@article{Mehra:183400,
      recid = {183400},
      author = {Mehra, Rekha},
      title = {Raising Agricultural Productivity: The Role of Women  Farmers},
      address = {1995},
      number = {998-2016-78012},
      pages = {17},
      year = {1995},
      abstract = {Substantial gains have been made over the past 30 years in  enhancing agricultural
productivity in developing  countries. In the 1980s alone, food production
increased by  39 per cent. The record is not, however, as impressive in  terms of
food production per capita, which increased by  only 13 per cent in the same
decade, and declined in 75  developing countries, representing three quarters of
those  in Africa, two-thirds of those in Latin America, and half  the countries of
Asia (Pinstrup-Andersen, 1994). There is a  continuing need to raise agricultural
output and  productivity in developing countries, both to ensure  food
availability and to raise the incomes of the large  number of rural people who
are poor and depend on  agriculture for their livelihoods, so that they have
better  access to food and other necessities which they currently  lack.
Women represent a large and significant group of  farmers who, so far, have
been relatively neglected in  attempts to raise farmer productivity. This is
because  development planners and policy makers, as well as  agricultural research
scientists and programme  implementors, are mostly unaware of the
roles women play in  agriculture, the contributions they make and their  potential
for raising farm production. This paper attempts  to draw attention to
women's roles in agriculture and to  improve understanding of their capabilities
and constraints  so that policies and programmes can be better designed  to
assist them.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/183400},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.183400},
}