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Title:'Hot money': gender and the politics of negotiation and control over income in West African smallholder households
Author:Somé, Batamaka
Year:2013
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute (ISSN 0001-9720)
Volume:83
Issue:2
Pages:251-269
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:small farms
women
household income
empowerment
Dagari
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_the_journal_of_the_international_african_institute/v083/83.2.some.pdf
Abstract:Most development interventions targeting rural women's economic empowerment measure success through returns from women's on-farm or off-farm activities and the income they generate. This article suggests that special emphasis needs to be laid on income control, not just its generation, in order to take account of the more or less subtle sociocultural obstacles and other structures of constraint hindering women in this regard. The article draws from ethnographic case studies conducted for a doctoral dissertation project in southwest Burkina Faso to show how women in cotton farming zones strategize to circumvent customary rules and control their on-farm incomes. The context is an organic cotton farming project targeting women. The author argues that understanding these constraints and strategies provides policymakers and development practitioners with tools for a better grasp of the social landscape and that this, in turn, enables them to reach empowerment goals. Bibliogr., note, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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