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ANITA SPRING

Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

1112 Turlington, PO Box 117305

Gainesville FL 32611-7305

Res. (352) 376-4833

Office: (352) 392-7102

Fax: (352) 392-6929

email: [email protected]

Affiliate Faculty: Centers for African

Studies, Latin American Studies, and

Women’s Studies and Gender Research;

and School of Natural Resources

and Environment

EXPERTISE

Cultural, Applied, and Medical Anthropology; International Agricultural

Development; Food Security; Entrepreneurship and Micro-enterprises;

Women/Gender in International Development; Environment and Resource

Management, Extensive International Experience; Curriculum Development and

International Exchanges

Current research topics: the African Business Environment and Entrepreneurship;

China and Chinese people in Africa; Food Security and Food Sovereignty in

Africa, Women and Land, International Land Grabs

ADMINSTRATIVE, ACADEMIC, AND OTHER EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

(ALSO SEE INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTCIES)

University of Florida

2010-2014: Sub-Saharan Business Environment Project

2009-present: Professor Emeritus, University of Florida.

1993-present: Professor of Anthropology. Affiliate in African, Latin American,

and Women's Studies. Responsibilities include teaching cross-cultural graduate

and undergraduate courses and doing cross-cultural research (e.g., Africa’s new

generation of entrepreneurs; Agricultural development and food security in

Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America; Gender research in Asia, Africa, Latin

America and the Caribbean; Cross-cultural body image and self-esteem).

Food and Agriculture Organization

1988-1991: Chief, Women in Agricultural Production and Rural Development

Service. Responsibilities included oversight of FAO's global operation on women

in development, supervision of projects and design of major policy documents

that will be in effect until 1995. Activities included policy advice to Member

Governments, training on Gender Analysis (over 700 senior officers of the FAO

trained); women and the environment; research on gender and development;

development of statistical indicators and database on gender and development;

formulation and backstopping of field projects; home economics programs;

population and WID; and raising funds for projects by working with donors and

other UN Agencies. (LEVEL: D-1)

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University of Florida

1985-1988: Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Responsibilities included oversight of international programs (e.g., African

Studies, Asian Studies, Jewish Studies, Greek Studies), interdisciplinary programs

(e.g., Women's Studies, Gerontology), and the academic aspects of UF's overseas

student programs undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and affirmative action.

University of Florida

1984-1986: Director, Women in Agricultural Development Program.

Responsibilities included a bi-weekly speakers series, the creation of a

bibliographic database, curricular activities, holding an international conference

on Gender Issues and Farming Systems Research, and fund raising from

university and other sources.

USAID/Office of Women in Development

1981-1983: Chief of Party, Women in Agricultural Development Project in

Malawi (WIADP). Responsibilities included oversight of this national project

with farming systems research, extension and institution building components

carried out through the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1985, the WIADP was

evaluated as the best project that USAID had carried out for the inclusion of

women in its agricultural projects in the decade for women. The WIADP also

was the subject of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,

Report on Science radio broadcast in 1983.

University of Florida

1979-1981, 1983-1984, 1993-1994: Associate Chair, Department of

Anthropology

1980: Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology. Summer.

1979: Director, Summer Institute on African Studies for Teachers and Educators

1978-1992: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and African

Studies.

Gainesville Veterans Administration Medical Center

1979: Affiliated Faculty.

EDUCATION

Cornell University Anthropology Ph.D.

Cornell University Anthropology (by conferral) M.A.

San Francisco State University Anthropology (by thesis) M.A.

University of California, Berkeley Chemistry B.A.

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PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Spring, Anita, Robert Rolfe, and Gregory Parent. Sub-Saharan Business Environment

2011. Gainesville, FL CIBER: 2011.

Nelson Santos António, Virgínia Trigo, Anita Spring et. al. China and Portuguese

Speaking Africa: Business Approaches and Management Models in China,

Mozambique and Cape Verde. Lisbon: Ed. Silabo. 2011.

Burg, Mary Ann, Kevin McCarthy, Phyllis Meek, Constance Shehan, Anita Spring, et

al. Women at the University of Florida. Naples: Whitehall Press. 256 pp. 2003.

Spring, Anita. ed. Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures: Increasing Food Security in

Developing Countries. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 417 pp. 2000.

Spring, Anita and Barbara McDade, eds. African Entrepreneurship: Theory and

Reality. University Press of Florida. 331 pp. 1998.

Steven Brandt, Anita Spring, et al. The Tree Against Hunger: Enset-Based

Agricultural Systems in Ethiopia. Washington DC: American Association for the

Advancement of Science. 1997.

Spring, Anita. Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi. Lanham, and

London: University Press of America. 316 pp. 1995.

Poats, Susan, Marianne Schmink, and Anita Spring, eds. Gender Issues and Farming

Systems Research and Extension. Boulder and London: Westview Press. 450 pp.

1988.

Gallin, Rita and Anita Spring, eds. Women Creating Wealth: Transforming Economic

Development. Washington, DC Association for Women in Development. 185 pp.

