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Journal article

Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

01/07/2013

16 pages long

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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

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A wide range of development actors play a major role in initiating, supporting, and promoting collective action of various forms, which aims to secure economic and wider benefits to women, through improving their engagement in markets. But there is limited understanding of what works for rural women in terms of their participation in collective action, […]

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Research report

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

27/03/2013

3 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Development actors are increasingly prioritising ‘investing in women’ to ensure food security and sustainability-as well as equity-in agricultural development. In this context, collective action is a critical but poorly understood way for women small-scale farmers to strengthen their engagement in agricultural markets. This report provides rigorous new evidence, from quantitative and qualitative research carried out […]

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Research report

Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets: Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania

01/10/2011

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents an analytical framework and preliminary findings from the second phase of the Researching Women’s Collective Action project. It documents participatory field research in Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania, covering 15 agricultural sub-sectors. Findings are reported on women smallholders’ motivations and capacities to engage in collective action, as well as on gender-based patterns and […]

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Case study

Small Farmers, Big Change: Lessons from Oxfam’s agricultural programmes: An overview

09/06/2011

3 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s Global Agricultural Scale Up Initiative (GASUI) was launched in 2005 with the aims of reducing poverty for millions of smallholder farmers, particularly women; driving economic growth by linking farmers into new and wider market opportunities; and advocating for increased donor, government, and private sector investment to support smallholder farming. For Oxfam, ‘scale-up’ refers to […]

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Briefing paper

Pricing Farmers out of Cotton: The costs of World Bank reforms in Mali

15/03/2007

3 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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With global trade talks stalled at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), rich-country cotton subsidies remain unabated, hurting poor cotton farmers. World Bank led reforms to privatise the Malian cotton sector, including the adoption of a new price- setting mechanism, are further exacerbating the dire conditions in cotton-producing communities. A minimum level of price stability is […]

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Research report

The Impact of the Second-hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries

01/09/2005

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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The global trade in second-hand clothing (SHC) is worth more than $1 billion each year. Supporters of the SHC industry point out that the trade creates employment in the receiving countries (transporting, cleaning, repairing, restyling, etc.). It also provides low-cost clothing for people living in poverty. At the same time, however, there are concerns that […]

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Briefing paper

White Gold Turns to Dust: Which way forward for cotton in West Africa?

01/03/2004

2 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French

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West African farmers continue to face severe deprivation because of depressed cotton prices. One factor is the dumping of exports from the USA, where overproduction is the result of government handouts worth $2.3bn. The US government shamefully disregarded the Africans when they took their complaint to the WTO, but the issue remains high on the […]

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Women’s collective action in African agricultural markets: the limits of current development practice for rural women’s empowerment

Women’s Collective Action: Unlocking the potential of agricultural markets

Women’s Collective Action in Agricultural Markets: Synthesis of preliminary findings from Ethiopia, Mali, and Tanzania

Small Farmers, Big Change: Lessons from Oxfam’s agricultural programmes: An overview

Pricing Farmers out of Cotton: The costs of World Bank reforms in Mali

The Impact of the Second-hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries

White Gold Turns to Dust: Which way forward for cotton in West Africa?