Anthropometric characteristics of female smallholder farmers of Uganda--Toward design of labor-saving tools.

ABSTRACT: Sub-Saharan African women on small-acreage farms carry a disproportionately higher labor burden, which is one of the main reasons they are unable to produce for both home and the market and realize higher incomes. Labor-saving interventions such as hand-tools are needed to save time and/or increase productivity in, for example, land preparation for crop and animal agriculture, post-harvest processing, and meeting daily energy and water needs. Development of such tools requires comprehensive and content-specific anthropometric data or body dimensions and existing databases based on Western women may be less relevant. We conducted measurements on 89 women to provide preliminary results toward answering two questions. First, how well existing databases are applicable in the design of hand-too

SUBMITTER: Mugisa DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4754207 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature