Trying to Grow

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Trying to Grow is written by Martina Aruna Padmanabhan and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3825863689 (ISBN 10) and 9783825863685 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the negotiations at the inter- and intrafaces of knowledge and gender. It analyses the construction of gender and knowledge to reveal how innovations in agriculture either transform existing gender relations or unfold a transcending potential. The case studies on the cultivation of cowpeas, onions and soybeans by Dagombas and Kusasis show that supposedly gender-neutral agricultural innovations become contested fields when men and women are "Trying to Grow". The contextualisation and social connotation of a crop decides over women's participation in rural development. The book throws a fresh light on the management of agricultural knowledge.