Engendered promises, gendered challenges : Changing patterns of labor, control and benefits among smallholder households growing NERICA in Uganda
Författare
Summary, in English
The research results are presented in three articles. I show that for many smallholder households, especially those headed by women, NERICA has turned out to be an economic opportunity in terms of cash income that goes unmatched. I also show that many women in male-headed households are more successful in bargaining for shares of the NERICA proceeds than they ever have been in relation to the proceeds from traditional cash crops like tobacco. At the same time, I identify several gendered challenges in relation to the production of NERICA in Uganda. These are related to, on one hand, female-headed households’ worse access to land and remunerative markets than male-headed households, which is constraining their production and market performance in relation to NERICA, and, on the other, the extreme labor burdens that NERICA demands in bird and weed control, which affects women and children’s wellbeing negatively by exacerbating their time poverty and energy expense.
My thesis can be read as a gender-informed analysis of the recent surge of NERICA in Hoima District, Uganda. But the concern of the thesis goes beyond both NERICA and Uganda. It points to the value of considering female- and male-headed households’ various endowments and capabilities in specific localities, as well as differences in gendered resources, roles and responsibilities among women and men farmers (and their children) in these localities, when new productivity-enhancing agricultural technology and higher-value crops are introduced.
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Meddelande från Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi vid Lunds universitet. Avhandlingar
Issue
1
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- Agricultural development
- new technology
- gender
- NERICA
- smallholder farmers
- income effects
- labor intensity
- intrahousehold bargaining
- resource allocation
- distributional outcomes
- Hoima District
- Uganda
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Afrint team
Handledare
- Magnus Jirström
- Göran Djurfeldt
- Susan Paulson
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-979006-4-5
Försvarsdatum
13 april 2012
Försvarstid
10:15
Försvarsplats
Sal 111 (Världen), Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10, Lund
Opponent
- Margaret Kroma (Dr.)