1985.

Hoch-Smith, Judith and Anita Spring, eds. Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles. New

York: Plenum Press. 289 pp. 1978.

ARTICLES

Spring, Anita. Revising the standard paradigm on agriculture and African women.

Journal of Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment (forthcoming).

Spring, Anita. Africa's Open for Business: The Sub-Saharan Business Environment,

2011 Findings. In E. Obuah, ed. Proceedings of the International Academy of African

Business & Development, 2012 (in press).

Ndhlovu, Tidings and Spring, Anita. The hopeful continent: Economic development and

the rise of Sub-Saharan Africa's performance. In E. Obuah, editor, Proceedings of the

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International Academy of African Business & Development,2012 (in press).

Spring, Anita. The Sub-Saharan Business Environment Report: Business Information at a

Ready Glance. In E. Obuah, editor, Challenges in the Era of Globalization Proceedings of

the International Academy of African Business & Development. Pp.370-376. 2011.

Spring, Anita. Chinese Development Aid and Agribusiness in Africa. Proceedings of the

International Academy of African Business & Development. Pp.1-12. 2009.

Spring, Anita. Empowering Women in the African Entrepreneurial Landscape. In M.

Ndulo, ed. Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa. New Castle upon Tyne:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 293-326. 2009.

Spring, Anita. African Women in the Entrepreneurial Landscape: Reconsidering the

Formal and Informal Sectors. Journal of African Business. 10: 1: 11-30. 2009.

Ndhlovu, Tiding and Anita Spring. South African Women in Business and

Management. Journal of African Business. 10: 1: 31-49. 2009.

Spring, Anita. The West African Enterprise Network: Business Globalists,

Interregional Trade and U.S. Interventions. In A. Jalloh and T. Falola, eds. The

United States and West Africa: Interactions and Relations. University of Rochester

Press. Pp. 305-324. 2008.

Spring, Anita and Robert Rugimbana. Microfinance and Microsavings for African

Women. International Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. 14:1-7,

2008.

Spring, Anita. African Women in the Entrepreneurial Landscape: Reconsidering the

Formal and Informal Sectors. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos No. 9:6:56-72. 2008.

Spring, Anita and Yang Jiao. China in Africa: African Views of Chinese Investments and

Entrepreneurship. Proceedings of the International Academy of African Business &

Development. 2008, Pp. 55-64. 2008.

McDade, Barbara and Anita Spring. “The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs:

Changing the Environment for Business Development and Economic Growth.”

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 17:1:1-26. 2005.

Spring, Anita. “Gender and the Range of Entrepreneurial Strategies: The Typical and

the New African Woman Entrepreneur.” In A. Jalloh and T. Falola, eds. Black

Business and Economic Power. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. pp. 381-

401. 2002. Reprinted 2008. In Janet Momsen, ed. Gender and Development: Critical

Concepts. Oxford: Routledge.

Spring, Anita. “Agricultural Commercialization: Its Positive Effects on African

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Women Farmers.” Development Economics and Policy. Vol. 23: 13-36. 2001.

Spring, Anita. “Gender Issues and Farming Systems Research,” Proceedings of the

First International Workshop on Enset Cultivation. S. Brandt, T. Abata, and C.

Hiebsh, eds. Addis Ababa: Institute of Agricultural Research. 1996.

Spring, Anita. "Gender and Environment: Some Methods for Extension Specialists,"

Training for Agriculture and Rural Development. Rome: FAO. 1996.

Spring, Anita. "Guidelines for Evaluating the Inclusion of Women and Gender in

Development Projects," Forum Valutazione, No. 5, Rome, Italy. pp. 57-72. 1993.

Spring, Anita. "WID versus Gender," Tropical Research and Development Newsletter:

Directions. Winter 1992. p. 2.

Spring, Anita. "Women Farmers, Structural Adjustment and FAO's Plan of Action for

Integration of Women in Development with V. Wilde. In C. Gladwin, Structural

Adjustment and African Women Farmers. Gainesville, Univ. of Florida Press. pp.

387-408. 1991.

"Profiles of Men and Women Smallholder Farmers in Malawi," in R. Huss-Ashmore

and S. Katz, eds. African Food Systems in Crisis. Part Two: Contending with Change.

New York: Gordon and Breach. pp. 107-136. 1990.

Spring, Anita. "FAO's Plan of Action for the Integration of Women in Development and

its Relation to INGOs," Paris: International Federation for Home Economics, 265: 4:34-

35. 1989.

Spring, Anita. "Putting Women in The Development Agenda: Agricultural

Development in Malawi." In D. Brokensha and P. Little, eds. Anthropology and

Development in East Africa. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 13-42. 1988.

