Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 284)
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- Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 284)
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goal of extension services has frequently been not
the increase in farm-level productivity of women
but rather finding ways to reduce their
participation in agriculture through the promotion
of more homebound activities. Often such efforts
have the opposite results...[since]...some farming
innovations may result in increasing the burden of
labour on women. (21)
Thus, contradictorily, if deve lopment agencies and
agricultural extension workers are not aware of the realities
of the sexual division of labour in peasant agriculture,
because of their ignorance and ideologically generated
inability to gauge the level of women's overall involvement
in the work process, then they can simultaneously, while
trying to limit women's activities to a purely domestic role,
increase their involvement in the commodity production
sphere. The reality of women's work in the sexual division of
labour in peasant communities is such that women actively
work in both the domestic and commodity producing spheres
concurrently, most commonly working a "double day" in the
family subsistence sector and the commodity producing sector.
It is often the case that development intervention, when
accompanied by gender-blindness, fails to take into account
women's existing work commitments and effectively results in
increasing the labour time which they work. In the Jordan
Valley, for example, the work load of women in the commodity
producing sector has increased as a direct result of the
introduction of new techniques and HYV's of vegetable
seedlings, and, simultaneously, they are committed to
undertaking heavier workloads in the subsistence sector as
the household economy is facing the consequences of an
agricultural crisis.
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- Alex Pollock
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