Engendering Agricultural Development: Dimensions and Strategies

Contents: Part-I: Gender in Agriculture Development. 1. Gender in Agriculture: A Development Perspective/Binoo P. Bonny, Akhil Ajith and Lokesh S. 2. Gender Disaggregated Data in Agriculture/Mathura Swaminathan and S. Niyati. 3. Gender Advocacy for Food and Nutritional Security/Ruchira Bhattacharya. 4. Design and Implementation of Gender Sensitive Extension Programmes/Nimisha Mittal and Rasheed Sulaiman V. 5. Public Private Partnership for Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture/K. Ponnusamy. 6. Gender in Agriculture Research: Trends Over the Years/Jayasree Krishnankutty, Shilpa Karat and Shinoji K.C. 7. Gender Dimensions in Natural Resource Management/Prema, A., Hema M. and Jyotsna C. 8. Climate Change and Gender Vulnerabilities in Agriculture/Chitra Parayil, Aiswarya T P and Binoo P. Bonny. 9. Gender Sensitization: A Step Towards Gender Inclusive Development/Sreeram Vishnu and Archana Bhatt. 10. Gender-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation: Prospects and Challenges/Archana Raghavan Sathyan and Anu Susan Sam. Part-II: Gender in Allied Sectors of Agriculture. 11. Gender Responsive Agribusiness Development: An Indian Perspective/K.P. Sudheer, Sreelakshmi K. Unni and Ann Annie Shaju. 12. Gender in Household Nutrition and Community Health/T.V. Hymavathi. 13. Gender and Livestock Development/Reeja George P. 14. Gender Roles in Fisheries and Aquaculture/Tanuja S., H.K. De, G.S. Saha, I. Sivaraman, S.K. Swain and S.K. Srivastava. 15. Gender Perspectives in Forest Management/Parvathy Venugopal and Abha Manohar, K. 16. Gender Friendly Tools and Equipments in Farm Mechanization/Suma Nair, Suresh A. and Ayisha Mangat. Part-III: Tools and Approaches in Gender Analysis. 17. Gender Analysis: Strategies and Tools/Sabita Mishra. 18. Gender Budgeting: A Tool for Women Empowerment/Smitha S. and Sulaja O.R. 19. Access and Adoption of Agricultural Technology and Interventions: A Gender Analysis/Anu Susan Sam and Archana Raghavan Sathyan. 20. Extension Toolkits for Gender Responsive Value Chain Development/Aparna Radhakrishnan and Allan Thomas. 21. Empowerment Through Rural Women Collectives/Sulaja O.R. and Smitha S. 22. Emotional Intelligence in Gender Empowerment History: Reality and Challenges/Devi Soumyaja. 23. Property Entitlement: Introspection on Women Rights/Adv. Linipriya Vasan. The book is an attempt to comprehend and compile the history, present status and future trends of gender roles in agriculture. The book comprises of three divisions viz., Gender in agriculture development (Part I), Gender in allied sectors of agriculture (Part II) and Data, Tools and approaches in gender analysis (Part III), that explicates the prevalent gendered relegations. It provides insights on the gender dimensions in Indian agriculture, including initiatives, policy reforms and mends the literature gap in gender roles in the sector. The gender roles and impacts from different cultural and geographical horizons of Indian agricultural and allied sectors in the emerging contexts of globalization, urbanization, climate change and the Covid19 pandemic is gathered in this book. The readership of the book covers academicians, researchers, students and social workers who strive towards a gender-neutral world.…