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Gender in Agroforestry: Implications for Action-Research
Women in sub-Saharan Africa are major contributors
to the agricultural economy, but their lower access
than men to productive resources and opportunities,
limits them from achieving optimal production. This
paper gives a ...
Learning about sustainability and gender through Farmer Field Schools in the Taita Hills, Kenya
This research uses transformative learning theory to explore how Farmers Field Schools (FFS) of the Taita
Hills, Kenya have contributed to environmental sustainability, with a particular focus on gendered
learning. Both ...
Plant domestication and its contributions to in situ conservation of genetic resources in Benin
All over the world, plant domestication is continually being carried out by local communities to support their needs for food, fibre, medicine, building materials, etc. Using participatory rapid appraisal approach, 150 ...
Gender Differentiated Preferences for a Community-Based Conservation Initiative
Community-based conservation (CBC) aims to benefit local people as well as to achieve
conservation goals, but has been criticised for taking a simplistic view of “community” and
failing to recognise differences in the ...
Technology tracking: Understanding decisions to adopt, not to adopt, and dis-adopt household greywater filtration systems
Jordan is one of the world’s water-poorest countries. The demand for potable and productive water is ever increasing due to population growth, climate change, increasing numbers of refugees hosted by the country, as well ...
Gender and sustainable increase in production through irrigation: The Case of Ntcheu District, Malawi
The need to sustainably intensify agricultural production using irrigation dates as far back as the Egyptian civilization. In modern day Africa, irrigation offers an opportunity to get more crops per drop as a solution to ...
Gender dynamics in water governance institutions: the case of Gwanda's Guyu-Chelesa Irrigation Scheme in Zimbabwe
The need to incorporate women in development interventions has widely been highlighted in development literature. Despite recent attempts to include women in such efforts, the FAO's 2011 State of Agriculture Report points ...
Gender, intensification, extension and the “missing link” in Ntcheu District of Malawi
Since the inception of extension services in the mid-1940s in Malawi the benefits associated with extension service delivery are two fold; providing agricultural intensification knowledge through innovation brokering as ...
GENDERED PATTERNS OF ASSET OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN EGYPT
This study, conducted in Egypt, sought to identify the types of assets women and men
perceive as beneficial for their wellbeing, and to determine if patterns of ownership and
control of assets coincide with one another. A ...