Sweetpotato in diverse economies: Women farmers in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren_US
cg.contributor.crpGenderen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananasen_US
cg.coverage.countryVietnamen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2VNen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierNozomi Kawarazuka: 0000-0002-7806-1247en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4160/9789290606208en_US
cg.isbn978-92-9060-619-2en_US
cg.placeLima, Peruen_US
cg.subject.cipGENDERen_US
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATOESen_US
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATO AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMSen_US
dc.contributor.authorKawarazuka, Nozomien_US
dc.contributor.authorBui, Trangen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-30T19:12:54Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-11-30T19:12:54Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/116407en_US
dc.titleSweetpotato in diverse economies: Women farmers in Ha Tinh province, Vietnamen_US
dcterms.abstractLinking smallholder farmers to markets has been one of the major approaches to improving food security. This approach is often combined with women’s empowerment as well by emphasizing women’s greater involvement in market-oriented agriculture. However, it implicitly undervalues women’s roles in non-market-oriented agriculture and unpaid family labor. This is partly because current mainstream value-chain analyses are premised on a capitalist economy that separates production from the non-capitalist form of all activities. The aim of this study is to gain a more nuanced understanding of non- or less-market oriented agricultural activities led by women farmers and the oft-neglected value of these activities in rural households. The study employs the concept of diverse economies which consider non-market-oriented activities as part of various economic systems, including subsistence farming, exchange of food, and exchange of labor. A case study was conducted in a community in the Ha Tinh province in Vietnam in April 2021, when COVID-19 had little impact on agriculture. Findings show that women manage non-market-oriented sweetpotato production, which is central to maintaining a local seed system, a reciprocal support system, and livestock production. Furthermore, women choose the best varieties of sweetpotato and use their own social networks for obtaining planting materials and distributing the sweetpotato harvest, enabling women to control both agricultural production and the distribution of benefits. In this context, shifting to commercial agriculture is not a desired form of agricultural development for women. Interventions in agricultural value chains require careful considerations of women’s aspirations and household strategies embedded in broad production and reproduction within extended and intergenerational family relations.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceExtensionen_US
dcterms.audienceFarmersen_US
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen_US
dcterms.audienceNGOsen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2021-11en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKawarazuka, N. and Bui, T. 2021. Sweetpotato in diverse economies: Women farmers in Ha Tinh province, Vietnam. A technical report. International Potato Center: Lima, Peru. 17 pp.en_US
dcterms.extent17 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2021-11en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Potato Centeren_US
dcterms.subjectsweet potatoesen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectfarmersen_US
dcterms.typeReporten_US

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