Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women’s Livelihoods

Aruna Rao

Chapter 6 in Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods, 2012, pp 83-100 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the 1970s, research has clearly demonstrated the critical link between women’s work and agriculture and food production. Yet, development aid institutions have consistently failed in supporting women’s agricultural work. Despite staggering global hunger and poverty statistics, aid to agriculture has steadily declined over the last three decades and gender-appropriate responses have dwindled. This chapter asks: why can’t global institutions get it right? Drawing on lessons from agricultural interventions addressing women’s rights and gender equality, recent evaluations of multilateral agencies, including FAO and IFAD, as well as new insights from complexity theory and institutional practice, this chapter suggests that the answer lies partly in the fundamental contradiction between the task at hand and the nature of bureaucratic response.1

Keywords: Gender Equality; Civil Society Organization; Fundamental Contradiction; Resilient Organization; Overseas Development Institute (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-02234-9_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137022349

DOI: 10.1057/9781137022349_6

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Gender, Development and Social Change from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().