Spring, Anita. "FSR/E, Development Indicators and Food Self-Sufficiency at the

Household Level." How Systems Work: Proceedings of the Farming Systems

Research Symposium 1987. University of Arkansas and Winrock International

Institute for Agricultural Development. pp. 155-177. 1987

Spring, Anita. "Using Male Research and Extension Personnel to Target Women

Farmers." Proceedings of the Kansas State University Farming Systems Research

Symposium 1985. No. 8, pp. 123-142, 1986. Revised and reprinted in the Working

Papers on Women in International Development Series as Paper #144. Michigan

State University, 1987. Revised for S. Poats, M. Schmink, and A. Spring, eds. Gender

Issues in Farming Systems Research and Extension. Boulder: Westview, 407-426.

1988.

Spring, Anita. "Women Farmers and Food in Africa Issues: Some Considerations and

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Suggested Solutions" In A. Hansen and D. McMillan, eds. Food in Sub-Saharan

Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, pp. 332-348, 1986. Revised and reprinted as

Paper #139 in the Working Papers on Women in International Development Series,

Michigan State University. 1987.

Spring, Anita. "Men and Women Participants in a Stallfeeder Livestock Program in

Malawi," Human Organization 45:1:154-162. 1986.

Spring, Anita. "Reaching Female Farmers through Male Extension Workers." in

Training for Agriculture and Rural Development. Rome: FAO/UNESCO/ILO, No.

38, pp. 11-20. 1986. (Also French and Spanish versions).

Spring, Anita. "Trials and Errors: Using Farming Systems Research in Agricultural

Programs for Women" in J. Jones and B. Wallace, eds. Applying Social Science in

Farming Systems Research. Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 129-150. 1986 (Revised

version). "Trials and Errors: Using FSR to Reach Farmers Who Are Often

Neglected," in C. Flora, ed. Proceedings of Kansas State University 1984 Farming

Systems Research Symposium. Paper No. 7, pp. 84-96. 1986.

Spring, Anita. "The Women in Agricultural Development Project: Making Gender

Free Development Work." in R. Gallin and A. Spring, eds. Women Creating Wealth:

Transforming Economic Development. Washington, DC, Association for Women in

Development. pp. 60-66. 1985.

Spring, Anita, and Art Hansen. "The Underside of Development: Agricultural

Development and Women in Northwest Zambia." in Agriculture and Human Values,

2:1:60-67. 1985.

Spring, Anita. "The Apprenticeship System in Northwest Zambia." in B. du Toit and

I. Abdullah, eds. African Healing Strategies. New York: Trado-Medico Books, 135-

150. 1985.

Spring, Anita and Shae Kosch. "Breast Disease and Breast Self-Examination."

Midlife Wellness, 2:2: 80-84. 1985.

Spring, Anita. "Men and Women Participants in a Stallfeeder Livestock Program in

Malawi," (unrevised version) in C. Flora, ed. Proceedings of Kansas State

University's 1983 Farming Research Symposium. No. 6. pp. 726-742. 1984.

Spring, Anita. "Reaching Female Farmers through the Male Extension Staff." in

Extension Aids Circular. Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Malawi, Lilongwe,

Malawi. 1983.

Kosch, Shae and Anita Spring. "Breast Self-Examination Practice of Women with

and without Benign Breast Disease" with S. Kosch. Family Practice Research

Journal 2:3: 71-180. 1983.

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Spring, Anita and Shae Kosch. "Breast Diseases and Breast Self-Examination: To

Detect or Not to Detect." Human Organization 41:3:264-268. 1982.

Spring, Anita. "Women and Men as Refugees: Differential Assimilation of Angolans

in Zambia." (Expanded and revised version) in A. Hansen and A. Oliver-Smith, eds.

Involuntary Migration and Resettlement: the Problems and Responses of Dislocated

Peoples. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 37-47. 1982.

Krischer, Jeffery, Anita Spring, et al. "Evaluation of a Tay-Sachs Screening Program

on a College Campus." Southern Medical Journal 75:2:169-174. 1982.

Spring, Anita. "Women and Men as Refugees: Differential Assimilation of Angolans

in Zambia, Disasters: The International Journal of Disaster Studies and Practice.

3:4:423-438. 1978.

Spring, Anita. "Faith and Participation in Traditional versus Cosmopolitan Medicine

in Northwest Zambia," Anthropological Quarterly 53:2:130-41. 1980

Spring, Anita. "Traditional and Biomedical Health Care Systems in Northwest

Zambia" P. Ulin and M. Segal, eds. Traditional Health Care Delivery in

Contemporary Africa. Syracuse Maxwell School Foreign and Comparative

Studies/African Series XXXV: 57-80. 1980.

Spring, Anita. "Epidemiology of Spirit Possession among the Luvale of Zambia." in

Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles. New York: Plenum Press. pp. 165-190. 1978.

Spring, Anita. "An Indigenous Therapeutic Style and its Consequences for Natality."

in J. Marshall and S. Polgar, eds. Culture, Natality, and Family Planning. Chapel

Hill, North Carolina: Carolina Population Center. pp. 99-125. 1976.

