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Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women’s Livelihoods

In: Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

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  • Aruna Rao

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Since the 1970s, research has clearly demonstrated the critical link between women’s work and agriculture and food production. Yet, development aid institutions have consistently failed in supporting women’s agricultural work. Despite staggering global hunger and poverty statistics, aid to agriculture has steadily declined over the last three decades and gender-appropriate responses have dwindled. This chapter asks: why can’t global institutions get it right? Drawing on lessons from agricultural interventions addressing women’s rights and gender equality, recent evaluations of multilateral agencies, including FAO and IFAD, as well as new insights from complexity theory and institutional practice, this chapter suggests that the answer lies partly in the fundamental contradiction between the task at hand and the nature of bureaucratic response.1

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  • Aruna Rao, 2012. "Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women’s Livelihoods," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Wendy Harcourt (ed.), Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods, chapter 6, pages 83-100, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-02234-9_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137022349_6
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