Skills to stay: Social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka

Iyer, Soundarya and Rao, Nitya (2024) Skills to stay: Social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka. Third World Quarterly, 45 (4). pp. 677-697. ISSN 0143-6597

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Abstract

Skill development is considered to be critically important for the eradication of poverty and for social inclusion in the Global South. The Indian government launched broad reforms under the Skill India Mission in 2015 to train 400 million Indians by 2022. However, little is known about the social processes of skill acquisition, especially within the agricultural sector in rural India. In 2020–2021, we conducted work-life course interviews with 66 men and women between the ages of 18 and 65 in a village in southern Karnataka to better understand the informal and non-formal processes of skill acquisition in agriculture and allied activities. We argue that in the absence of formal skilling opportunities, the existing informal and non-formal skilling landscapes are filtered through the intersecting identities of gender, generation, caste and class, and are central in shaping farming futures.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Issue on: The social life of skills in the Global South. Guest Editors: Trent Brown and Geert de Neve
Uncontrolled Keywords:	agriculture,gender,india,karnataka,learning,skills,development,sdg 5 - gender equality,sdg 4 - quality education,4* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3303
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2022 17:30
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 11:44
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88569
DOI:	10.1080/01436597.2022.2132929

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