What is it about?
The publication makes an attempt at locating the impact of agricultural extension policies on actual use whilst negotiating existing gender relations at household and community levels. The focus is on the deployment of agricultural informational technologies with no regard for gender relations may not bode well for farmers in some spaces compared to others. Farmer groups thus play a significant role in bridging the gaps that the state may not be able to plug.
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Why is it important?
The paper underscores the importance of CSOs in agricultural knowledge sharing for rural farmers, bridging a neglected facet of information technology promotion campaigns in the third world herein referred to as gender relations. Without the additional gender related messages provided by the CSOs, there would be as much benefit in terms of incomes, agricultural practice and productivity as there would be domestic violence,turmoil and conflict.
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This page is a summary of: Gender analysis of agricultural extension policies in Uganda: informing practice?, Gender Technology and Development, May 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2019.1657610.
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