Labour-burdened women utilising their marginalised indigenous knowledge in food production processes: The case of Khambashe rural households, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Garutsa, Tendayi C.; Nekhwevha, Fhulu

doi:10.1080/21528586.2016.1204243

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“…Women’s roles are predominant in all aspects, from food production (Carney and Elias, 2006; Ebhuoma and Simatele, 2017), to food gathering (Mithofer and Waibel, 2003), food processing (Ibnouf, 2012; Nyadanu et al , 2017), food preservation and storage (Ibnouf, 2012; Garutsa and Nekhwevha, 2018) and trading of indigenous foods (Maroyi, 2011; Kiptot et al , 2014). Although this can be viewed as a burden (Garutsa and Nekhwevha, 2016; Boakye et al , 2018), other scholars argue that the comprehensive involvement of women enhances the stability of food at household level (Mithofer and Waibel, 2003; Ebhuoma and Simatele, 2017).…”

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Revitalizing indigenous ways of maintaining food security in a changing climate: review of the evidence base from Africa

Chanza

Musakwa

2022

IJCCSM

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Purpose Against a milieu of fragmented research that documents indigenous practices related to food security, and the heterogeneous settings from which the studies have been conducted, this study aims to synthesize the evidence of indigenous knowledge-food security nexus to strengthen the call for the revitalization of indigenous knowledge (IK) as part of the mechanisms to manage food security challenges being aggravated by climate change. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on insights from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this study reviews 122 articles accessed from the Web of Science and Scopus databases, which covered indigenous methods used for producing, gathering, processing, preserving and storing diverse food sources that indigenous people deploy in securing their food systems. Findings The surge in attention to focus on IK-food security nexus tends to be influenced by the growing acknowledgement of climate change impacts on food systems. Essentially, the IK-based practices adopted address all the four food security pillars that are specified by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) as availability, accessibility, utilization and stability. The main motivation behind the continued use of IK-based ways relates largely to the interest to be food secure against climatic shocks and partly to the desire to maintain people’s food cultures and food sovereignty. Originality/value This study deploys the food security pillars provided by the FAO (2012) to demonstrate that IK-based ways of food management are capable of addressing all the four food security dimensions, a critical observation toward revitalizing IK in managing growing food security challenges that are intensified by climate change in SSA.

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Revitalizing indigenous ways of maintaining food security in a changing climate: review of the evidence base from Africa

Chanza

Musakwa

2022

IJCCSM

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“…Secondly, the limited and ineffective opportunities to participate in decision-making processes, for example, in politics (Dyer 2018;Lama et al 2017; Sindhuja and Murugan 2018), agriculture (Azanaw and Tassew 2017) and at the workplace (Limuwa and Synnevåg 2018;Rohe et al 2018). The identification of different challenges which women face in regard to participation and representation clash with the fact that the women in these cases often bear the responsibility for survival and sustainability of the respective community (Belahsen et al 2017;Garutsa and Nekhwevha 2016;Limuwa and Synnevåg 2018;Rohe et al 2018). Apart from this problem-oriented focus creating system knowledge, quite many articles in this cluster offer evidence-based recommendations and solution strategies on how to improve those inequalities by suggesting possible areas of intervention such as enforcing legislation, mentorship, quotas, financial inclusion, etc.…”

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A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science

Frank,

Mühlhaus,

Mustelin

et al. 2024

Sustain Sci

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We conducted a systematic review of the available peer-reviewed literature that specifically focuses on the combination of sustainability and gender. We analyzed the existing peer-reviewed research regarding the extent to which gender plays a role in the empirical literature, how this is methodologically collected and what understanding of gender is applied in those articles. Our aim is to provide an overview of the current most common fields of research and thus show in which areas gender is already being included in the sustainability sciences and to what extent and in which areas this inclusion has not yet taken place or has only taken place to a limited extent. We identified 1054 papers that matched our criteria and conducted research on at least one sustainable development goal and gender research. Within these papers (i), the overall number of countries where lead authors were located was very high (91 countries). While the majority of lead authors were located in the Global North, less than a third of the articles were led by authors located in the Global South. Furthermore, gender is often just used as a category of empirical analysis rather than a research focus. We were able to identify (ii) a lack in coherent framing of relevant terms. Often no definition of sustainability was given, and only the sustainability goals (SDGs or MDGs) were used as a framework to refer to sustainability. Both gender and sustainability were often used as key words without being specifically addressed. Concerning the knowledge types of sustainability, our expectation that system knowledge dominates the literature was confirmed. While a problem orientation dominates much of the discourse, only a few papers focus on normative or transformative knowledge. (iii) Furthermore, the investigated literature was mainly contributing to few SDGs, with SDG 5 ‘Gender Equality’ accounting for 83% of all contributions, followed by SDG 8 ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’ (21%), SDG 3 ‘Good Health and Well-being’ (15%) and SDG 4 ‘Quality Education’ (12%). We were additionally able to identify seven research clusters in the landscape of gender in sustainability science. (iv) A broad range of diverse methods was utilized that allow us to approximate different forms of knowledge. Yet within different research clusters, the spectrum of methodologies is rather homogeneous. (v) Overall, in most papers gender is conceptualized in binary terms. In most cases, the research is explicitly about women, running the risk that gender research in sustainability sciences grows into a synonym for women's studies.

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“…A number of these publications discusses the pivotal role of indigenous knowledge on a wide array of themes encompassing the field of social, environmental and health sciences. Its applicability on ecosystem degradation, climate change and climate-related hazards, food security, human well-being, and conservation of biodiversity has lately gained more interest and recognition worldwide (Ford et al, 2016;Garutsa & Nekhwevha, 2016;Hiwasaki et al, 2015;Ingty, 2017;Mistry & Berardi, 2016;Nkomwa et al, 2014;Quave & Pieroni, 2015;Wilder et al, 2016). This includes the inclusion of indigenous knowledge systems on international reports and assessments of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Ford et al 2016), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (Tengö et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Asian Indigeneity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Challenges of the 2030 Agenda

Buenavista

Wynne‐Jones

McDonald

2018

East Asian Community Rev

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Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda pledges to leave no one behind through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets ratified by the international community to address the global challenges of our time. This framework and universal action plan articulates the inclusion of the indigenous peoples in the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Nonetheless, the world's largest inhabitants of indigenous peoples are in Asia. However, despite the affirmation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the concept of indigeneity is still controversial, politically contested, and considered immaterial by many states in the Asian region. With limited rights and inadequate access to social services, the indigenous knowledge systems and practices has evolved through time to provide solutions to local problems that sustained many marginalised communities. This article revisits the socio-political notion of indigeneity in the region and its implications to the indigenous community. It also explores the diversity of indigenous knowledge systems and traditional practices and its relevance on the SDGs particularly on food security, community livelihoods, human well-being, natural resources management, and biodiversity conservation. The conclusion reflects the need for legitimate recognition and political enablement of indigenous peoples in the implementation of 2030 Agenda by forging collaborations between academic researchers, policy-makers, and indigenous organizations in the Asian community.

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Labour-burdened women utilising their marginalised indigenous knowledge in food production processes: The case of Khambashe rural households, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Revitalizing indigenous ways of maintaining food security in a changing climate: review of the evidence base from Africa

Revitalizing indigenous ways of maintaining food security in a changing climate: review of the evidence base from Africa

A systematic review of peer-reviewed gender literature in sustainability science

Asian Indigeneity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Challenges of the 2030 Agenda

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