Participation Of Family-Women In Agricultural Production : A Case Study Of Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
Family women play significant and crucial role in  agricultural development and allied fields. Several factor both economic and non economic factors are responsible for women participation. However, it is most unfortune that role of women in agriculture has not highlighted..Therefore the effort were made to analyse the work performed by women in agriculture. This study was under taken in Valikamam area of Jaffna district. A total of 185 household were selected through proportionate random sampling. The selected respondents were interview personally using pre tested well structured questionnaire. The data were analysed using appropriate statistical tool -probit model. The finding showed that the women contribution to the agricultural production is highly in family-women. The family-women age, income level and tenure rights had inverse relationship with participation in agriculture while, educational level, years of experience, distance of the woman’s farm from homestead, member of cooperative ,woman contribution in agriculture ,extension services and level of contribution had positive and significant relationship. Keywords :agricultural production , family-women, valikamam , probit.
Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in
Israel: A Decomposition Analysis
Differentiating between the sensitivity of income inequality to male
income and female income and decomposing inequality by income determinants,
we find that total income inequality is less sensitive to female
income variability or the level of female income, than to male
income variability or the level of male income. Uniform increases
in education reduce income inequality, with increases in female education
having a larger effect than increases in male education. An
increase in the population fraction of ethnic minorities has a positive
effect on inequality, but this operates mostly through female income.
All this suggests that female income is the most adequate target for
inequality-reducing policy, and that within-household gender equality
is good for reducing income inequality among households.
Decisive key-factors influencing farm households' soil and water conservation investments
Abstract In the inter-Andean valleys of Bolivia decisive key-factors influencing farm households' soil and water conservation investments were determined. The household's progressiveness most influences the decision how much to invest; dynamic and responsible families are among the first. Economic stratum is also important; more income from agriculture leads to higher investments in conservation practices. These practices are preferably executed on fields where the required effort is least and where the impact is highest. Based on these results, four concrete recommendations are given for a SWC strategy that aims at motivating farmers for the adoption of soil and water conservation practices.