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Title: | The Invisible Farmer? Women, Gender, and Colonial Agricultural Policy in the Igbo Region of Nigeria, c. 1913-1954 |
Author: | Korieh, Chima J. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Economic History |
Volume: | 29 |
Pages: | 117-162 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Great Britain |
Subjects: | gender relations Igbo colonialism agricultural policy women History and Exploration Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Women's Issues Development and Technology Historical/Biographical agriculture Sex Roles Cultural Roles |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601709 |
Abstract: | In Nigeria, as elsewhere in Africa, colonial officials discriminated between men and women and made the former the target of local development policy. This article focuses on the gendered nature of colonial agricultural policy and its impact on gender relations. Specifically, it considers the manner in which colonial policies, and the neglect of women farmers in particular, adversely affected agricultural development in the Igbo region of Nigeria. To reveal the gendered nature of colonial agricultural policies and the particular character of the agricultural crisis among the Igbo in some detail, the article first sketches the position of women vis-à-vis men in Igbo society and their role in exacerbating the agricultural crisis. The article then considers the details of the transformations in gender relations resulting from commercialization of the market for commodities, innovations, and the introduction of new technology. This is followed by a consideration of peasants' responses and revolts to reveal the constraints imposed on the household in general from the second half of the 1920s and women's attempts to address the crisis in the export sector of the agrarian economy. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |