Challenging chains to change : gender equity in agricultural value chain development /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Royal Tropical Institute ; Arnhem, The Netherlands : Agri-ProFocus ; Nairobi, Kenya : International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, 2012. |
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| Description: | xxi, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9107600 |
Table of Contents:
- Boxes
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Poverty and gender inequality in agriculture
- 1.2. Gender and value chains: Strange bedfellows?
- 1.3. About this book
- 2. Why focus on gender equity in agricultural value chains?
- 2.1. Presenting the arguments
- 2.2. Which arguments to use?
- 3. Analytical framework
- 3.1. A starting point: Chain empowerment
- 3.2. A gender critique of upgrading strategies
- 3.3. Basic concepts for engendering chain empowerment
- 3.4. Making gender intrinsic to chain empowerment
- 3.5. Analysing the cases in this book
- 4. Mitigating resistance by building on tradition
- 4.1. Shea: Professionalizing informal female chains
- Case 4.1. New vigour in a shea butter union in Guinea
- Case 4.2. When trees mean empowerment in Ghana
- Making butter out of shea
- 4.2. Livestock: From traditional responsibilities to new opportunities
- Case 4.3. A livestock market empowers women in northern Kenya
- Case 4.4. Rebuilding after the tsunami: Chickens in Tamil Nadu, India
- Taking stock of livestock
- 4.3. Dairy: Transforming systems through new roles for women
- Case 4.5. Developing opportunities in dairying in northern Sri Lanka
- Case 4.6. Training livestock health workers in Bangladesh
- Making more from milk
- 4.4. Improving women's position through green agriculture
- Case 4.7. Natural rice farming in Java, Indonesia
- Case 4.8. Organic vegetables: An opportunity for Mayan women in Guatemala
- Green agriculture and benefits for women
- 4.5. Conclusions
- 5. Creating space for women
- 5.1. Positioning and engaging women in male-dominated chains
- Case 5.1. Women and bees? Impossible! Honey in Rwanda
- Case 5.2. "Women don't climb trees": Beekeeping in Ethiopia
- Case 5.3. Making women dairy farmers visible in Nicaragua
- Women in a man's world
- 5.2. Female entrepreneurship
- Case 5.4. Women-run restaurants in Bolivia
- Case 5.5. Hedge funds: Jatropha in Tanzania
- Women building businesses
- 5.3. Conclusions
- 6. Organizing for change
- 6.1. Capacity building
- Case 6.1. Women rice farmers in Mali master their crop
- Case 6.2. A strong coffee from western Uganda
- New abilities, new capacity
- 6.2. Collective action
- Case 6.3. Money doesn't grow on trees: It grows on the ground!
- Case 6.4. Aonla: Changing the lives of rural women in India
- Getting together
- 6.3. Sensitizing men
- 6.4. Financing value chains for women
- Case 6.5. Microfinance for women entrepreneurs in the Philippines
- Financing women
- 6.5. Conclusions
- 7. Standards, certification and labels
- 7.1. Labels and seals: Selling women's participation
- Case 7.1. Café Femenino: Empowering women in rural Peru
- Case 7.2. The "Con Manos de Mujer" standard in Guatemala
- Products "produced by women"
- 7.2. Making use of existing third-party certified standards
- Case 7.3. Helping women benefit from organic farming in Uganda and Tanzania
- Case 7.4. Gender and geraniums: Ikirezi natural products in Rwanda
- Case 7.5. A new blend: Bringing women into the coffee chain in Kenya
- Using existing standards and certification channels
- 7.3. Conclusions
- 8. Gender-responsible business
- 8.1. Corporate social responsibility and shared value
- Case 8.1. Allanblackia seeds in Muheza, Tanzania
- Case 8.2. Fostering a socially responsible business: Cynara Peru
- 8.2. Becoming a better business for women
- 9. Conclusions
- 9.1. Going back to the arguments
- 9.2. Choosing the right strategy
- 9.3. Engendering the chain empowerment matrix
- 9.4. A final word on gender and value chain development
- 10. Approaches, tools and resources
- 10.1. Approaches in practice
- Approach 1. Gender Action Learning System
- Approach 2. Integrating gender into agricultural value chains
- Approach 3. Gendered economic competitiveness
- 10.2. Tools
- Tool 1. Selecting a value chain to improve
- Tool 2. Analysing the chain from a gender perspective at the macro, meso and micro levels
- Tool 3. Gender mapping
- Tool 4. Cost and benefits for men and women
- Tool 5. Democratic decision-making: Household vs producer organization
- 10.3. Reference guides and websites
- References
- Participants' profiles
