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Discusses women's activities in the rural economy in Nigeria, focusing on regional variations in individual states. It is shown that women play vital roles in the rural economy, producing a substantial proportion of the nation's food & engaging in its processing & preservation. However, women's rights of ownership or use & control of production are found to be constrained by access to material resources & sociocultural factors. Programs designed to assist women, first introduced in the 1970s, are described as facing several kinds of problems, eg, lack of funding & staff resources, women's limited participation in the planning process, & insufficient research on rural women's economic activities. Program developers are encouraged to provide better access to basic resources & to engage in more education of both men & women as to the role of women in the nation's economy. 2 Tables. D. M. Smith

Auf der Basis des 1995 in Peking erarbeiteten Programms für die Gleichstellung der Frau und des "Human Development Report" der UN von 1995 untersucht diese Studie die Wirkungskreise von Frauen in der nigerianischen Gesellschaft und ihren Einfluss in der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Dabei wird das Problem sowohl innenpolitisch als auch über die Grenzen hinaus (multilaterale Frauenverbände, Maßnahmen der UN und bilateralen Geber sowie der Nichtregierungsorganisationen) behandelt. Das Buch enthält eine Liste von nigerianischen Frauenorganisationen. (DÜI-Gbd)