Women's Roles in Technical Innovation: Food Cycle Technology Source Book (Food Techology Source Book Series (UNIFEM))

Ilkkaracan, Ipek/ Appleton, Helen

ISBN 10: 185339307X / ISBN 13: 9781853393075

Published by Intermediate Technology, 1995

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illustrated edition. 88 pages. 9.50x6.70x0.40 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Roles in Technical Innovation: Food Cycle Technology Source Book (Food Techology Source Book Series (UNIFEM))
• Publisher: Intermediate Technology
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185339307X
• ISBN 13: 9781853393075
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.26 kilograms

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Synopsis

Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge, and its extent. It goes on to explore women's role in the innovation process and how technical innovation has conventionally ignored this. This argument is illustrated through case studies and lessons; and the book ends with guidelines for development practitioners working with women.

About the Author

UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas: (1) reducing feminized poverty, (2) ending violence against women, (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war.