MONOGRAPHS

Spring, Anita and Bob Groelsema. Enhancing Civil Society Organizations and Women’s

Participation in Ethiopia: A Program Design for Civil Society and Women’s

Empowerment. USAID Contract No. IQC #AEP-I-00-99-00040-00.General Democracy

and Governance Analytical Support and Implementation Services. 66 pp. 2004.

Spring, Anita. A Gender Assessment of Health Parameters and Delivery Systems,

Agricultural Enterprises, and Women’s Participation in Eritrea. WIDTECH and

International Center for Research on Women. Washington, DC. 80 pp. 2002.

Spring, Anita, A. Sullivan, P. Litow, and J. Barham. Training Manual on Participatory

Appraisal for Front Line Extension Officers (110 pp.) Synthesis Participatory Rural

Appraisals and Strategies for Agricultural Diversification Potential in St. Lucia. Food

and Agriculture Organization (86 pp.) 2000.

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Spring, A., B. Haile, S. Tesfaye, et al. Enset Farming Systems in Southern Region,

Ethiopia: Report on a Rapid Rural Appraisal in Gurage, Hadiya, and Sidama Zones.

Addis Ababa: GZT. 63 pp. 1996.

Spring, Anita, Ann Flueret, and Lydia Kiyenga. Commercial Agriculture and Women in

Kenya. USAID: Nairobi. 42 pp. 1996.

Spring, Anita. Human Activities and Environmental Contaminants in the Lower Black

River Morass. University of Miami. North-South Center. 87 pp. 1995.

Spring, A. Materials for a Training Course in PRA/RRA in Swaziland. Mimeo. 1993.

Sandra Russo, A Spring et. al. Gender Issues in Agriculture and Natural Resource

Management. The Gender Manual Series, with USAID/Robert Nathan Associates. 80 pp.

1989.

Delancey, Virginia, Deborah Lindsay, and Anita Spring. Somalia: An Assessment of

SWDO, and of the Social and Economic Status of Women in the Lower Shebelle.

USAID/Robert Nathan Associates, DAN-1090-C-00-5124-00, 1987. 125 pp.

Spring, Anita. Profiles of Men and Women Smallholder Farmers in the Lilongwe Rural

Development Project, Malawi. USAID/WID Contract No. AID-OTR-0300-2081. 144 pp.

1984.

Spring, Anita, Craig Smith and Frieda Kayuni. "Evaluations of Women's Programmes

and How Development Projects can include More Women Farmers in Salima, Lilongwe,

Kasungu, Ngabu, Liwonde, Karonga and Mzuzu Agricultural Development Divisions."

Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Malawi. 138 pp. 1983.

Spring, Anita, Craig Smith and Frieda Kayuni. Women Farmers in Malawi: Their

Contribution to Agriculture and Participation in Development Projects. Women in

Agricultural Development Project, USAID/WID Contract No. AID-OTR-0300-C-2081.

192 pp. 1983.

Spring, Anita. Priorities for Women's Programmes. Ministry of Agriculture, Government

of Malawi and USAID/WID Contract No. AID-OTR-0300-C-2081. 91 pp. 1983.

Spring, Anita. Proceedings and Materials from the National Workshop on Women in

Agricultural Development. Lilongwe: Women in Agricultural Development

Project/USAID. 76 pp. 1982.

Spring, Anita. University Center for Agriculture (Dchang) and its Impact on Small-

Holders and Women. USAID Contract No. AID/AFR-C-1636, Yaounde, Cameroon. 72

pp. 1980.

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FAO PUBLICATIONS

Video: The Women in Development Training Programme at the Food and Agriculture

Organization of the United Nations. 1991. 24 minutes.

Editor, Working Paper series on Women in Agriculture (7 items in English, as well as

some in French, Spanish Arabic and Chinese). 1990-1991.

Spring, Anita, Patricia Howard-Borjas and Marilee Karl."Gender Analysis Workshops for

Professional Staff: FAO's Mid-Term Review of Lessons Learned." Working Paper Series

No. 7. Women in Agricultural Production and Rural Development Service. Rome: FAO, 23

pp. 1991.

Spring, Anita and Tuula Ripatti. "Summary of the United Nations Work on Statistics,

Data Bases and Gender." Inter-Agency Consultation on Statistics, Data Bases and Gender

in Agriculture and Rural Development. Rome: FAO. 9 pp. 1991.

Vicki Wilde and Anita Spring. Women in Agricultural Development: FAO's Plan of

Action: illustrated version. 1990. (also French and Spanish)

Spring, Anita. Progress Report on Implementation of the Plan of Action for Women in

Development. FAO Conference Document C 89/14. 1989. (also French, Spanish,

Arabic and Chinese).

Spring, Anita. Women Food Systems and Agriculture, World Survey of the Role of

Women in Development. New York: United Nations. pp. 75-128. 1989. (also French,

Spanish, Arabic and Chinese).

Plan of Action for Integration of Women in Development, FAO Council Document

CL 94/13. 1988 (also French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese).

