Papers presented at the workshop (in alphabetical order)* / Only final versions are published (please visit the web site regularly for updates)

ALIMDJANOVA Dinara. ‘Gender aspects of agricultural and rural employment: application for Uzbekistan’. Gender Study Center (Uzbekistan).

ANDERSON Leigh, CULLEN A., FLETSCHNER D., GOCKEL R., GORDON A., NGUYEN M.. ‘Decision Making and Tensions between Gender and Market Approaches to Rural Development Policy’. University of Washington (USA), Institute for Family and Gender Studies (Vietnam).

APPENDINI Kirsten. ‘Gender dimensions of change: livelihood strategies in rural Mexico’. El Colegio de México (Mexico).

ASHRAFI Hedayatullah. ‘Gender dimension of agriculture and rural employment specially focus on afghan rural women’s access to agriculture and rural development sector’. Afghanistan National Development Strategy, Office of the Prime Minister Compound (Afghanistan).

CHOWDHURY Jahangir Alam. ‘Microcredit, Microenterprises, and Self-employment of Women: experience from the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh’. University of Dhaka (Bangladesh).

DE LANGE Albertine. ‘Gender dimensions of rural child labour in Africa’. FAO Regional Office for Africa (Ghana). 

DOSS Cheryl, GROWN Caren, DEERE Carmen Diana. ‘Collecting individual level asset data for gender analysis of poverty and rural employment’. Yale University (USA), University of Florida (USA).

ESIM Simel and OMEIRA Mansour. ‘Rural Women Producers and Cooperatives in Conflict Settings in Arab States’. ILO, Regional Office for Arab States (Lebanon).

FIGUEIREDO Nelly and BRANCHI Bruna. ‘Evolution of poverty and income distribution in Brazilian rural: an analysis by gender between 1992 and 2007’. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (Brazil).

GEORGE Christy. ‘Land tenure system – an obstacle to gender sensitive poverty alleviation in the oil rich rural Niger Delta’. Kate Bee Foundation (Nigeria).

GÜRKAN Ceren and SANOGO Issa. ‘Food poverty, livelihoods and employment constraints: the structural differences between rural poverty in female- and male-headed households’. World Food Programme (Italy).

GUTIERREZ Maria Teresa. ‘Gender participation in labour-based projects: an approach to the project cycle’. ILO EMP/INVEST.

HAMBLY Helen and SARAPURA Silvia. ‘Ensuring gender equality in capacity development – opportunities for rural employment and sustainable development’. University of Guelph (Canada).

HARTL Maria. ‘Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and skills development for poverty reduction – do rural women benefit?’.  IFAD (Italy).

HERTZ Tom, WINTERS Paul, DE LA O Ana Paula, QUIÑONES Esteban J., AZZARI Carlo, DAVIS Benjamin and ZEZZA Alberto. ‘Wage inequality in international perspective: effects of location, sector, and gender’. FAO (Italy). 

JÜTTING Johannes and MORRISSON Christian. ‘Women, bad jobs, rural area: what can "SIGI" tell us?‘. OECD (France).

KELKAR Govind. ‘Gender and productive assets: Implications of national rural employment guarantee for women’s agency and productivity’. UNIFEM consultant (India).

KIMHI Ayal. ‘Rural non-farm employment and income inequality in southern Ethiopia: the gender dimension’. The Hebrew University (Israel).

KING DEJARDIN Amelita and BIGOTTA Maurizio. ‘Work, income and gender: rural-urban dimensions’. ILO (Switzerland). ***

MAERTENS Miet and SWINNEN Johan F.M.. ‘Are modern supply chains bearers of gender inequality?’  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).

MASHIRI Mac, CHAKWIZIRA James and NHEMACHENA Charles. ‘Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty – experiences from South Africa’. CSIR Built Environment (Zambia).

MUZA Olivia. ‘Informal employment, gender and vulnerability in agriculture-based rural economies: evidence from Masvingo province in Zimbabwe’.  Consultant (Zimbabwe).

NANAVATY Reema**. ‘Livelihood and Agriculture Finance A Vital Tool to Fight Poverty -The SEWA Experience’. SEWA (India).

NAYAK Nandini and KHERA Reetika. ‘Women workers and perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India’. School of Oriental and African Studies (United Kingdom), Delhi School of Economics (India).

PARIS Thelma, ROLA-RUBZEN Maria Fay, LUIS Joyce, NGOC CHI Truong Thi, WONGSANUM Chaicharn and VILLANUEVA Donald. ‘The impact of labor out migration on rice farming households and gender roles: synthesis of findings in Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam’. International Rice Research Institute (The Philippines), Curtin University of Technology (Australia), Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute (Vietnam), and Khon Kaen University (Thailand).

PELLIZZOLI Roberta. ‘Gender, agriculture, and the “efficient producer” discourse: a case study from Mozambique, and lessons from South Africa’. University of Bologna (Italy).      

SALAZAR Lina and QUISUMBING Agnes. ‘Assessing the impact of gendered labour markets in the rural Philippines’. American University (USA) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (USA).

SANCAR Annemarie and BIERI Sabin. ‘Power and poverty. Reducing gender inequality by ways of rural employment?’. Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (Switzerland) and the Swiss Development Agency (Switzerland).

SERRA Renata. ‘Gender, farm and off-farm activities in Africa: the role of time poverty and associated risk'.  University of Florida (USA).

SONG Yiching, Linxiu Zhang, SUN Dajiang, SUN Qiu and JIGGINS Janice. ‘Feminization of agriculture and ageing of agricultural producers in rapidly changing China: policy implications and alternatives for equitable growth and sustainable development’. Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (China), Yuan Academy of Social Science (China), Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Science (China), Wageningen University (The Netherlands).

SRIVASTAVA Nisha and SRIVASTAVA Ravi. ‘Women, work, and employment outcomes in rural India’. University of Allahabad (India), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India).

THINH H. B.. ‘Rural employment and life: Challenges to gender role in Vietnam's agriculture at present’. Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (Vietnam).

TIBBO Markos, RISCHKOWSKY B., TARIQ B., SALEHY P., KHAN M.A., ANWAR M. Z., MANAN A.R., ABDELALI-MARTINI M. and A. AW-HASSAN. ‘Gender sensitive research enhances agricultural employment in conservative societies: the case of women livelihoods and dairy goat programme in Afghanistan and Pakistan’. International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (Syria), Social Sciences Institute (Pakistan).

TOLSTOKOROVA Alissa. ‘Multiple marginalities: gender dimension of rural poverty, unemployment and labour migration in Ukraine’. International School for Equal Opportunities Kyiv (Ukraine).

VIGNERI Marcella and HOLMES Rebecca. ‘When being more productive still doesn’t pay: gender inequality and socio-economic constraints in Ghana’s cocoa sector’. Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom).

WEERATUNGE Nireka and SNYDER Katherine. ‘Gleaner, fisher, trader, processor: understanding gendered employment in the fisheries and aquaculture sector’. World Fish Center (Malaysia, Malawi).

WICKRAMASINGHE Anoja. ‘Agricultural Commercialization in Tackling Issues of Poverty and Gender Inequality in Rural Agrarian Economies: a case study’. University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka).

 

*Authors marked in bold will be presenting the papers at the Workshop.

**Paper will be presented by Chhaya Bhavsar 

*** Unreviewed draft version of the paper. Final version will be available after the Workshop.