Women and the Food Cycle

This collection of articles includes case studies of attempts to improve small-scale food processing, remembering that ''small is beautiful, but difficult''. Case studies cover grain and fruit processing, baking, beekeeping, and small-scale oil production.

Marilyn Carr is Chief of the Economic Empowerment Section of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She is a development economist with over 20 years experience in Asia and Africa and specializes in the fields of small enterprise development and technology choice and diffusion.