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

FAO Documentation: Women in Agriculture and Rural Development, 1980-1989. Food

and Agriculture Organization, Rome: FAO. 56 pp. 1989.

Bibliography on Women in Agricultural Development. Gainesville, FL, Women in

Agricultural Development Program. 286 pp. 1986.

LECTURES AND SPEECHES AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND

MEETINGS (I= Invited; R = Refereed papers)

Spring, Anita. What the Chinese Know and We Don't: Africa's Open for Business,

Presentation to the Retired Faculty of the University of Florida, March 7, 2012 (I)

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Spring, Anita. Using SABER 2011 to Understand the African Business Environment,

Florida International Summit, University of Central Florida, April 12, 2012 (I)

African Women on Corporate Boards, African Development Conference, Univ. of

Kansas, October 2, 2009. (I, R)

Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD 17), United Nations, New York

Women, Land and Commercial Ventures in Africa. May 9, 2009. (I)

Presentations on China and Chinese entrepreneurs in Africa: American

Anthropological Association meeting (Dec 2008); Society for Applied

Anthropology (March 19, 2009); University of Florida (January 16, 2009);

Indiana University (March 6, 2009), James Madison University (March 17, 2009);

Yale University (March 21, 2009) (I)

"Decent Work, Livelihood Strategies, and the Environment. " XVI ISA World

Congress of Sociology. RC-40: Sociology of Agriculture and Food Durban, South

Africa. July 26, 2006. (R)

“Empowering Women in the African Entrepreneurial Landscape: Microentrepreneurs to

Business Globalists in the Informal and Formal Sectors.” Cornell University. April 21,

2006

"Paradigms of African Entrepreneurship in the Formal to Informal Sectors. "

African Studies Center, Lisbon, Portugal. December 8, 2005. (I)

"The West African Enterprise Network: Business Globalists, Interregional Trade and

U.S. Interventions. University of Texas, Arlington, Conference on U.S. and West

Africa." April 29, 2005. (I, R)

"Investing in Women Entrepreneurs to Help Economic Development." Plenary Speaker,

University of Asmara, Eritrea Research Symposium. June 2002. (I)

"The New Women Entrepreneurs in Africa." University of Texas, Arlington, Nov. 6,

1999. (I)

"Agricultural Commercialization: Its Positive Effects on Women Farmers." Conference on

Women Farmers: Enhancing Rights and Productivity. Center for Development Research,

Bonn and University of Hoenheim and Tufts University, Bonn, Germany, Aug. 1999. (I)

"The Nature of African Entrepreneurship. "Georgetown University, April 14, 1999. (I)

"Consortium on Agriculture, and Gender and Development." Waginingen, Netherlands,

April 1999. (I)

"An Appraisal of Enset Farming Systems among the Gurage, Hadiya, and Sidama in

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Southwest Ethiopia." XIII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Kyoto, Japan,

Dec. 14, 1997 (I)

"Structural Adjustment: Programs: Finding Positive Effects on Women," International

Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico, July 1993.

"Family Structures and Women Headed Families: Recognition and Empowerment Issues."

19th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Seoul, Korea, August 1992 (I,

R)

"Women in Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean." FAO Regional Round

Table, San Salvador, El Salvador, September 1991. (I)

"A Review of the United Nation Agencies in Terms of their Activities on the Collection

and Disaggregation of Statistics on Women." Inter-Agency Consultation on Statistics and

Data Bases on Women in Agriculture, Rome, Italy, September 1991 (I, R)

"FAO's Plan of Action on Agricultural Development." European Commission for

Agriculture, Working Party on Women and the Rural Family, Prague, Czechoslovakia,

October 1990 (I)

"Activities for Women in Agriculture within FAO's Program." World Farmers'

Conference, Trondheim, Norway, May 1990. (I)

"The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Women Farmers and FAO's Approach, United

Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Vienna, Austria, February 1990 (I)

"FAO's Action Plan and Its Relation to Trade Unions and NGOs." 5th World Conference

on Women and Trade Unions, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 1989.

"FAO's Plan of Action for the Integration of Women: The New Mandate." United Nations

Division for the Advancement of Women, Vienna, Austria, March 1989.

"Gender Issues in Rural-Urban Marketing Networks," with L. Trager. Conferences on

Housing and Urban Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Lilongwe, Malawi, May 1988

and Yamsouukro, Ivory Coast, January, 1989 (I, R)

"Gender, Farming Systems and Agricultural Development in Malawi." Oxford University,

Oxford, England, October 1987 (I)

"The Women in Agricultural Development Project in Malawi." NGO Forum, United

Nations Decade for Women Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, July 1985.

"Women in Agricultural Development in Malawi." International Congress of

Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vancouver, August 1983.

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International Academy of African Business and Development. (R)

"The Sub-Saharan Business Environment, 2011 Findings." El Jadida, Morocco. May 2012.

(R)

"Sub-Saharan Business Environment: Indicators for the 20 Largest Economies."

