Uncaptured or Unmotivated? Women and the Food Crisis in Africa.

Much theorizing has been done about the African food crisis. This paper reviews a gendered approach to agriculture, focusing on the implications of labor differentiation, incentives, and struggles over access to resources for agricultural development. The paper then analyzes two approaches to understanding Africa's development crises. One focuses on faulty incentives created in statist strategies and the other on an uncaptured peasantry; both approaches are oblivious to gender labor relations. The paper concludes with policy implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]