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training, extension, new seeds suitable to their environments, animal fodder, and equipmentto ease their workload and overcome drudgery in performing their farm tasks.One strategy for enhancing their productivity and income is to provide them withaccess to new seeds suitable to their specific adverse rainfed environments. Effortsare now being made under the System-wide Initiative on Farmer Participatory PlantBreeding and Gender Analysis to develop methodologies that involve both male andfemale farmers in rice variety development in rainfed environments (Paris et al 1998).Other potential research areas for enhancing women’s roles will be in producing animalfodder within the cropping systems and developing agricultural/mechanical implements/toolsto reduce their drudgery, increase their labor efficiency, and explore waysto optimize the use of rice by-products and home-based technologies. Gender analysiswill also be replicated to complete the socioeconomic and cultural characterizationof major rainfed lowland rice environments in South and Southeast Asia and toprovide a gender-related database for policymakers in addressing gender issues inagriculture.ReferencesAgarwal B. 1998. Disinherited peasants, disadvantaged workers: a gender perspective on landand livelihood. Econ. Polit. Wkly. p 2-14.Bennett L. 1992. Women, poverty, and productivity in India. EDI Seminar Paper Number 43.Washington, D.C. (USA): Economic Development Institute of the World Bank.Bennett L. 1989. Gender and poverty in India: issues and opportunities concerning women inthe Indian economy. Washington, D.C. (USA): World Bank. 153 p.Chen M. 1990. Coping with seasonality and drought. New Delhi (India): Sage Publications.247 p.Cloud K. 1985. Women’s productivity in agricultural systems. In: Overholt C, <strong>And</strong>erson MB,Cloud K, Austin J, editors. Gender roles in development projects: a case book. WestHartford, Conn. (USA): Kumarian Press. p 57-78.Dreze J, Sen A. 1989. Hunger and public action. Oxford (UK): Clarendon Press.Duvvury N. 1989. Women in agriculture: a review of the Indian literature. Econ. Polit. Wkly.28 October 1989.FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). 1991. Most farmers in India are women. New Delhi(India): FAO. 20 p.Feldstein HS, Poats SV, Cloud K, Noreem R. 1989. Intra-household dynamics and farmingsystems research and extension: conceptual framework and worksheets. In: FeldsteinHS, Poats SV, editors. Gender and agriculture: case studies in intra-household analysis.West Hartford, Conn. (USA): Kumarian Press.Ghosh H. 1987. Changes in the status of north Indian women: a case study of Palitpur villages.Working Paper No. 141. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. (USA).Gopalan S. 1992. Sectoral policies on agriculture and related macro-economic policies andtheir gender-responsiveness. New Delhi, India. (In mimeo.)Gupta AK. 1991. Reconceptualizing development and diffusion of technology for dry regions.In: Prasad C, Das P, editors. Extension strategies in rainfed agriculture. New Delhi (India):India Society of Extension Education. p 322-356.368 Paris et al

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