Edmonton, Canada. May 27, 2011. (R) (I for Plenary)

"Chinese and Agribusiness in Africa." Kampala, Uganda, 2009. (R)

"China in Africa: African Views of Chinese Investments and Entrepreneurship." (with Yang

Jiao). Gainesville, May 21, 2008. (R)

"Conventional and Global African Women Entrepreneurs: Modeling the Similarities and

Differences." London, May 31, 2007. (R)

"The Entrepreneurial Landscape in Africa: Reconsidering Women in the Formal and

Informal Sectors." Accra, Ghana, May 25, 2006. (R)

"African Women Entrepreneurs: Micro levels to Globalists." Dar es Salaam,

Tanzania. April 6, 2005. (R)

American Anthropological Association: Annual Meetings

"Food Actors: Victors and Victims in Ethiopia." Montreal, Canada. November 2011 (R)

"Chinese and Tanzanian economic interactions: Studying transnational south-south

migration and its effects on trade, economic opportunities, and ideas about each other?"

With Christine Avenarius. 2010. New Orleans (R)

"Food Security, Food Sovereignty & Land Grabs in Africa." 2010. New Orleans (R)

"Food Security & Land Grabs for Agriculture". Philadelphia, December 2009 (R)

"China in Africa: Agricultural Assistance and Agribusiness." San Francisco, 2008.

"Ester Boserup’s WID Paradigm Based On Agriculture: Can We Revise It Now?”

Washington. November 29, 2007 (R, I)

“Commercial Ventures for African Women Farmers: Was Boserup Always Right?"

San Jose Calif. November 19, 2006.

"The Entrepreneurial Landscape: Informal to Formal Sector Models." Washington.

December 1, 2004 (R)

"Women Entrepreneurs in Africa: Traders versus the New Generation." San Francisco.

November 2000. (R)

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"Agricultural Commercialization: Its Effects on Women Farmers and Gender Ideologies."

Washington DC, November 1997. (Symposium organizer and paper presenter) (R)

"Farming Systems and Gender Issues in Enset Cultivation in Ethiopia." San Francisco,

November 1996. (R)

"Women in Development in the 21st Century." San Francisco, Dec. 1992. (R)

"Gender, Household Production, and Food Self-Sufficiency in Malawi." Chicago, Nov. 1987. (R)

"Dimensions of Agricultural Development at the Household Level in Malawi."

Philadelphia, December 7, 1986. (R)

"Indicators of Agricultural Development Among Men and Women Farmers in Malawi."

Washington, DC, December 6, 1985. (R)

"Using Farming Systems Research in Agricultural Programs for Women." Denver,

November 15, 1984. (R)

"Health Behavior Patterns of Women with Breast Cancer and Fibrocystic Disease." with

S. Kosch, Washington, DC. December 5, 1980. (R)

Discussant: "The Mother's Role." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropologist,

Denver, March 20, 1980.

"Health Patterns of Women with Fibrocystic Disease." with S. Kosch, Annual Meeting of

the American Anthropological Association, Cincinnati, November 28, 1979. (R)

"Women and Men as Refugees: Differential Assimilation of Angolan Refugees."

Washington, DC, November 15, 1976. (R)

"Epidemiology of Spirit Possession." Mexico City, Nov. 23, 1974 (R)

Annual Meetings--Farming Systems Research and Extension Symposium

"FSRE for North America," Gainesville, FL, October 1993 (organized the Symposium).

"FSR/E, Development Indicators, and Food Self-Sufficiency at the Household Level,"

Manhattan, Kansas, October 1987.

"Reaching Female Farmers Through Male Extension Workers." Manhattan, Kansas,

October 14, 1985 (I)

"Trials and Errors: Using FSR to Reach Farmers Who are Often Neglected." Manhattan,

Kansas, October 10, 1984.

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"Men and Women Participants in a Stallfeeder Livestock Program in Malawi." Manhattan,

Kansas, November 2, 1983.

African Studies Association: Annual Meetings

Discussant: Democratization Processes in Southern Africa." Toronto, Canada, Nov. 1994.

"Profiles of Men and Women Smallholder Farmers in Malawi." New Orleans, Nov. 23, 1985.

(R)

"Steps in a Successful Project: The WIAD Project in Malawi." Los Angeles, Oct. 26,

1984. (R)

"Women's Work in Northwest Zambia: From Valuation to Subordination." Los Angeles

October 31, 1979. (R)

"Faith and Participation in Traditional Versus Cosmopolitan Medicine in Northern

Zambia." Baltimore, November 3, 1978. (R)

Association for Women and Development Meetings, Washington DC

"Women, Agriculture and Food Security" and "Women Disempowering Women."

October 18 and 20, 1993.

"Making Gender-Free Development Work: Women in Agriculture in Malawi." April

1985.

Chair Sessions, November 1991, October 1983.

Miscellaneous Annual and Other Meetings

"Gender and the Range of Entrepreneurial Activities in Africa." Academy of African Business

and Development. Atlanta. April 9, 2004.

