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Women in Rural Areas within the Framework of Policies and Programs in Turkey

2016

In rural areas, the most of women are employed in agriculture sector, therefore women's labour intensity is also high in agricultural production as in the households. But, the proportion of women in agriculture sector accepted low wages is extremely high and frequently this group gained their income by means of marketing agricultural products obtained by working in the vineyards and orchards or fields. In this sense, to generate and diversify income-generating activities are major importance for women engaged in agricultural activities. Considering the Turkey’s conditions, the employment of women in the rural areas would reduce depending on a decrease trend in agricultural employment. Constraints for empowering women in the rural area are mainly lack of social security for women, traditional thinking of men and the community pressure, perception of family workers. Despite several projects and programs are implemented, it is still essential to make further studies for the women w...

Supporting Women in Rural Areas within the Framework of Policies and Programs in Turkey *For Correspondence

2015

In rural areas, the most of women are employed in agriculture sector, therefore women's labour intensity is also high in agricultural production as in the households. But, the proportion of women in agriculture sector accepted low wages is extremely high and frequently this group gained their income by means of marketing agricultural products obtained by working in the vineyards and orchards or fields. In this sense, to generate and diversify income-generating activities are major importance for women engaged in agricultural activities. Considering the Turkey's conditions, the employment of women in the rural areas would reduce depending on a decrease trend in agricultural employment. Constraints for empowering women in the rural area are mainly lack of social security for women, traditional thinking of men and the community pressure, perception of family workers. Despite several projects and programs are implemented, it is still essential to make further studies for the wom...

Rural women in terms of education, sustainable development and agricultural Extension in Konya, Turkey

The overall purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing accessibility of women to agricultural Extension services in Konya. The second purpose of the study was to investigate specific needs and interests of women. In basis of the rural development, between the city and countryside, socio-cultural and reaching optimum level of economic differences, rural population to improve themselves in their rural area, in addition to that, the real women's effect on manufacturing and the improvement in social status has not been performed yet. Because, in Turkey, rural development practices are mostly done to improve the basis facilities, canalizing the new technologies to agriculture, modernizing the agriculture to take form to shape the improve the life standard. However, we can also see women in every part of agricultural production. When the criteria of education is taken care that bearer ring the importance of women's status, especially, there exist importance for education services that must be taken to women who live in the rural areas. Increasing in the women's education level, also increase in the participation level of the labor force. This research used multi-method research approach that combined interviews by the questionnaire, participant observation, focus group interviews, document evaluation. Also, while 11.78% of farms are not in question, now they enforce as producer activities under cover. Rural women need to be informed as education, research, health, family planning, spread for the further generations, to provide them enough income and food secure.

Importance Of Rural Women As Part Of The Population In Turkey

European Countryside, 2015

Turkey has a total land potential of 78 million ha with a population about 74 million. About one third of the land is arable, and 26% of the population has lived in rural areas. The active population, work in the rural area of Turkey, is 14,767,000 and women have about 51% of that population. The population of women working in agriculture has shown an increase from year to year. In that regard, importance of women in agricultural activities and rural development is very clear. In agricultural enterprises, the individuals are comprised from 54% men and 46% women whose main work is agricultural activities and female economically active population in agriculture is about 55% in Turkey. The Social Gender Inequality Index, SGII, can be used to make some recommendations for policy makers. SGII is still at a high rate of 0.366 in Turkey. In present paper, some secondary data such as reports and statistical data were analyzed about the contributions of women labor uses in agriculture.

The status of rural women in Turkey: What is the role of regional differences

2006

In this paper, we study the regional differences in the impact of modernization on the position of rural women in settlements with population of 10,000 or less in Turkey on the basis of representative national data of all females aged 15 and 49 for the year 1998. Within the regions, we compare women living in the countryside with women living in towns. The focus of the research is on differences in socioeconomic status, gender role attitudes, and freedom or "autonomy" among the women. Our results make clear that there are large differences in these respects among women from different regions and between women living in the countryside and women living in towns. Women living in towns are better off with regard to educational opportunities and household income, but at the same time they seem to be more dependent on their husband than countryside women, because very few of them are gainfully employed. The situation of the women in the East of the country is found to be much worse than in other regions with regard to almost all indicators of women's status that are used. In the countryside of that region, one third of the married women is not able to speak Turkish, the country's official and dominant language, and also one third has no official civil marriage, which puts them in a disadvantage position in terms of legal rights.

Rural women and agrotourism in the context of sustainable rural development: A case study from Turkey

Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2005

As in many developing countries also in Turkey, agriculture is on the center of rural development and rural women are on the center of agriculture. Although they are main part as a major labor force at every stage of agricultural activity and undertake responsibilities such as domestic task and childcare, women do not profit from social and economic benefits proportionate to the responsibilities they have undertaken. Agrotourism is an alternative activity in the rural development process, which combines agriculture and tourism, improves natural resources, contributes the rural area socially and economically. The aim of this study is to examine the participation conditions of rural women to the agrotourism activities, which is considered as an option in the context of sustainable rural development, and to identify the possible social and economic implications of agrotourism on the rural women's life, after determining the situation and importance of rural women in the agricultural activity. This research was carried out in three villages of Kalecik district of Ankara and data gathered from group meetings and surveys.

Erdem Özgür and Alp Yücel Kaya, "The Kadro journal on the agrarian question in Turkey in the 1930s", Historia Agraria, 76, Diciembre 2018, pp. 221-250.

The Kadro journal on the agrarian question in Turkey in the 1930s, 2018

İ smail Hüsrev Tökin, in his preface to Türkiye Köy İktisadiyatı (1990 [1934]), argues that an economist who might travel Turkey from its western to eastern frontiers would face diverse social and economic scenes: remnants from the previous centuries , in both their mature and embryonic forms. A common point of view of the literature related to agrarian question, from Kautsky to Chayanov, was the problem of the coexistence of pre-capitalist and capitalist agricultural structures within the context of a capitalist economic system, and the political implications of this setting. Tökin's discussion was a part of such literature in general but it was also part of a movement formed around a monthly journal, Kadro, published between 1932 and 1935. This short-lived movement succeeded in producing original ideas with a dependency-like, devel-opmentalist approach. Our paper aims to explain the analysis of Tökin, and also the Kadro journal on " the agrarian question " in Turkey. To this end, it will discuss how their empirical observations on agrarian dynamics in Turkey in the 1930s, and their theoretical background on the agrarian question, interacted to examine the specific aspects of Turkey's rural economy. It concludes that Kadro authors' focus in the agrarian question was on the problem of accumulation for industrialization, rather than the problem of democratic or socialist struggle.

Tarımsal küçük üreticilik ve sözleşmeli çiftçilik : Türkiye'den bir örnek

2008

Understanding the class position of family owned small scale agricultural production units, which constitute a common feature of the rural context in the later capitalized countries, have been one of the major discussion points in the Marxist literature. The continual existence of such a form of production organization with significant non-capitalist features under the enlarging capitalist organization of production despite the initial assumptions of Marxist analysis that it was a transitory form which will soon differentiate between proletariat and bourgeoisie have prompted a number if attempts at explaining the survival of this category. These debates have strongly influenced the analyses in the field of rural sociology from 1960s onwards, providing the conceptual tools for sociological analysis of rural relations of production. This thesis engages in an attempt of re-appraising the theoretical debates within Marxist analysis of petty agricultural production organization together ...