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Books on: african women farmers

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Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers

Book by Christina H. Gladwin; University of Florida Press, 1991

Subjects:

Agricultural Subsidies--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses, Agriculture And State--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses, Women Agricultural Laborers--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses, Women Farmers--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses

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...adjustment policies on women and their families be...steps being taken by African women themselves to solve...for women do to help African women farmers and traders as producers...What, if anything, are African universities and the...
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Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Book by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo; University of North Carolina Press, 1996

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African American Women--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Social Conditions, African Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Migrations--History--20th Century, Rural-Urban Migration--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th Century, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...for example, black farmers owned only 66 percent...more than 37,000 African American farmers left...percent of all black women in the labor force were...professional opportunities, women still confronted limits...violent whites drove African Americans out of the...
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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965

Book by Ann D. Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas; University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Subjects:

African American Women Social Reformers--History, African American Women--Political Activity--History, African Americans--Suffrage--History, Suffragists--United States--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the actions of Fayette farmers opened up possibilities...struggle as a whole. These farmers showed that African American residents of...southern rural black women during this time period...Fannie Lou Hamer Chicago: Women for Racial and Economic...
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Race, Gender, and Leadership: Re-Envisioning Organizational Leadership from the Perspectives of African American Women Executives

Book by Patricia S. Parker; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

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African American Women Executives, African American Women In The Professions, Leadership In Women--United States

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...those of New England and southern yeomen farmers, p. 12 However, for Black enslaved women, racial and patriarchal ideologies intersected...Qones, 1995 . The racial ideology of Black women as Bad Women allowed for their exploitation as laborers...
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Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II

Book by Maureen Honey; University of Missouri Press, 1999

Subjects:

African American Women--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...with positive images of African Americans were made...him in stereotypical farmers overalls with a broom...Attention to African American women was virtually nonexistent...war years with black women as the focus, and these...Hollywood placed men, not women, in new roles such as...lm to depict a black woman in a major role was Since...

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Journal Articles on: african women farmers

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"With the Aid of God and the F.S.a.": The Louisiana Farmers' Union and the African American Freedom Struggle in the New Deal Era

Journal article by Greta De Jong; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2000

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African Americans--History, Labor unions--History, Louisiana Farmers' Union--History, New Deal, 1933-1939--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...where the black farmers appeared to overwhel...been made up of African Americans. The...Louisiana. White farmer John Moore of Simmsport...The black men and women who joined the union were cotton farmers and sugar workers...First Negro Farmer Pays Off FSA Farm...Arthur Hatfield, "Farmers Able to Buy Farms...Statistics on African American Gains under...
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Life Questions: Memories of Women Civil Rights Leaders

Journal article by Kim Lacy Rogers; The Journal of African American History, 2002

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African American women--Political activity, African Americans--History, Black Panthers--Political activity, Civil rights movements--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Public Forum "Louisiana Women in the Civil Rights Era...Haley, the determined African American leader of the...of interviewing both women between 1978 and 1988...was a slender, intense woman, who, in 1989, still...three very different women shared with me their...schoolteachers, businesswomen, farmers, and Head Start workers...
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From the Yazoo Mississippi Delta to the Urban Communities of the Midwest: Conversations with Rural African American Women

Journal article by Valerie Grim; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 22, 2001

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African American women--Social aspects, Rural urban migration--Social aspects, Rural women--Social aspects, Rural-urban migration--Social aspects, Southern States--Demographic aspects

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...According to the women, the car was...similar to a farmers purchase a new...farm. "When a woman was able to get...expensive, most African Americans used...majority of the African American rural women participating...where the black woman was treated well...young girls. African American women who left the...South. Each woman in this study...
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The Civility of Incivility: Grassroots Political Activism, Female Farmers, and the Cameroon State

Journal article by Susan Diduk; African Studies Review, Vol. 47, 2004

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Cameroon, Culture, Farmers, Political activism, Symbolism, Womens rights movement

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...understand why female farmers are so active...interviews with farmers, politicians...I observed farmer mobilizations...friendships with women who are, fortuitously...demonstrations by African women against...scholars of the African subcontinent...instead, that farmer mobilizations...the nature of women, ideas that...Small-holder farmers-who are often...
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Gender Analysis of Socio-cultural Perception of Moringa Oleifera Amongst Farmers in Southwestern Nigeria

Journal article by Dixon O. Torimiro, Simsola M. Odeyinka, Victor O. Okorie, Moses A. Akinsuyi; Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 10, 2009

Subjects:

Adoption, Ayurvedic medicine, Farmers, Females, Gardens & gardening, Innovations, Land tenure, Males, Perceptions, Social interaction, Standard deviation, Sustainable development, Technological change

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...the sociodemographics of the farmers by gender; examined the gender...relationships between men and women, their access to resources...behaviour and activities that women and men have in economic...different conditions that woman and men face, and the different...the different needs of both women and men are met. This study...there were more young female farmer-respondents in the study...

