Women and the Food Cycle: Case Studies and Technology Profiles

by UNIFEM (Editor), Marilyn Carr (Introduction)

Overview

This collection of articles includes case studies of attempts to improve small-scale food processing, remembering that 'small is beautiful, but difficult'. Case studies cover grain and fruit processing, baking, beekeeping, and small-scale oil production.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853390555
Publisher:	Practical Action Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/1989
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 7.00(d)

About the Author

UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas: (1) reducing feminized poverty, (2) ending violence against women, (3) reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and (4) achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war.

Marilyn Carr is a development economist with over 25 years of experience in informal employment, small enterprise development, the impact of trade policy on poverty, and choice and dissemination of technology.