Rural Development from a Gender Perspective: The Case of Women Farmers in Southern Spain

De Pablo Valenciano, Jaime; Milán-García, Juan; Uribe-Toril, Juan; Guerrero-Villalba, María Angustias

doi:10.3390/land10010075

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Rural Development from a Gender Perspective: The Case of Women Farmers in Southern Spain

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Jaime De Pablo Valenciano

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Juan Milán-García

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Juan Uribe-Toril

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María Angustias Guerrero-Villalba

Area of Applied Economics, Business and Economics Department, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain

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Land 2021, 10(1), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010075

Submission received: 20 December 2020 / Revised: 12 January 2021 / Accepted: 12 January 2021 / Published: 15 January 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Perspectives: People, Tenure, Planning, Tools, Space, and Health)

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This article analyses the contribution to local development by women workers in the fruit- and vegetable-handling sector in Almería (Spain) over the last five years (2015–2019). It is a continuation of research carried out during the period 2000–2014. Using data collected through surveys and focus groups, the aim is to ascertain if the results obtained in this analysis meet the condition of sustainability, i.e., whether the improvement in working women’s quality of life has been maintained over time, and whether these beneficial effects have multiplied. The results show that women workers in the fruit- and vegetable-handling sector are satisfied with their jobs and with the company they are working for. The existence of fixed-discontinuous employment contracts facilitates greater flexibility for women in terms of balancing work and family life. This main contribution of this study lies in extrapolating the sustainability of a local development model in regard to other initiatives that aim to increase women’s empowerment in the labour market.

Keywords: women empowerment; sustainable local development; food-handling sector; horticultural sector

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De Pablo Valenciano, J.; Milán-García, J.; Uribe-Toril, J.; Guerrero-Villalba, M.A. Rural Development from a Gender Perspective: The Case of Women Farmers in Southern Spain. Land 2021, 10, 75. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010075

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De Pablo Valenciano J, Milán-García J, Uribe-Toril J, Guerrero-Villalba MA. Rural Development from a Gender Perspective: The Case of Women Farmers in Southern Spain. Land. 2021; 10(1):75. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010075

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De Pablo Valenciano, Jaime, Juan Milán-García, Juan Uribe-Toril, and María Angustias Guerrero-Villalba. 2021. "Rural Development from a Gender Perspective: The Case of Women Farmers in Southern Spain" Land 10, no. 1: 75. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010075

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De Pablo Valenciano, J., Milán-García, J., Uribe-Toril, J., & Guerrero-Villalba, M. A. (2021). Rural Development from a Gender Perspective: The Case of Women Farmers in Southern Spain. Land, 10(1), 75. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010075

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