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Magazine Articles on: african women farmers

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The Coming Revolution in Africa: Even as Headlines Bring Grim News of Misery, Disease, and Death in Africa, an Agricultural Transformation Is Lifting Tens of Millions of People out of Poverty. A Rising Generation of Small Farmers Promises Not Only to Put Food on the African Table but to Fundamentally Change the Continent's Economic and Political Life

Magazine article by G. Pascal Zachary; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Winter 2008

Subjects:

Africa--Economic aspects, Agricultural industry--Forecasts and trends, Agriculture--Finance, Climate--Influence, Farmers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, World Bank--Reports

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...underage women can go to...stronger farmers have more...rarity among African politicians...innovative farmer, and publicly...few of the farmers do anything...one of the women in the audience...says. The woman smiles...but in an African context Bukenyas...encouragement to one farmer, addressing...of small farmers in central...of urban Africans unafraid...Men and women do not live...
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Not Easy for African Women in the UN System: Based on Her Long Experience in the UN System, Tanzania's Current Land Minister and Former UN-HABITAT Executive Director, Anna Tibaijuka, Tells about the Struggle African Women Still Have to Break the Glass Ceiling Preventing Them from Reaching the Top Echelons of the Various UN Agencies. Erick Kabendera Interviewed Her in the Tanzanian Capital, Dar Es Salaam

Magazine article; New African, August 2011

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United Nations--Officials and employees, Working women

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Not Easy for African Women in the UN System...Struggle African Women Still Have to Break...the first African woman to hold a very senior...been written by an African woman! ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...and medium-scale farmers to improve the sharing...
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SA's First All-Black, All-Women Oil Company

Magazine article; African Business, May 2003

Subjects:

Black women--Management, Natural gas, Natural gas industry, Petroleum, Petroleum industry--Management, Sanoco Oil Co.--Management, Women executives--Management, Women, Black--Management

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...First All-Black, All-Women Oil Company. In what...historically disadvantaged South Africans, of a quarter of all...been driven by black women. It has no other investors...with emerging commercial farmers and rural communities...influenced and controlled by women, we are creating participatory...
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Saartjie Baartman Comes Home at Last: "This Young Woman Was Treated as If She Was Something Monstrous. but Where in This Affair Is the True Monstrosity?"

Magazine article by Antoine Lokongo; New African, May 2002

Subjects:

Baartman, Saartjie--Appreciation, Black women--History, Burial--Planning, Museums--Exhibitions, Sex--History, Sexual behavior--History, South Africa--Social aspects, Women, Black--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Last: "This Young Woman Was Treated as If She...Antoine Lokongo A South African delegation is expected...Baartman, the Khoi woman displayed as a freakshow...for the remains of the woman they called "the Hottentot...or "Hatred to French Women", a drama which encapsulated...employed by a Dutch farmer, Pieter Cezar. She was abducted in 1810 by the farmers brother, Hendrik...
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Africa's Healing Plants Find International Markets: African Plants Which Have Been Traditionally Used to Enhance Health and Beauty Are Now Being Commercialised and Sold to a Willing and Growing Market around the World. Dominique Magada Reports on How an NGO Is Assisting Small-Scale Farmers to Turn Natural Products into Income

Magazine article by Dominique Magada; African Business, December 2007

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Agricultural industry--International marketing, Agricultural industry--Market share

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...International Markets: African Plants Which Have Been...Assisting Small-Scale Farmers to Turn Natural Products...traditional knowledge of African communities who have...members from eight southern African countries--Botswana...is primarily made of women, who traditionally harvest...

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Newspaper Articles on: african women farmers

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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 1, 2011

Subjects:

Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph...trees and work with farmers on anti-erosion...the most educated woman in town. The village...country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques...nutrition with the women who came to the...husband Francois was a farmer, and they lived...
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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2011

Subjects:

Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph...trees and work with farmers on anti-erosion...the most educated woman in town. The village...country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques...nutrition with the women who came to the...husband Francois was a farmer, and they lived...
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How African Farmers Profit from Welsh Business Success

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 6, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

How African Farmers Profit from Welsh...Mail Thousands of Africans can escape poverty...cotton is giving farmers in the developing...partnerships with African farmers and providing...plunging these men and women into debt with up...
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A World Apart, but Not So Far Removed; Female Farmers Are Not So Different to Her

Newspaper article; The NewsMail (Bundaberg, Australia), August 20, 2011

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Farmers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...helping to teach East African farmers sustainable practices...small-scale Australian farmers to travel to East Africa...and fellow Australian farmer Hannah Maloney returned...month meeting female farmers with whom she shared...Polly and a group of 20 women farmers singing and...was not your average woman,Cyen she said. Cpounds...
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Supporting and Helping Coffee Farmers Worldwide

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 2, 2007

Subjects:

Agricultural industry, Coffee industry, Farmers, Starbucks Corp.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...projects to help coffee farmers improve their communities...and Sidamo Coffee Farmers Cooperatives. In our partnership with African Wildlife Foundation...created a network of women leaders across Africa...shows that we care about farmers. Starbucks fully supports...the Ethiopian coffee farmer. Though weve offered...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african women farmers

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...War). The American farmer, with his abundant land...supported the efforts of African-American citizens to...The growing movement of women demanding social, economic...increased the power of women and minority groups in...mate; she was the first woman to gain a major partys...
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Virginia , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...by beginning to send women to the colony. Although...became freemen and small farmers. In 1641 there were also about 250 Africans (the first had arrived...depression, but the small farmers faced ruin. Serious...tens of thousands of Africans were being imported...conservative policies regarding African Americans. The constitution...
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Mississippi , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Mississippi Univ. for Women, at Columbus. History...however, the small farmer came into his own...became the states first African-American lieutenant...win only with solid African-American support...of the Constitution, African Americans were essentially...1904, when the small farmers, still the dominant...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...The enclosures displaced many tenant farmers from their lands and produced a class...increase the arable farmland) deprived small farmers of their common land. The Speenhamland...within the EU. In 2001, British livestock farmers were again hurt by an outbreak of disease...
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Democratic Party

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...society based on the small farmer; they opposed strong...diverse elements Southern farmers, Western farmers, urban industrial classes...coalition of labor, women, minorities, moderates...McCain to become the first African American to win the nations...

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