Authors :
Chekene, Mohammed Buba
Volume/Issue :
Volume 4 - 2019, Issue 9 - September
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Abstract :
Creating interest and excitement around
gender study has become an important part of
agricultural development. Government and other
stakeholders are giving more priority to gender issues
and support their investment to empower women and
diminish discrimination between genders. In Nigeria
Women in agricultural extension (WIA) was established
in other to increases voice and share of women in
agricultural sector. Unfortunately this development
comes with challenges and limitation that increases
gender inequality. Gender system is diverse and
complex as they determine by environmental norms and
value. This paper review the evidence that is in public
domain in relation to limitation of WIA in access to
agricultural land resources, cultural belief and tradition
of the people in the social system. It had been found that
the women in agricultural approach resulted to gender
differences and promotes gender inequality as it did not
consider norms and value of the community. Therefore
Women and development approach should change with
Gender and Development (GAD) approaches. Policy
makers and government at all levels should serve as
driving tools in promoting gender and development
approach and the implication for supporting (WIA)
may result to gender bias that may affects societal
culture, belief and tradition that may resulted to total
rejection of the program and consequently it may cause
a serious threats to agricultural development of the
country.
Keywords :
Women in Agriculture, Gender and Development, Gender equality, agricultural development.
Creating interest and excitement around
gender study has become an important part of
agricultural development. Government and other
stakeholders are giving more priority to gender issues
and support their investment to empower women and
diminish discrimination between genders. In Nigeria
Women in agricultural extension (WIA) was established
in other to increases voice and share of women in
agricultural sector. Unfortunately this development
comes with challenges and limitation that increases
gender inequality. Gender system is diverse and
complex as they determine by environmental norms and
value. This paper review the evidence that is in public
domain in relation to limitation of WIA in access to
agricultural land resources, cultural belief and tradition
of the people in the social system. It had been found that
the women in agricultural approach resulted to gender
differences and promotes gender inequality as it did not
consider norms and value of the community. Therefore
Women and development approach should change with
Gender and Development (GAD) approaches. Policy
makers and government at all levels should serve as
driving tools in promoting gender and development
approach and the implication for supporting (WIA)
may result to gender bias that may affects societal
culture, belief and tradition that may resulted to total
rejection of the program and consequently it may cause
a serious threats to agricultural development of the
country.
Keywords :
Women in Agriculture, Gender and Development, Gender equality, agricultural development.