TY - CHAP
T1 - Contemporary Feminist Analysis of Australian Farm Women in the Context of Climate Changes
AU - Alston, Margaret
AU - Clarke, Josephine
AU - Whittenbury, Kerri
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Climate changes are reshaping agricultural production and food security across the globe (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2014b), leading to increased uncertainty (Torquebiau et al., 2015), changing production processes (Bryant et al., 2016), greater levels of outmigration from rural areas for alterna-tive income (Alston, 2015), and a reshaped agricultural workforce (Preibisch &Grez, 2010). As these impacts take hold, significant gendered workforce realignments are underway in agricultural production units. One result evident across the world is that women are having a much greater role in food production and now comprise 43% of the global agricultural workforce (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2013; World Bank, 2012; World Bank, 2017), over 50%in many Asian nations, and over 40% in southern Africa (FAO, 2010; World Bank, 2017). Nonetheless, there is far less documented information on women’s contribution to agriculture in developed countries and almost no systematic data collection in Australia. This is despite the fact that 99% of the 134,000 Australian farms are run as family farms (National Farmers’ Federation, 2012), confirming that Australian agriculture is highly dependent on the labour flexibility female and male family members provide.
AB - Climate changes are reshaping agricultural production and food security across the globe (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2014b), leading to increased uncertainty (Torquebiau et al., 2015), changing production processes (Bryant et al., 2016), greater levels of outmigration from rural areas for alterna-tive income (Alston, 2015), and a reshaped agricultural workforce (Preibisch &Grez, 2010). As these impacts take hold, significant gendered workforce realignments are underway in agricultural production units. One result evident across the world is that women are having a much greater role in food production and now comprise 43% of the global agricultural workforce (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2013; World Bank, 2012; World Bank, 2017), over 50%in many Asian nations, and over 40% in southern Africa (FAO, 2010; World Bank, 2017). Nonetheless, there is far less documented information on women’s contribution to agriculture in developed countries and almost no systematic data collection in Australia. This is despite the fact that 99% of the 134,000 Australian farms are run as family farms (National Farmers’ Federation, 2012), confirming that Australian agriculture is highly dependent on the labour flexibility female and male family members provide.
KW - farming women
KW - women in agriculture
KW - climate changes
KW - feminist analysis
KW - food production
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/LP130100676
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367544188
SN - 9781032316857
T3 - Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments
SP - 172
EP - 191
BT - Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change:
A2 - Fletcher, Amber J.
A2 - Reed, Maureen G.
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis
CY - London
ER -