Trying to Grow: Gender Relations and Agricultural Innovations in Northern Ghana , by Martina A. Padmanabhan

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Ann Waters‐Bayer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Agricultural Innovations

Participation in farmer organizations and adoption of farming technologies among rice farmers in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwabena Nyarko Addai ◽  
Omphile Temoso ◽  
John N. Ng'ombe
Keyword(s):  
Selection Bias ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Farmer Organizations ◽  
Agricultural Innovations ◽  
Farmer Organization

PurposeThe authors examine the factors influencing membership in farmer organizations (FO) and their effects on the decision to adopt farm technologies by rice farmers in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a farm survey of 900 households from Northern Ghana and a recursive bivariate probit (RBP) model that accounts for selection bias and endogeneity.FindingsThe results indicate that the household head’s decision to adopt machinery and row planting increases by 38.4 and 25.3%, respectively, upon joining a farmer organization. Membership in farmer organization is positively influenced by off-farm income, asset value, farmer organization location and farmer location in Upper West region but negatively by males, age and total livestock units owned. Machinery adoption is positively influenced by membership in farmer organizations and respondent being male but negatively influenced by the years of schooling, farm size, farm distance and location of a farmer in Ghana's Upper East and West regions. Similarly, row planting adoption is positively influenced by membership in farmers' organization but adversely by farm size, farm distance and a farmer's location in Upper East region of Ghana.Research limitations/implicationsIt can be concluded that membership in farmers' organizations significantly impacts farm household head’s decision to adopt machinery and row planting in rice production, which potentially enhance crop productivity.Practical implicationsThese results show the importance of agricultural stakeholders in encouraging the formation and strengthening of farmer organizations to support the adoption of modern farming technologies.Originality/valueDeveloping literature has demonstrated that farmer organizations promote the adoption of agricultural innovations. However, most of these studies have concentrated on conventional agricultural innovations and have used methods that fail to account for potential selection bias. This paper fills this important gap.

scholarly journals Women's Fears and Men's Anxieties: The Impact of Family Planning on Gender Relations in Northern Ghana

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayaga Agula Bawah ◽  
Patricia Akweongo ◽  
Ruth Simmons ◽  
James F. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
The Impact

Gender performativity in rural northern Ghana: implications for transnational feminist theorising

2019 ◽  
pp. 146470011988130
Author(s):  
Constance Awinpoka Akurugu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
West African ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Ideal Woman ◽  
Rural Context ◽  
North Western

In this article, I draw on theories of gender performativity and on postcolonial African feminisms to develop an account of femininities in the rural context of northern Ghana. In doing this, I reflect on Judith Butler’s theory of gender as performative, that is, as constituted by the reiterative power of discourse to create and also constrain that which it names. Through an analysis of the findings from my participant observation fieldwork amongst the Dagaaba community in Serekpere in north-western Ghana, I demonstrate that there exists a profound resonance between the theories of performativity of gender and Dagaaba constructions of gender identities and power relations. The key assumptions of performativity theories are instructive in helping to make sense of the subtleties of gendered performance and power relations in this Dagaaba community. This article diverges from Butlerian theories of gender performativity by focusing on heteronormative marriage practices and the role they play in forming gendered identities. In this regard, it participates in acts of cultural translation – between European and North American settings and a West African milieu. Based on my analysis of the performative practices that constitute gender relations amongst the Dagaaba, I argue that femininity can be understood as forming a continuum, namely: ‘ideal woman’, ‘woman’ and ‘beyond woman’.

Men's Negative Reaction to Loss of Power in Gender Relations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Exposito ◽  
Miguel Moya ◽  
Maria del Carmen Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Negative Reaction

Relationships, Gender Relations, and Hope in Women in STEM Majors

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhea Owens ◽  
Karen D. Multon ◽  
Barbara A. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Stem Majors

The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Neo-Victorian ‘Neo-Man’

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Stetz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
New Man ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Victorian Age

The New Man was a crucial topic of discussion and a continual preoccupation in late-Victorian feminist writing, precisely because he was more often a wished-for presence than an actual one. Nevertheless, creators of neo-Victorian fiction and film repeatedly project him backwards onto the screen of literary history, representing him as having in fact existed in the Victorian age as a complement to the New Woman. What is at stake in retrospectively situating the New Man – or, as I will call him, the ‘Neo-Man’ – in the nineteenth century, through historical fiction? If one impulse behind fictional returns to the Victorian period is nostalgia, then what explains this nostalgia for The Man Who Never Was? This essay will suggest that neo-Victorian works have a didactic interest in transforming present-day readers, especially men, through depictions of the Neo-Man, which broaden the audience's feminist sympathies, queer its notions of gender relations, and alter its definition of masculinity.

Caring Masculinities and Flexibilisation of Labour Markets: Fathers in Precarious and Managerial Employment in Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Majda Hrženjak ◽  
Živa Humer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Limited Participation ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Young Fathers ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Managerial Positions

The starting point of this article is that transition from breadwinning to involved fathering is not only a matter of men’s identity change, but is profoundly shaped by broader societal structures, among which labour markets appear as crucial. Given that in Slovenia flexibilisation of the labour markets is a salient issue, this qualitative study, based on explorative, in-depth, semi-structured, individual interviews with fathers in precarious and managerial employment, analyses how insecure and flexible work arrangements shape fatherhood practices, impact on chances for being an involved father and structure gender relations. Narratives of fathers in managerial positions point to the persistence of the breadwinner model of fathering with limited participation in childcare, expressed as “weekend fatherhood,” but also to a more egalitarian share of childcare mainly among young fathers in managerial positions. Though the experiences of fathers in precarious employment point to their pronounced involvement in childcare, some cases in our sample indicate that precarious working relations can also, in a peculiar way, lead to the strengthening of the breadwinner model and re-traditionalisation of gender relations.

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