A gender strategy for pro-poor climate change mitigation
01 Jan 2013-
TL;DR: A strategy for gender research for climate change mitigation is presented in this article, where the authors focus on gender, gender justice, and low emissions development in the context of climate change.
Abstract: 3 Introduction 7 Focusing on Gender 10 Mapping the Intersection of Climate Change Mitigation and Gender: Context and Opportunity 14 A Strategy for Gender Research 20 Political ecology analysis: Shifting power to improve impacts 21 Supporting Local Innovation 30 Evaluating Women’s Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation 35 Approaches to participatory action research and scaling up 42 References 48 Appendix 1: Definitions of Gender, Gender Justice and Low Emissions Development 55 Appendix 2: Facilitating Changes in Agricultural Technologies and, in the Process, in Gender Relations in Upland Honduras 57 Appendix 3: Key Players in the Climate Change Finance World 59 Appendix 4: Placing Climate Change on the National Agenda in Ghana 61 Appendix 5: What a narrative analysis can tell us about climate change mitigation .. 63 Appendix 6: GROOTS, leadership and gender-just climate change mitigation ......... 65 Appendix 7: Climate Airwaves, climate justice and long-term capacity building ...... 66 Appendix 8: What is social learning? 68 Appendix 9: Interviewees 70
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TL;DR: In this paper, a top-down approach to identify potential labor-saving climate-smart agriculture technologies for women farmers in areas facing high climate risks is presented, which involves mapping women in agriculture, climate risks, and poverty hotspots and entails understanding the role of women in agricultural activities to identify the suitable CSA options for reducing the levels of labor drudgery.
Abstract: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has a significant role to play in reducing the gender gap in labor burden for women in agriculture. A targeted approach to address this gap can be useful in developing a women-responsive climatic risk management plan focused on reducing their labor burden in agriculture, especially in areas with high climate risks. The paper therefore presents a top–down approach to identify potential labor-saving CSA technologies for women farmers in areas facing high climate risks. It involves mapping women in agriculture, climate risks, and poverty hotspots and entails understanding the role of women in agricultural activities to identify the suitable CSA options for reducing the levels of labor drudgery. The study is illustrated for Nepal where feminization of agriculture is rapidly increasing, a high level of climatic risks persists, and adaptive capacity to climate change is very low, especially among women in agriculture. Results are presented for two hotspot districts, Rupandehi and Chitwan. Household socioeconomic characteristics were found to play a major role in women’s labor contribution in different crop production activities. Discussions with farmers provided a list of more than 15 CSA interventions with labor reduction as well as yield-improving potential. Accordingly, considering the local crop, agro-climate, and social conditions, and women’s participation in different agricultural activities, CSA technologies and practices such as direct seeded rice (zero tillage and low tillage using machine), green manuring (GM), laser land leveling (LLL), and system of rice intensification (SRI) were found to potentially reduce women’s drudgery in agriculture along with improvement in productivity and farm income.
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...Improving women’s access to productive resources, finance and knowledge, promoting off-farm employment, and capacity building on adaptation options can empower them to adapt to a changing climate (Huyer et al. 2015; Edmunds et al. 2013; Chaudhury et al. 2012; Huyer 2016)....
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework is proposed for the problem of LITERATURE this paper with a focus on the use of abstractions in the form of columns and columns.
Abstract: .................................................................................................................................. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................ v APPENDICES ................................................................................................................................ x LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................ x LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................................................... xi LIST OF PLATES ......................................................................................................................... xi LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................... xiii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Preamble ................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 General context ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Research motivation.................................................................................................................. 3 1.4 Aim ........................................................................................................................................... 6 1.5 Objectives ................................................................................................................................. 6 1.6 Conceptual framework .............................................................................................................. 7 1.7 Methodology summary ............................................................................................................. 7 1.8 Study assumptions .................................................................................................................... 8 1.9 Chapter sequence ...................................................................................................................... 9 1.10 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................. 9 CHAPTER 2: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND LITERATURE REVIEW ...................... 10 2.
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Abstract: ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................................... 5 Acronyms ................................................................................................................................... 7
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...Gender relationships and dynamics can influence the way mitigation technologies are designed and delivered (Edmunds, Sasser, and Wollenberg 2013)....
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TL;DR: A number of low-emission development (LED) options exist in agriculture, which globally emi... as discussed by the authors, which is needed to meet global climate policy targets, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Abstract: Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture is needed to meet global climate policy targets. A number of low-emission development (LED) options exist in agriculture, which globally emi...
