AGRICULTURE AND ECO-FEMINISM: A STUDY OF KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S NECTAR IN A SIEVE

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Dr. Bharatender Sheoran
Assistant Professor of English, Govt. College Dujana, Jhajjar, Haryana, India Email: bharatendersheoran@gmail.com

Vol 17, No 10 ( 2022 )   |  Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no:2142-2148   |   Published on: 31-10-2022

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Abstract
Women are the first to suffer the consequences of climate change and the last to reap the economic benefits. Adenike Oladosu calls for an ecofeminist approach to help women smallholder farmers meet the challenges of climate change and produce food. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of feminization of agriculture, i.e., women's increasing work and responsibilities in agriculture, and explores its importance in women's empowerment and the contribution of feminist thinking (e.g., ecofeminism - women and the environment - gender, environment, and sustainable development) to advancing the gender paradigm in environmental concerns and plans for agricultural and rural development.

Keywords:
Ecofeminism, Environment, Agriculture, Empowerment, Feminist.

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