Agency, Gender and Development in Oromia, Ethiopia
This paper argues that the postcolonial revolution in knowledge about gender and power relations has not touched the agricultural sector nor literature. Using the validation data from a medium-n qualitative data study in Amhara and Oromia, Ethiopia, the paper presents a case study on farm gate selli...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2022-02-01
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| Series: | Cadernos de Estudos Africanos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cea/5991 |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that the postcolonial revolution in knowledge about gender and power relations has not touched the agricultural sector nor literature. Using the validation data from a medium-n qualitative data study in Amhara and Oromia, Ethiopia, the paper presents a case study on farm gate selling to show how a nuclear family model is shaped by power relations that are seeded in the colonial past and yet are reproduced in the present. Ethiopian men do not share resources equally with their wife/family. So, women need to ‘help themselves’ to the stored harvest to manage the household’s needs. The paper shows how food security projects, and even those that aim to reduce post-harvest loss can be socially and economically disruptive. |
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| ISSN: | 1645-3794 2182-7400 |