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ACCESS Development Services with support from Oxfam India announces the Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition 2014. Theme: Empowering Women in Agriculture While 63 per cent of Indias rural male work force is engaged in agriculture, the gure is as high as 79 per cent for women (NSS 66th Round, 2009-10). As farmers, agricultural workers and entrepreneurs, women form the backbone of agricultural rural economy in India. Women work extensively in production of major grains and millets, in land preparation, seed selection and seedling production, sowing, applying manure, weeding, transplanting, threshing, winnowing and harvesting; in livestock production, sh processing, animal husbandry etc. Inspite of their immense contribution, women in farming remain one of the most vulnerable groups. They typically lack access to education, extension services, land, and credit and are in fact, the largest group of landless labourers with little real security in case of break-up of the family owing to death or divorce.
During 2014, and the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF), the Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition would like to showcase cases of initiatives that have helped recognize the role and rights of women in farming and! identify efcient ways to support them.! The cases should cover new knowledge and experiences from programmes relating to women in agriculture covering one or more of the following thematic areas among others:
!!!!!!!! Training, extension, input, managerial, entrepreneurial and other support services to women farmers !!!!!!!! Helping women farmers move up the value chain !!!!!!!! Agricultural innovations for reducing drudgery of women farmers !!!!!!!! Initiatives for food and nutrition security by women farmers !!!!!!!! Institutional innovations which better meet the needs of farm women !!!!!!!! Initiatives that are in place to link women farmers to markets !!!!!!!! Raising awareness and advocacy for womens land rights !!!!!!!! Initiatives for women farmers to adapt to climate change !!!!!!!! Forest based livelihoods and women The case study should include: Socio-economic conditions and needs of the beneciaries within which the programme was initiated and implemented Nature of engagement, intervention, support and strategies of the implementing agency for reaching out to women engaged in agriculture Impact of the programme in promoting sustainable livelihoods of the women engaged in agriculture Factors that contributed to the success of the programme and critical challenges faced Issues in achieving scale and sustainability and efforts made by the programme to address them
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