Der Transportbedarf von Frauen in der Subsistenzlandwirtschaft afrikanischer Laender suedlich der Sahara.
1986
Barth U.
Transportation is one of the most crucial problems in the labour-intensive subsistence farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa. Women as the primary food producers supply the bulk of labour required both for farm work, e.g. production of food and partly of cash crops, and domestic work. Most female activities in subsistence agriculture are bounded to movements within the context of on-farm transport: they carry water, fuelwood and harvested crops. The burden of the transport work performed by women is reflected in the distances they cover and the loads they carry. Provision of labour and time saving means of transport and improved farm and household equipment is therefore substantial, if the effectiveness and efficiency of food production are to be raised. Self-sustance of these improvements, however, is only to be expected if women's access to financial resources and hence their access to the cash economy is guaranteed.
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