Subject(s): Women -- Women's rights -- Women in agriculture -- Women and the environment -- Women and technological change in agriculture- Asian and African experience, agricultural mechanization and labour/labor use- disaggregated approach, rural women and high yielding variety rice- technology in India, women, poverty and agricultural growth in India, work participation of rural women in third world - some data and conceptual biases, diffusion of rural innovations - some analytical issues and case of wood burning stoves, social security and family - coping with seasonality and calamity in rural India, rethinking agricultural production collectivities, food crises and gender inequality -- women & agriculture