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The underside of development: Agricultural development and women in Zambia

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ANITA SPRING is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Anthropology. She is Director of the Women in Agriculture Program at the University of Florida. Between 1981 and 1983 she directed the Women in Agricultural Development Project in Malawi. She has published widely on ritual and health care systems in Zambia and on agricultural development in Malawi. Publications include WOMEN IN RITUAL AND SYMBOLIC ROLES with Judith Hoch-Smith and "Men and Women Participants in a Stall Feeder Livestock Project" (Human Organization, forthcoming).

ART HANSEN is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Anthropology. He chairs the faculty steering committee of the Food in Africa Program and founded the multidisciplinary Social, Agricultural and Food Scientists Group (SAFS). From 1964 to 1968 he lived in Bolivia and the Dominican Republic conducting and supervising development programs. He has lived in Malawi and Zambia five of the past 15 years researching small farmer agriculture. Publications include INVOLUNTARY MIGRATION AND RESETTLEMENT with Anthony Oliver-Smith, THE HISTORY OF THE LUVALE PEOPLE AND THEIR CHIEFTANSHIP with Robert Papstein, and numerous papers on farming systems research.

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Spring, A., Hansen, A. The underside of development: Agricultural development and women in Zambia. Agric Hum Values 2, 60–67 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01534995

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