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...The distributional and procedural justice reasons for bringing gender into LED in agriculture are highlighted by Edmunds, Sasser, and Wollenberg (2013); we extend these justifications to include empowerment as a further potential ‘co-benefit’ alongside economic and agroecological co-benefits....
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...Such top-down approaches are legitimized by portrayals of climate change as an urgent crisis (Edmunds et al., 2013), affecting vast areas and populations (IPCC, 2013), which require rapid measures....
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...The technical nature of recommendations and seeming ‘lack of fit’ with specific localities, however, can make it difficult for intermediary organizations on the ground to accept their relevance and roll them out (Edmunds et al., 2013)....
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...The sheer scale, technical, and institutional complexity of many LED projects can mean that gender gets lost, is seen as increasing transaction costs, or is considered primarily a local concern and therefore a low priority compared to ‘getting the technology out’ (Edmunds et al., 2013)....
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...Given these complexities, farmers and intermediary organizations may struggle to engage effectively LED projects let alone address gender (Edmunds et al., 2013)....
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the alternative to relativism is partial, locatable, critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared conversations in epistemology.
Abstract: Recent social studies of science and technology, for example, have made available a very strong social constructionist argument for all forms of knowledge claims, most certainly and especially scientific ones. Feminist objectivity is about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object. It allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see. The alternative to relativism is partial, locatable, critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared conversations in epistemology. “Passionate detachment” requires more than acknowledged and self-critical partiality. Positioning is, therefore, the key practice in grounding knowledge organized around the imagery of vision, and much Western scientific and philosophic discourse is organized in this way. Situated knowledges are about communities, not about isolated individuals. The only way to find a larger vision is to be somewhere in particular.
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...At the theoretical level, see Haraway (1988) and Harding (1995) for extended discussion of feminist objectivity....
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26 Mar 2004TL;DR: Jasanoff as mentioned in this paper discusses the science of science and political order in early twentieth-century France and America, focusing on the role of science in the formation of the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Abstract: Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index
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TL;DR: This paper studied the relationship between social norms and social perceptions in intra-household gender dynamics, and found that women are less motivated than men by self-interest and might this affect bargaining outcomes.
Abstract: Highlighting the problems posed by a ''unitary'' conceptualization of the household, a number of economists have in recent years proposed alternative models. These models, especially those embodying the bargaining approach, provide a useful framework for analyzing gender relations and throwing some light on how gender asymmetries are constructed and contested. At the same time, the models have paid inadequate or no attention to some critical aspects of intra-household gender dynamics, such as: What factors (especially qualitative ones) affect bargaining power? What is the role of social norms and social perceptions in the bargaining process and how might these factors themselves be bargained over? Are women less motivated than men by self-interest and might this affect bargaining outcomes? Most discussions on bargaining also say little about gender relations beyond the household, and about the links between extra-household and intra-household bargaining power. This paper spells out the nature of these com...
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...45 blocked by intra-household politics or have unintended and damaging impacts on vulnerable groups (Agarwal 1997)....
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...Though working through ‘groups’ shows great promise, community-scale interventions can be 45 blocked by intra-household politics or have unintended and damaging impacts on vulnerable groups (Agarwal 1997)....
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, Bina Agarwal argues that the single most important economic factor affecting women's situation is the gender gap in command over property in rural South Asia, a critical determinant of economic well-being, social status, and empowerment.
Abstract: This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia. In a pioneering and comprehensive analysis Bina Agarwal argues that the single most important economic factor affecting women's situation is the gender gap in command over property. In rural South Asia, the most significant form of property is arable land, a critical determinant of economic well-being, social status, and empowerment. But few women own land; fewer control it. Drawing on a vast range of interdisciplinary sources and her own field research, and tracing regional variations across five countries, the author investigates the complex barriers to women's land ownership and control, and how they might be overcome. The book makes significant and original contributions to theory and policy concerning land reforms, 'bargaining' and gender relations, women's status, and the nature of resistance.
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01 Oct 1989
TL;DR: This article argued that farmers in resource-poor areas are innovators and adaptors, and that agricultural research must take farmers' own agendas and priorities into account, arguing that they are adaptors and innovators.
Abstract: Argues that farmers in resource-poor areas are innovators and adaptors, and that agricultural research must take farmers' own agendas and priorities into account.
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