Africa

• African Women Farmers' Need for Suitable Tools
• African Women's Most Popular Tool
• Agricultural implements used by women farmers in Africa
• Animal Traction for African Women Farmers
• Blacksmiths as Partners in Developing Tools for African Women
• Innovation in African Women's Farm Tools
• The Issue of Poverty among Female-Headed Households in Africa `
• Two Aspects of Women's Workload in West Africa
• What African Women Farmers Look for in Their Agricultural Implements
• Women's Farming in Africa: A Case for Donkey Power

Botswana

• An Argument for Targeting Rural Women in Botswana
• Female-Headed Househods in Rural Botswana
• Five Issues in Targeting to Women in Rural Botswana
• The Impact of Cash on Men and Women in Bushmen Settlements in Botswana
• Veld Product-Based Earnings of Women in Bushmen Settlements in Botswana

Cote d'Ivoire

• The Situation of Widows
• Wealth, Saving and Borrowing in the Zanzan Regions

D.R. Congo

• A case for targeting men
• Issues in targeting poorer women
• Women's views on empowerment

Gambia

• Gender Access and Control of Resources in Rural Gambia
• Gender Division of Labour in Rice Production in the Gambia

Ghana

• Informal Financial Services for Rural Women in the Northern Region
• Improving Women's Access to Land in the Upper East
• Lending for Women's Income-Generating Activities
• Women's Access to Formal Financial Services
• Rural Women's Micro and Small Enterprises
• Rural Women's Workload
• The Situation of Widows
• Women's Contribution to Household Food Security

Sao Tome and Principe

• Demand for Rural Financial Services among Women
• Women Fish Traders

Uganda

• Empowerment of Rural Women Through Functional Adult Literacy
• Division of Labour in Agriculture
• Gender Differences in Control Over and Use of Income
• The Situation of Widows
• Targeting of Rural Financial Services to Women
• Women's Farm Implements in Uganda

West and Central Africa

• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Issues in Targeting Poorer Women
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Women's Views on Empowerment
• Eastern Congo: A Case for Targeting Men
• Mali: Constraints on Women's Participation under a Village Development Fund
• Mali: Literacy Training for Rural Women
• Productivity of Women Farmers

Zambia

• How Women Farm in Chimbombo

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