when setting up their onfarm market (such as cleaning, tidying up the farm, or organizing farm tours and visits), two different rationales emerged. Based on these two rationales, one being more aligned with substantive rationality while the other is closer to formal rationality, specific staging and choreographing are at work, with different implications regarding the extent to which cultural conventions are being challenged.

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Section: Touring the Farmsupporting

confidence: 73%

Staging agriculture during on-farm markets: How does French farmers' rationality influence their representation of rurality?

Annes

Bessière

2018

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…This work contributes to the literature on gender and farm diversification in general and in particular on the potential of social farming to empower women. Moreover, the concept of women's empowerment has mainly been applied in the context of developing countries [6,13]. With this paper, we contribute to the understanding of this process in other settings.…”

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“…Lately, owing to the emerging relevance of farm-diversification strategies in European family farms, new opportunities for women to obtain their own space of action have opened up [11]. Thanks to their innovative entrepreneurial engagement in the frame of a multifunctional agriculture, women make use of and demonstrate their manifold skills and competences [12] and increase the visibility of their important work in society [5,13]. Additionally, they break out of the dependency trap by gaining a personal income [11].…”

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Farms in Progress-Providing Childcare Services as a Means of Empowering Women Farmers in South Tyrol, Italy

2020

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In recent years, social farming has developed into an opportunity for income diversification in the South Tyrolean agricultural sector. In the northern Italian province, predominantly women farmers implement the provision of social services on farms. Starting from rural gender studies and women empowerment-literature, we hypothesize that social farming promotes the empowerment of the involved women. Accordingly, our study investigates the recognized impacts of offering farm-based childcare services on three types of power: power to, power with, and power within. In order to test our hypothesis, we conducted semi-structured interviews with seven women farmers that provide childcare services and with four experts. The results show that the provision of childcare services has enhanced the autonomy of women farmers and has had positive impacts on their skills and competences. This activity has changed their social role in the community by revalorizing rural lifestyles and by enabling the reconciliation of work and personal life for working mothers. Nevertheless, women farmers have recognized some negative effects on their workload, and on their interfamilial as well as other social relations. Finally, the study discusses the relationship between the specific ethno-linguistic context in South Tyrol and the effects of the activity of childcare provision on women farmers’ empowerment.

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“…The coefficient of gender of the farmer shows that the probability of value addition reduces for being male. This may be indicative of the socio-cultural attachment of women to agricultural value addition in general and within the cassava system in particular [48,49]. An increase in the land area available to the farmer was found to increase value addition in cassava.…”

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Value Addition and Productivity Differentials in the Nigerian Cassava System

Adeyemo

Okoruwa

2018

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There is an increasing need to improve value addition in order to get maximum utility from agricultural systems. Using a retrospective panel data from 482 cassava farmers covering the years 2015–2017, this study examined the effect of value addition on productivity of farmers in the cassava system in Nigeria. We analysed a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis to examine productivity across cassava production systems over the three year period. We also examined the impact of value addition on productivity using an endogenous switching regression to account for unobservables that determine the decision to add value and productivity of the farmers. The study found that cost and revenue outlays increased with value addition. Cassava farmers in general operated below the efficiency frontier, with total productivity declining over the 2015–2017 period. However, higher value addition farmers had better efficiency and non-reducing productivity in the periods studied. We found evidence of selection bias in the decision to add value and productivity of the farmers. The conditional and unconditional outcome estimates revealed positive gains in productivity with value addition, confirming the hypothesis that value addition increases farming households’ productivity. We recommend that essential services such as extension services, agricultural training, and ease of enterprise registration that drive agricultural value addition be made available to farmers.

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Farm Women and the Empowerment Potential in Value‐Added Agriculture

Cited by 53 publications

References 50 publications

Staging agriculture during on-farm markets: How does French farmers' rationality influence their representation of rurality?

Staging agriculture during on-farm markets: How does French farmers' rationality influence their representation of rurality?

Farms in Progress-Providing Childcare Services as a Means of Empowering Women Farmers in South Tyrol, Italy

Value Addition and Productivity Differentials in the Nigerian Cassava System

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