Cotton, gender and Zimbabwe:

The IFAD photogallery on cotton, gender and Zimbabwe:

http://www.ifad.org/photo/region/PF/ZW.htm

On line documents on cotton, gender and Zimbabwe:

http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/Zimcase.Fnl.html

http://hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/smorgan/MAlderson.html

http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v7/v7i2a5.htm

http://www.ifama.org/conferences/2000Congress/Cloud_Kate.PDF

http://www.pan-uk.org/Cotton/Zimbabwe.pdf

http://www.grti.org/RTTP_.doc

http://www.saprin.org/zimbabwe/research/zim_agriculture.pdf

http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol17no1/171agri4.htm

The organic cotton project - case materials:

http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/pn56/pn56p15.htm

http://www.pan-uk.org/Internat/IPMinDC/pmn10.pdf

On going research on cotton, gender and Zimbabwe:

Sarah Horsley and Vanessa Weisenfeld are researching the impact of corporate concentration in the cotton and textile/garment industry on women in southern Africa. This work is part of their master's degree thesis project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Specifically, they are looking at impacts on women's income, health, work conditions, and bargaining power for farmers in Zimbabwe and textile and garment workers in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. If you are interested in this issue, please feel free to contact them at Sarah_Horsley@ksg05.harvard.edu or Vanessa_Weisenfeld@ksg05.harvard.edu

Women and the cotton chain project: a report by Sarah Horsley and Vanessa Weisenfeld, 2005

This page has been developed to accompany the researches of Sarah Horsley and Vanessa Weisenfeld. It is organized by Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport and Society, Napier University and Visiting Full Professor, Institute for African Development, Cornell University: to add information to this page contact Margaret: mg294@cornell.edu or m.grieco@napier.ac.uk