"African Women Entrepreneurs: Reconsidering the Formal and Informal Sectors." Society for

Applied Anthropology. Dallas, April 2004. (R)

"FAO's Perspectives on African Women Farmers and Structural Adjustment." with V. Wilde,

Conference on African Women Farmers and Structural Adjustment, Gainesville, Jan. 1990 (I)

"Extension Workers Role in FSR: Problems and Solutions." Conference on Gender Issues

in Farming Systems Research and Extension, Gainesville, February 28, 1986.

"Disaggregating Agricultural Survey Data by Sex in Malawi: Progress to Date and a

Proposal." Association for Women in Development Washington, DC, October 15, 1983.

"Psychological and Health Habit Patterns of Patients with Fibrocystic Disease." with S.

Kosch, Annual Meeting American Psychological Association, Montreal, Sept. 1980. (R)

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"The Underside of Development: Agricultural Development and Women in Zambia." with

A. Hansen, Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology Denver, March 20,

1980. (R)

"Health Care Systems in Zambia," Colloquium on Politics of Health Care Delivery in

Africa. Syracuse University, March 2, 1979. (I, R)

"A Population 'Crisis' Comes to Zambia, or Dr. Malthus, I Presume." Annual Meeting of

the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico, April 6, 1978. (R)

"The Effects of Indigenous Versus Modern Techniques on Lactation." for Symposium on

Biosocial Aspects of Breastfeeding, AAAS, Boston, February 21, 1976 (I)

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FIELD WORK

Research and fieldwork were carried out in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya,

Malawi, Somalia, St. Lucia, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zambia.

Development projects were designed, implemented, and evaluated in Botswana, Cameroon,

India, Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Swaziland, Thailand, and Zimbabwe. Policy advice was

provided to governments in Chile, Malawi, Norway, Somalia, and Thailand. International

conferences were attended in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Germany,

Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, the Netherlands, Norway, and Trinidad. My Fulbright

was in Ethiopia. Training and workshops were carried out in Barbados, Ethiopia, Kenya,

Malawi, Netherlands, and St. Lucia. Universities were contacted for exchange and other

programs in Cameroon, Eritrea, Ghana, Jamaica, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.

AFRICA

Botswana

• Income Production Projects for Women, Sept. 1987

• August 2006

Cameroon

• University Curriculum and Agricultural Development, April-June 1980

Eritrea

• Health Care and Health Delivery Systems; Enterprise Development; Demobilized

Soldiers, 2002

Ethiopia

• Civil Society, Gender, and Democracy and Governance, May 2004

• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, Oct. 2000

• Enset (false banana, Dec. 1993, Feb.-July and Dec.1996

Ghana

• Chinese and African entrepreneurs. May 2012

• Micro-finance; E-commerce and Entrepreneurship, May-June 2006

• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, July 2000

• Universities in Ghana, 1977

Kenya

• Women and commercial agriculture. 2006

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• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, June

2001

• Agricultural Commercialization and Gender Roles, Sept.-Oct. 1996

Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivorie)

