Can gender appreciation of trees enhance landscape multifunctionality? A case of smallholder farming systems on Mount Elgon

Bourne, Mieke; Kimaiyo, Joan; Tanui, Joseph; Catacutan, Delia; Otiende, Verrah A

doi:10.1505/146554815816086480

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“…In terms of the gender issue, previous studies have found that men dominate in almost all AF practice activities, while women dominate in maintenance and marketing (Bourne et al 2015;Mulyoutami et al 2015). This study shows a similar result where the majority of respondents stated that men are dominating in almost all factors.…”

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confidence: 78%

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Gender perspectives on agroforestry practices in Mt. Merapi hazards and risks prone area of Indonesia

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Abstract. Rozaki Z, Rahmawati N, Wijaya O, Safitri F, Senge M, Kamarudin MF. 2021. Gender perspectives on agroforestry practices in Mt. Merapi hazards and risks-prone area of Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 2980-2987. Despite the risk and hazards of the Mt. Merapi prone area, people continue to stay in the area as Agroforestry Adopters. This study aims to analyze the gender perspectives on agroforestry (AF) practices in the Mt. Merapi prone area. 128 men and 86 women were randomly selected from four different areas. Descriptive analysis, independent t-test, and logistic multinomial regression were used to analyze the data. Gender issue in AF practices is found in some parts of the practices. For example, women are more predominant in marketing the products rather than men, whilst the men are predominant in activities that need more strength such as planting. An external factor that is significant is the different impacts of farmers support groups on men and women. Meanwhile, factors such as capital access and AF easiness do not show significant differences between men and women. In other words, these two variables are felt the same among men and women when practicing AF. As for the contribution of AF, social aspect is found to show significant differences, whilst economic and ecology do not show significant differences to both the men and women. Additionally, factors that affect the perspectives on AF contribution vary among the respondents across both groups of men and women. This study suggests that the different perspectives and factors that are affecting AF farmers can be used to develop future AF promotion programs.

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confidence: 78%

“…The study also revealed that factors that affect the men and women perspectives on AF practices vary. These findings were supported by Bose (2015); Bourne et al (2015); Gelinas et al (2015). Their studies stated that gender perspective is affected by education, age, access to market, and economy.…”

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confidence: 72%

Gender perspectives on agroforestry practices in Mt. Merapi hazards and risks prone area of Indonesia

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“…The social-economic factors were the main determinants of agroforestry adoption by the smallholder farmers (Place and Otsuka, 2002;Bourne et al, 2015). The level of education, age and farmer income levels were the most significant determinants of agroforestry adoption (P<0.05) while the household size, environmental policies and land ownership did not.…”

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confidence: 95%

Determinants of agroforestry adoption as an adaptation means to drought among smallholder farmers in Nakasongola District, Central Uganda

Mfitumukiza¹,

Barasa²,

Ingrid³

2017

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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Agroforestry adoption as a drought adaptation option has an omnibus of opportunities for smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions. This study assessed the severity and frequency of drought and the determinants of agroforestry adoption in Nakasongola District. The episodes were examined using the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) set at 3, 6 and 12 months timescales. A cross-sectional survey using semi-structured questionnaires, focus group discussions and key informants were adopted. A total of 200 farmers were randomly selected and studied. The adoption was determined using a binary logistic regression. The SPI results showed that the extreme drought years recorded were 1980, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1995, 1999 The average return period of severe droughts was 4 years. The levels of agroforestry uptake were higher (85%) between July and June drought period. Agrisilviculture, agrosilvopastoral, silvopastoral and apiculture were the most adopted agroforestry systems by the farmers. The household age, level of education and income were the major significant determinants of agroforestry adoption (p<0.05) in adaptation to drought by the smallholder farmers. The potential benefits of agroforestry adoption included the provision of food, fodder, erosion control and soil fertility enrichment, however, the farmers were mainly constrained by inadequate funds, shortage of tree planting stock, limited extension services and information on agroforestry production. Thus, carrying out massive awareness campaigns on agroforestry practices is more likely to increase the uptake.

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“…In both eastern and western Africa, male motivations to plant and care for trees in farms are largely conditioned by obvious commercial opportunities. 76,77 Although women's motivations are also driven by prospects of income generation, they give higher value to the use of tree products as foods for family use. 78,79 Traditionally, however, women have limited rights to tree products, with their access mostly restricted to those products normally considered to have only little or no commercial value.…”

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A Planetary Health Perspective on Agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rosenstock¹,

Dawson

Aynekulu

et al. 2019

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Can gender appreciation of trees enhance landscape multifunctionality? A case of smallholder farming systems on Mount Elgon

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Gender perspectives on agroforestry practices in Mt. Merapi hazards and risks prone area of Indonesia

Gender perspectives on agroforestry practices in Mt. Merapi hazards and risks prone area of Indonesia

Determinants of agroforestry adoption as an adaptation means to drought among smallholder farmers in Nakasongola District, Central Uganda

A Planetary Health Perspective on Agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa

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