Food Production; Can it be Used as a Tool in Empowerment of Rural Women? A Case Study from Turkey

Funda Gencler () and M. Metin Artukoglu ()
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Funda Gencler: Celal Bayar University, School of Applied Sciences, Turkey
M. Metin Artukoglu: Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Turkey

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2010, issue 1, 5-12

Abstract: This study contains the basics on certain problems that food producing-as an earning activity that is used empowerment of women- face in rural areas and some advice on how those difficulties could be overcome. The results of “Winpeace” project are evaluated from the point of view of women empowerment and food production. After the project, women faced several problems. Those problems are negotiated by the help of the strength and weaknesses in the presence head of the cooperative. The discussion results are highly appreciable to evolve effective thoughts about reinforcing the rural women.

Keywords: food production in rural areas; women; empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 I3 J00 O22 Q00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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