More than trees! Understanding the agroforestry adoption gap in subsistence agriculture: Insights from narrative walks in Kenya

Jerneck, Anne; Olsson, Lennart

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.04.004

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“…Inspiration for the article springs from three sources. First, sustainability science research on human-environmental conditions for food security, improved health and gender equality in sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture [6][7][8]11]. Second, feminist ideas in the three development debates on 'gendering development' [23], 'mainstreaming gender' [24] and 'stand-alone goals for gender equality' [25].…”

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“…Even fewer studies have examined how climate change is experienced in the context of poverty and gender inequality in exposed settings in rainfed small-scale agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, which is the dominant form of livelihood for the majority of populations there [5]. Research in sustainability science has contributed to identify aspects that are vital for understanding the conditions and scope for climate change adaptation, gender equality and poverty alleviation in this region [6][7][8]. As one fundamental aspect of this, the food and health imperatives imply that small-scale farmers strive to secure food while fending off multiple threats to their health [6][7][8].…”

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“…Research in sustainability science has contributed to identify aspects that are vital for understanding the conditions and scope for climate change adaptation, gender equality and poverty alleviation in this region [6][7][8]. As one fundamental aspect of this, the food and health imperatives imply that small-scale farmers strive to secure food while fending off multiple threats to their health [6][7][8]. As another vital aspect, the gender imperative refers to how gender as a profound social relation manifests itself in the regulation and use of labor, land and also marital love [9].…”

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“…Gender regimes thus entail institutions that determine how resources are accessed, distributed and consumed, how labor is coded, recoded and divided into both productive and reproductive tasks and how social practices and responsibilities are discursively defined and fulfilled. Taken together the three imperatives of food, health and gender, influence how farmers will perceive risk, prioritize tasks in everyday farming, experience and share hardship, and shape aspirations for future livelihoods [6][7][8]. In all, the imperatives affect farmers' adaptation and mitigation space and should be core to serious climate change responses or development initiatives [11].…”

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

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Adaptation and mitigation are two key responses to climate change. In the global South they prompt many questions: what is the direction and degree of change needed? How can new climate change policies be aligned with existing development initiatives? How are core social relations such as gender understood and prioritized in relation to technical and other solutions? In search of synergies between adaptation, development and mitigation, this article asks a pertinent question for sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture in particular: what can adaptation and mitigation learn from development debates on social goal setting, institutional change and gender equality? From the perspective of sustainability science and feminist literature, three main findings emerge. First, as regards social goal setting, adaptation and mitigation should, like development, support the escape out of poverty, ill-health and food-insecurity. Second, as regards institutions, adaptation and mitigation should address how gender regulates access to, use of and control over resources in terms of labor, land and strategic decision-making power. Third, as regards gender equality, adaptation and mitigation should learn from how development in theory and practice has addressed gender, women, nature and the environment. At its core, the analysis contributes twelve salient themes that can significantly inform adaptation and mitigation in research, policy and practice, thus serving as inspiration for a critical debate on much needed synergetic trajectories.

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“…), improves soil conditions such as soil nutrition, moisture content of soil, water-holding capacity etc., improves groundwater recharge, reduces the dependency of people on the natural forests and reduces incidence of pest and diseases (Gangadharappa et al, 2010;Roy and Tiwari, 2012). Concurrently, the agroforestry moderates micro-climate (reduction of wind speed, stabilization of daily mean temperature, modification of solar radiation, increase of air humidity and decrease of evaporation) and mitigates land degradation through the means of controlling water erosion, soil erosion, reclaiming marginalized land and increasing irrigation and agricultural productivity (Jerneck and Olsson, 2013;Oyebamiji et al, 2013). With their multilayered vegetation structures, agroforestry plantations serve as an important habitat for wild flora and fauna (Tangjang and Arunachalam, 2009).…”

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