Journal of Social Work Education and Practice, Volume 5; Issue 4, 01/10/2020
Women Farmers in Kudumbashree Programme: Gendered Ownership and Control over Productive Resources
Aswathy S 1, Shewli Kumar 2
1 & 2 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Women Farmers in Kudumbashree Programme: Gendered Ownership and Control over Productive Resources
Aswathy S 1, Shewli Kumar 2
1 & 2 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
ABSTRACT: Women in India play crucial role in agriculture and their work ranging from crop production to post harvesting. They work as cultivators, paid agricultural labourers or sometimes work in their own family land as unpaid workers. Even if women contribute to the field of farming, literature shows that they lack resources including access, control and ownership of the productive resources for doing farming. The Kudumbashree collective farming programme through long term leasing of land is an initiative through which, it is premised that women’s collective bargaining increases and thereby improves their control over productive resources. Using Naila Kabeer’s framework of Social Relations this article examines how women farmers’ access, control and ownership of productive resources is impacted by the Kudumbashree programmes. It goes on to analyse the programme’s potential for empowerment of women farmers and transformation of gender relations using Kabeer’s framework.
Keywords: women farmers, collective farming, kudumbashree
Keywords: women farmers, collective farming, kudumbashree