This issue of Feminist Africa revisits rural women and agricultural livelihoods, focusing on the persistence of contexts that compromise their ability to benefit from development interventions. An accumulation of studies over the years have set out to unravel the hindering factors. Some such studies, premised on the economic efficiency argument, push for greater attention to women’s productivity in rural agriculture. These studies note that women’s enhanced productivity could increase agricultural output and end poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in rural communities (Agarwal, 2011; Kelkar, 2013; Kumase et al., 2010).
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Editorial
Gendered Tensions in Rural Livelihoods and Development and Interventions
– by Akua Opokua Britwum
Features
Gendered Terms of Incorporation and Exclusion in Rural Mozambique: Unpacking Pre-existing Inequalities and Mechanisms of Compensation
- by Natacha Bruna
Women and Land Ownership in Zimbabwe: A Review of the Land Reforms with Particular Focus on the Fast Track Land Reform Programme
- by Petronella Munemo, Joseph Manzvera, and Innocent Agbelie
Challenging Gender Orders? Small Ruminant Husbandry Interventions in Ghana’s Upper West Region
- by Patricia Abena Tawiah Aboe, Akua Opokua Britwum, and Ernest L. Okorley
Bridging Development Interventions and Women’s Empowerment in Ghana: Reflections from Radical Feminist Perspectives
- by Loretta Baidoo
Standpoint
Improving Rural Women’s Access to Productive Resources: Are the Low Hanging Fruits Too Low to Make a Difference?
- by Faustina Obeng Adomaa
In a Conversation
Working with the State to Secure Rural Women’s Rights – Akua O. Britwum speaks with Rizwana Waraich
Reviews
A Magnifying Glass and a Fine-Tooth Comb: Understanding Girls’ 129 and Young Women’s Sexual Vulnerability by Mzikazi Nduna
- by Jamela Robertson
Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun
- by Sharon Adetutu Omotoso
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
- by Monique Kwachou