• International Conference on Market Towns, Part 2, May 1989

Malawi

• Mainstreaming Women's Programs, July 1990

• International Conference on Market Towns, Part 1, May 1988

• Agricultural Development, Farming Systems Research and Extension, Policy,

Training, Curriculum Enhancement, Women's Programs, 1981-1983

Mozambique

• Entrepreneurs in the formal sector, May-June 2009

Senegal

• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, June

2003

• Islam in West Africa, June 2003

Somalia

• Agricultural Development and Women's Programs, May-July 1987

South Africa

• Decent Work research Aug. 2006

• State of Florida Trade Mission, also University Exchange programs Feb. 2001

• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, Oct. 2000

Swaziland

• Commercial Agriculture and Marketing, April-July 1993

Tanzania

• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, April 2005

Uganda

Entrepreneurs

• Entrepreneurs in the formal sector, May 2009

• The New Generation of African Entrepreneurs in the Global Marketplace, June

2001

• Makerere University, Aug. 1970

Zambia

• Infant and Maternal Health, May-Sept., 1977

• Traditional Religious and Health Care Systems, Population and Demography, 1972

Zimbabwe

• Income Production Projects for Women, Oct. 1987

CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA

Barbados, Trinidad

• Agricultural Development; Farming Systems, May 1984, May 1985

Curriculum Development

Chile

• Mainstreaming Women's Programs, Sept. 1990

El Salvador

• Interagency Meeting for Latin America (FAO), June 1991

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Jamaica

• Environmental Contaminants and Human Activities, 1994-1995

St. Lucia

• Participatory Rural Appraisals, Curriculum Development May-Aug., 2000

ASIA

India

• Watershed Management and Farming Systems, Dec. 1989

Japan

• International Conference on Ethiopia, Dec. 1997

Thailand

• Farming Systems, Dec. 1989

EASTERN and WESTERN EUROPE

Austria

Commission on the Status of Women and Inter-Agency Meetings for FAO, 1989, 1990,

1991

Bulgaria

World Conference of Women and Trade Unions, Sept. 1989

Czech Republic

European Commission on Agriculture, Women and the Rural Family, Oct. 1989

Germany

University of Bonn and GFZ, Women and Agriculture, Nov. 1999

Italy

• Expert Consultation on Women and Food Production, Dec. 1993

• FAO, July 2002, Oct. 2004

Norway

• World Conference of Farmers (Trondheim), Nov. 1989

• Guest of Government on Women in Development in the UN system (Oslo), Nov. 1990

• Training in Gender Analysis (Bergen), June 1991

Netherlands

• Guest of Government to visit training institutes and universities, 1989

• Global Consortium on Gender, Waginingen, 1998

UNITED STATES

• Cultural Aspects of Body Image, Attitudes and Behavior among Women in

Florida, 1997- 2007

• Fibrocystic Breast Disease and Women’s Behavior, 1979-81

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD AND REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS

Provided advice to the United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment on

African agriculture, that resulted in the publications of Africa Tomorrow and Sustainable

Agriculture in Africa: Policy Options for Congress (1984-87)

Board Member, Ceres Magazine, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, 1989-1991

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Reviewer: Journals: American Anthropologist; Human Organization; Social Science and

Medicine; American Journal of Physical Anthropology; Canadian Journal of African

Studies

Proposals: National Science Foundation

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

President, Association for African Anthropology, 2011-2013

President, Culture and Agriculture, 2008-2010

Vice-President, International Academy of African Business and Development

(IAABD), 2010-2013; Executive Secretary, IAABD, 2007-2010

Chair/member, Committee on Ethics, American Anthropological Association, 2003-

2006

Chair, State of Florida, National Summit on Africa, 1998-2001

State of Florida Trade Mission to South Africa, 2001

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES

American Anthropological Association, Fellow

Association for Farming Systems Research and Extension

Association for Women Faculty

African Studies Association

International Academy of African Business and Development

Society for Applied Anthropology, Fellow

Society for International Development, Rome chapter

HONORS AND AWARDS

*Teaching Improvement Program award (TIP), 1995.

*Phi Kappa Phi, 1993.

*Council of Cornell University Women, 1992-1996.

*Invited to be a Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, 1988-89.

(declined)

*United States Department of State, Scholar-Diplomat, Washington, DC, 1979.

*Lilly Post-doctoral Fellowship to Study Educational Methods, Lilly Endowment and

National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978-1979.

CONSULTATIONS (Selected)

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Interagency Consultation on Statistics and Data Bases on Gender in Agriculture and

Rural Development, Rome, Sept. 1991

• Plan of Action for Women in Development in Latin America, El Salvador, Sept. 1991

• Design the Plan of Action for the Integration of Women in Development, Rome, July

1988

• Expert Consultation on Women and Food Production, Rome, Dec. 1983

United States Congress: Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)

• Evaluation of the African Development Foundation in Southern Africa, Sept.-Oct.

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1987

• Advisory Panel on Low Resource Agriculture in Africa, 1985-1987

• Working Group to Assess Agricultural Technology and Food for Africa, Sept. 1984

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Management Systems International, Democracy and Governance in Ethiopia, May

2004

• WIDTECH Gender assessment in Eritrea, July 2002

• Kenya, Commercialization of Agriculture and Gender Roles, Sept.-Oct. 1996

• Market Towns and Rural Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ivory Coast, Jan. 1989

• Office of Women in Development, technical paper prepared for Conference on

Housing and Urban Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Malawi, May 1988

• Consortium for International Development, Orient USAID Team for Malawi, Aug. 1986

• Farming Systems Support Project training on WID and Farming Systems for

University of the West Indies extension personnel, Trinidad, May 1984

• Design team and Social Soundness Analysis, National Agricultural University of

Cameroon, April-June 1980

• Tempo-General Electric and USAID, Population and Public Policy, May 1976

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Trainer, Farming Systems Approach to Research and Extension for Small Farms,

USDA/OICD Short course, Gainesville, July 1992

Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (German aid agency-GTZ)

• Team Leader, Enset Needs Assessment Project, Ethiopia, May-July and Dec. 1996

• Researcher, Workshop on Enset, Ethiopia, Dec. 1993

International Training Division, University of Florida (ITD)

• Farming Systems Research and Extension (FSRE) for Turkish Agricultural

Professionals, Feb.-March, 1993

• FSRE for Bangladeshi Agricultural Professionals, April 1993

Robert Nathan Associates, Inc.

• Gender Issues in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, June 1988

• Program design, Somali Women's Democratic Organization, May 1987

Ronco Inc.

• Evaluation and Social Soundness Analysis, Commercial Agricultural Production and

Marketing Project (USAID) Swaziland, April-July 1992

Women and Development Unit (WAND) of the University of the West Indies

• Train extension agents from Caribbean region, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad, May

1984

• FSSP and CARDI in St. Lucia and Barbados, May 1985