@article{Due:172491,
      recid = {172491},
      author = {Due, Jean M. and Magayane, F.},
      title = {Changes needed in agricultural policy for female-headed  farm families in tropical Africa},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {1990-12},
      number = {968-2016-75419},
      pages = {16},
      year = {1990},
      abstract = {The decline in per-capita agricultural production has been  reversed somewhat in tropical
Africa by the structural  adjustment programs which have increased producer prices,  liberalized
marketing and devalued currencies. But the  300Jo of smallholder farm households which
are  female-headed will not be assited much due to their special  constraints of shortages of
labor and credit, lack of  extension visits and appropriate labor-saving technologies.  For
these households, the authors argue, improved extension  services, credit for agricultural inputs,
small ruminant  animals and poultry, labor-saving devices and craft inputs  will be
necessary to increase their incomes and levels of  living.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/172491},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.172491},
}