Reversing the Spiral - The Population, Agriculture, and Environment Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa (WB, 1994, 320 p.): 5. The role of women in production systems: Notes

Reversing the Spiral - The Population, Agriculture, and Environment Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa (WB, 1994, 320 p.)

5. The role of women in production systems

		(introduction...)
		The female - headed household syndrome
		The gender division of rural labor and fanning systems
		The separation of budgets
		Women, food security, and nutrition
		Farm technology and gender
		Women's time use and productivity
		Notes

Notes

1. In Lesotho, about 60 percent of all males aged 20-44 are employed in South African mines (Plate and others 1987).

2. Men's remittances are often small' since they themselves are poorly remunerated, have to pay for their own food and lodging, may have taken a second wife, or prefer to retain their savings for major purchases of their own. Remittances tend to be used to purchase essential food supplies. Sometimes they are used to buy fertilizers and hire labor. Only rarely are remittances sufficient to permit investment in labor saving machinery or livestock

3. Household size; gender and age composition; resource endowment; differential gender access to resources, services, equipment, credit, information, employment, markets, etc.