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Women, Irrigation and Social Norms in Egypt
New research from Egypt demonstrates that women play a far more active role in irrigation than previously thought. Yet women’s contributions to irrigation remain poorly understood and undervalued, limiting their access to ...
Making Egyptian women’s agricultural labor visible and improving their access to productive assets
In rural Egypt, social norms frame women as “helpers” to their families and husbands instead of as workers in their own right. Women are assumed not to contribute to agriculture or participate in irrigation. However, a ...
التقرير الخاص بالاجتماع الذي تم انعقادة بكلا من مركز سيدي سالم (محافظة كفر الشيخ )،ومنطقة الانطلاق بالنوبارية (محافظة البحيرة ) خصوص دراسة خصائص سبل العيش، وتأثير واعتماد الابتكارات الزراعية
Recommendations for extension programs in Kafr Sheikh and Noubariya, Egypt, based on survey findings with 400 farmers (200 men and 200 women) and discussions with 60 local extension agents.
Women's Contribution to Climate Change Adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme
Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Association of Geographers panel on 'A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change'. April 23, Chicago, Illinois.
Women's Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme through Cactus Cultivation and Adjusted Irrigation.
This study examines the site-specific, social, political, ecological, and economic contexts that shape agricultural practices and policies in two desert resettlements of Sa’yda and Intilaq, also called the New Lands that ...
Characterization of production systems, livestock management practices, documenting feeding systems and assessing major nutrient deficiencies and water foot print
This is part of the activity on the characterization of the production system in the action site Nile Delta under CRP DS
جعل العمالة الزراعية للمرأة المصرية واضحة وتحسين وصولها إلى الأصول الإنتاجية
ُفي المناطق الريفية في مصر، تؤطر الأعراف الاجتماعية النساء “كمساعدات” لأسرهن وأزواجهن بدلاً من كونهن عاملات بحد ذاتهن. يفترض بالنساء عدم المساهمة في الزراعة أو المشاركة في الري. ومع ذلك، فقد تحدثت سلسلة من الدراسات الحديثة ...
دراسة عن خصائص سبل العيش، وتأثير واعتماد الابتكارات الزراعية في سيدي سالم بمحافظة كفر الشيخ ،ومنطقة انطلاق في النوبارية محافظة البحيرة
This presentation highlights research findings of 30 extension agents and 2 policy makers about gender-specific problems and extension needs in Noubariya based on a 200 farmer survey (100 men and 100 women).
The gendered impacts and coping strategies of the COVID 19 pandemic in rural Egypt and Tunisia
Through a survey carried out with 100 male and 100 female dryland farmers in rural Egypt and Tunisia,
we examine how COVID-19 affected them, and identify coping mechanisms they employed to maintain
crop and livestock ...
Gender and Asset Ownership in the Old and New Lands of Egypt
The Middle East and North Africa region has the lowest level of women’s land ownership in the world, yet little research has explored the barriers and opportunities women face in land ownership in the region. This paper ...