Title: The rough road to gender equitable growth : the case of Café de mujer Guatemala

Authors: Verhart, Noortje and Pyburn, Rhiannon

Place: Basingstoke [etc.]

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan [etc.]

Year: 2010

Journal: Development

Volume: vol. 53, no. 3

PAGE: 356--361

Subject: Gender Equity in Certified Chains , Value Chains for Development

Keywords: women, empowerment, women's status, coffee, agricultural production, trade liberalization, globalization, social justice, gender research, guatemala

Abstract: A value chain (VC) approach is used to look at opportunities to improve women's positions in global trade. Trade relations influence men's and women's opportunities to improve their position in a VC differently. Interventions can enable the revaluation of women's contribution to coffee production.

URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v53/n3/full/dev201038a.html

Document type: E-article