Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

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<div id="toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_about"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">About</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_structure-of-the-book"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Structure of the Book</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See Also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_external-links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External Links</span></a></li>
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</div><h2 id="w_about">About</h2>
<p>The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook presents a rich compilation of experiences, some of them ongoing, in which agricultural projects have incorporated gender-related components or adapted their operations to allow for gender variables and engage issues that affect men and women differently. It was produced jointly&nbsp;by the "World, the "FAO (FAO) of the "United, and the "International (IFAD), drawing from the operations of these three agencies. It was released on October 8, 2008. The Gender&nbsp;in Agriculture Sourcebook describes the&nbsp;very often&nbsp;great practical consequences for the respective potentials of&nbsp;women and men as agricultural producers. The experiences chronicled capture a rich blend of hopeful innovations and cautionary lessons about the importance of avoiding the pitfalls of "gender-neutral" operations in areas in which gender issues are a salient variable in agricultural production – namely in the large majority of rural settings in low-income countries where agriculture remains a major engine of economic growth. Other lessons emerge from projects in middle income developing countries.
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<h2 id="w_structure-of-the-book">Structure of the Book</h2>
<p>The Sourcebook covers 16 modules including:
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<ol><li>Food Security
</li><li>Policy and Governance
</li><li>Rural Finance
</li><li><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENAGRLIVSOUBOOK/Resources/Module4.pdf" alt="Land Policy and Administration">Land Policy and Administration</a>
</li><li><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENAGRLIVSOUBOOK/Resources/Module5.pdf" alt="Agricultural Markets">Agricultural Markets</a>
</li><li>Agricultural Water Management
</li><li>Agricultural Innovation and Education
</li><li>Agricultural Labor
</li><li>Rural Infrastructure
</li><li>Natural Resource Management
</li><li>Disaster and Post-Conflict Management
</li><li>Crop Agriculture
</li><li><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENAGRLIVSOUBOOK/Resources/Module13.pdf" alt="Fisheries and Aquaculture">Fisheries and Aquaculture</a>
</li><li>Livestock
</li><li>Forestry
</li><li>Monitoring and Evaluation.
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<p>More than 100 authors and reviewers contributed to the production of the sourcebook, which continues after the print release of the publication. An on-line edition will serve as a "living document" to which additional chapters will be added. Post print chapters already include a note on property and inheritance rights among widows and children in households affected by "HIV/AIDS/AIDS in "Women, and profiles of project activities in El Salvador and labor legislation in "Gender , among others.
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<h2 id="w_see-also">See Also</h2>
<ul><li>"Gender and Fisheries </li></ul>
<h2 id="w_external-links">External Links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENAGRLIVSOUBOOK/Resources/CompleteBook.pdf" alt="Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook – Direct link">Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook – Direct link</a> (The IBRD/WB, 2009)
</li><li>Food and Agriculture Organization&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fao.org/" alt="http://www.fao.org/">http://www.fao.org/</a>
</li><li>Download the Sourcebook at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.worldbank.org/genderinag" alt="www.worldbank.org/genderinag">www.worldbank.org/genderinag</a>&nbsp;
</li><li>Asian Fisheries Society 3rd Global Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries <a href="http://genderaquafish.org/" alt="http://genderaquafish.org/">http://genderaquafish.org/</a>
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