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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.ISNI
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]
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