Volume 4, Number 1
April 1998

Gender and Development Resources

TRAINING--Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU) offers semi-intensive courses on all aspects of gender, agri-culture, and natural resource management. WAU also works with the International Agricultural Centre (IAC) of the Netherlands, where a two-week course on Gender and Land Use Planning is offered. WAU also supports curricula development in the field of agriculture and rural development, and carries out training. For more information on WAU's department, courses, new M.Sc. program, the Ph.D. program, and international collaboration, please refer to its Web pages at http://www.sls.wau.nl/crds/cent_gs.htm.

For more general training courses, Howard-Borjas suggested contacting Daniela Bertino at the International Labour Organisation Training Centre in Turin, Italy. Both institutions offer training or can inform about a range of training programs.

The Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) in Palestine is a network of 21 members representing women's centers for legal aid and counseling, women's studies programs, and independent professional women. One of WATC's main areas of interest is in training women on gender issues. WATC requests any training manuals on gender issues and relevant publications for their self-learning facility. WATC has a web site (www.pal-watc.org). For more information, contact Shuaa Marrar, International Women's Network Coordinator, WATC, at watc@ planet.edu.

INTERNET--The Department of Gender Studies in Agriculture at Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), the Netherlands, announces the introduction of two new Internet resources on gender, agriculture, and rural development. The first is an on-line, searchable Bibliographical Database on Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development--the first of its kind in the world--with more than 6,000 entries, all of which can also be ordered on-line from WAU. The site is described and accessible through http://www. sls.wau.nl/crds/bdp_gs.htm.

The second is a Web Page listing Internet resources on gender, agriculture, and rural development in an international context, linking to web sites and providing information on relevant discussion lists and conferences. WAU hopes to expand the site to include educational programs and job announcements in the same field. Visit the site, link your web pages, and make your announcements through http://www.sls.wau.nl/crds/irl_gs.htm.

PUBLICATIONS--Women, Ink. has just brought out a new supplement, adding 24 titles to its collection. The books cover a range of topics, from African feminism to trafficking in women to participatory video. There are reference books, readers, essays on culture, and practical workbooks. A new category, women and the Internet, features two guides to the worldwide web specifically aimed at women. There are also two new titles in Spanish. To receive a copy of the supplement, send an e-mail to wink@igc.apc.org or call Tina Johnson at 212-687-8633 ext. 212.

The following is a list of references on male/female productivity.

Adesina, A.A, and K.K. Djato. 1996. Farm size, relative efficiency and agrarian policy in Cote d'Ivoire: Profit function analysis of rice farms. Agricultural Economics 14: 93-102.

Adesina, A.A, and K.K. Djato. 1997. Relative efficiency of women as farm managers: Profit function analysis in Cote d'Ivoire. Agricultural Economics 16: 47-53.

Moock, P. 1976. The efficiency of women as farm managers: Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 58: 831-835.

Quisumbing, A.R. 1994. Gender differences in agricultural productivity: A survey of empirical evidence. ESP Discussion Paper, Series No. 36, Education and Social Policy Department, The World Bank.