Window Dressing Inequalities and Constructing Women Farmers As Problematic—Gender In Rwanda’s Agriculture Policy
Publisher: Agriculture and Human Values
Author(s): Karolin Andersson, Katarina Pettersson, and Johanna Bergman Lodin
Date: 2022
Topics: Gender, Governance
Countries: Rwanda
Rwanda is often depicted as a success story by policy makers when it comes to issues of gender. In this paper, we show how the problem of gendered inequality in agriculture nevertheless is both marginalized and instrumentalized in Rwanda’s agriculture policy. Our in-depth analysis of 12 national policies is informed by Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? approach.