英文文献:Women Farmer’s and Agriculture Growth: Challenge and Perspective for Africa face the economic crisis-妇女农民和农业增长:非洲面临的挑战和展望贫穷国家的经济危机
英文文献作者:Adeniyi, Labintan
英文文献摘要:
In poor countries the agricultural sector is essential to growth, poverty reduction, and food security. In Sub- Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector employs 65 percent of the labor force and generates 32 per cent of GDP growth (Christian Friis Bach and all, 2008).More than half of rural employment in Sub- Saharan Africa consists of self-employed farmers, many of whom are women. Women generally own less land and the land they have is often of lower quality than the land owned by men. According to the International Development Research Centre, women in Africa only own 1 per cent of the land. Women have to contend with limited access to financial and technical resources. Women lack political influence. However the recent economic crisis that has affected the food crisis may have considerable consequences on African rural women who are mostly vulnerable in African society and may increase some challenges that can limited the African agriculture growth as women is the heart of this sector in Africa even if most of politic don’t consider them in the policies. This paper is to evaluate the major effect of this crisis on this vulnerable group In Africa and define some perspective that policies maker could use for Africa Agriculture sustainable growth.. The Descriptive analysis show that the economic crisis has increase in gender inequality in agriculture sector, increase women financial credit access lack, women farmer migration, women farmer income reduction, women land access facilities reduction and their health problem has also increase. It is clear that to solve the economic crisis impact on African agriculture for sustainable growth, policies maker should include more policies which should consider women farmers. Research also should focus more on women vulnerability in agriculture face the economic crisis.
农业部门对增长、减贫和粮食安全至关重要。在撒哈拉以南非洲,农业部门雇佣了65%的劳动力,并为GDP增长贡献了32% (Christian Friis Bach and all, 2008)。撒哈拉以南非洲的农村就业人口中,有一半以上是个体经营的农民,其中许多是妇女。妇女拥有的土地一般较少,她们所拥有的土地的质量往往低于男子所拥有的土地。根据国际发展研究中心的数据,非洲妇女只拥有1%的土地。妇女必须应付获得财政和技术资源的机会有限的问题。女性缺乏政治影响力。然而最近的经济危机,已经影响到非洲粮食危机可能有相当大的影响农村妇女大多在非洲社会脆弱和可能增加一些挑战,限制了非洲农业增长,女人是这个领域的核心在非洲即使大多数政治不考虑他们的政策。本文旨在评估这场危机对非洲这一弱势群体的主要影响,并为非洲农业可持续增长的政策制定者提供一些视角。描述性分析表明,经济危机加剧了农业部门的性别不平等,增加了妇女获得金融信贷的机会,妇女农民移徙,妇女农民收入减少,妇女获得土地的设施减少,她们的健康问题也有所增加。很明显,为了解决经济危机对非洲农业的影响,实现可持续增长,政策制定者应该包括更多考虑妇女农民的政策。研究还应该更多地关注妇女在农业面临经济危机时的脆弱性。