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Enhancing Female Participation in African Agricultural Transformation: The Nigerian Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Janet Olusi
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African agriculture needs to be transformed because of the persistent low productivity of the sector. Women play a major role in agriculture but are prevented from optimizing their performance due to socioeconomic factors such as lack of access to productive resources, deforestation, and air and water pollution. But the lack of women extension workers stands out as a major limitation. This paper highlights the plight of women farmers in Africa, using research results from Nigeria. Suggestions are made for improving female participation. These suggestions, the paper stresses, are viable only if the conditions of African women’s lives are improved. A careful implementation of these suggestions will hopefully transform African agriculture.

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African Issues , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 12 - 15
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1997 

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Dr. Janet Olusi is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

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2. Ibid.

3. Adekanye, T.O., “Gender Bias in African Agriculture and Sustainable Development: The Case of Nigeria,” paper presented at the international conference, “Out of the Margin, Feminist Perspectives of Economic Theory,” Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June, 1993 Google Scholar.

4. Ibid.

5. Jackson, C. , Women’s Roles and Gender Differences in Development: The Kano River Irrigation Project, USA Press: Washington, DC, 1985 Google Scholar.

6. United Nations Children’s Fund, The National Status of Women and Children in Nigeria, 1994.

7. Ibid.

8. Jackson, 1985.

9. See “A Study of the Impact of Better Life Programme on Women’s Income, Household Health and Nutrition in Nigeria,” unpublished research report submitted to the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

10. UNICEF, 1994.

11. Ibid.

12. Olusi, 1994.

13. Ibid.

14. Awe, Bolanle, “Women, Culture and the Environment,” paper presented at the National Seminar on Poverty and the Nigerian Environment organized by the Foundation for Environmental Development and Education in Nigeria (FEDEN) and the Rockefeller Foundation at the National Theatre, Lagos, 7–29 AprilGoogle Scholar.

15. The Ogoni Crisis led to the death of nine human rights advocates at the hands of the present military regime. Among the victims was Ken Saro Wiwa, a renowned writer and playwright.

16. Alfonja and Olusi, 1995.