Schaffen neue Technologien Arbeitserleichterungen fuer die Frauen [in Entwicklungslaendern]? Beispiel: Kassava-Reiben in Sierra Leone.
1986
Koller B.
Women in rural areas of Sierra Leone are subsistence farmers. They produce, amongst others, cassava, the second most important staple food after rice. Only processing of cassava to gari, and its marketing, offers a relatively secure income to the women. In the town, motor-driven raspers facilitate the process of gari production. Financially potent men see a chance here for themselves in the growing importance of cassava as a cash crop. They buy the cassava crop from the women, use this new technology for making gari, and achieve thus advantages in production for themselves. In the long run, this will mean a shifting of the gari production into the town and into the hands of the men. Access was provided to groupings of women to credits which enabled them to buy an expensive, motor-driven cassava rasping machine. Manually operated, "adjusted" raspers of very simple design proved to be non-competitive. But the introduction of the expensive, new technology had to be made with utmost care.
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