BARBARA LEWIS, Associate Professor, received her B.A. from Smith College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern. Her research projects in the Cote d'Ivoire, include occupational, ethnic and religious identities among truckers (l966, l967-68); credit needs and cooperative efforts among market women (l970); fertility, employment and status among urban women (l973-74), l976). Her subsequent research has been on the politics of agricultural planning and policy implementation in underdeveloped countries, including field work on the impact of government policies on food and export crop production in Cameroon (l983, l985), Ivory Coast (1985, 1988-89), Guinea, Mali (1986). She has received research funds from the SSRC, the Population Council, USAID and USDA, the Ministry of Planning of the Cote d'Ivoire,, and served as a Fulbright Fellow. She and Professor Elizabeth Annan-Yao of Cote d'Ivoire are currently completing research on the impact of economic crisis and adjustment on food production in Cote d'Ivoire, focussing on gender roles in production. Some of her publications are:

"The Dioula of the Ivory Coast," in Papers on the Manding (l973); La Fecondite, L'emploi et le Statut de la Femme en Millieu Urbain (l975); "Interest Group Formation and Political Access in the Ivory Coast," in Northwestern Papers on National Integration; "Economic Activity and the Status of Urban Women," in Emergent Women: "The Limitations of Group Action Among Entrepreneurs," in African Women in Changing Perspective; Political Variables and Food Price Policy in West Africa (DSB/AID); editor, Invisible Farmers: Women and the Crisis in Agriculture (WID/AID); "Women in the Development Perspective"in O'Barr, ed. Third World Women in Politics (l982); "The Impact of Rural Development Policy on Women" in Stichter and Bay, ed., Women in Black Africa (l984); "Getting Women on the African Agricultural Policy Agenda," in Harvey Glickman ed., The Crisis and Challenge of African Development, Greenwood Press, 1988; "Government Action, Government Inaction and Food Production in Cameroon," in Naomi Chazan and Tim Shaw eds., African Agricultural Policy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988; 'Farming Women, Public Policy & the Women's Ministry: A Case Study from Cameroon," in Staudt, ed., Women & Bureaucratic Power, forthcoming. She is currently completing a book on the political economy of Cote d'Ivoire.