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Gender issues in small-scale family poultry production: experiences with Newcastle Disease and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2009

B. BAGNOL
B. BAGNOL*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, International Rural Poultry Centre (IRPC), KYEEMA Foundation, Postnet Suite 118, Private Bag X1, Melrose Arch, Johannesburg 2076, South Africa
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Corresponding author: [email protected]
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Abstract

The following paper analyses gender issues to be taken into consideration in Newcastle disease (ND) and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) control. Gender issues tend to be sidelined from discussions and gender disparities in economic and decision making matters are often neglected. The integration of the analysis of gender relations in the study of agro-economic characteristics is of major importance because the paradigms of access, control and benefits of the resources, and consequently of exclusion, are based on social relations between men and women. The understanding of gender relations and its implications to livestock rearing is therefore an imperative in the effective promotion of appropriate interventions in order to improve biosecurity.

Keywords

biosecuritygenderNDHPAIextensionpoultryvillage chickens
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Review Article
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 231 - 240
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Copyright © World's Poultry Science Association 2009

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