New seeds, gender norms and labor dynamics in Hoima District, Uganda

Lodin, Johanna Bergman; Paulson, Susan; Mugenyi, Milly

doi:10.1080/17531055.2012.696889

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“…However, our results, as well as those of other studies (Bergman Lodin et al 2012;Malapit et al 2014;Bain et al 2016), confirm that time poverty is gendered in Uganda. Women overwhelmingly report that they have too much work and not enough leisure.…”

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confidence: 34%

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Cattle as technological interventions: The gender effects of water demand in dairy production in Uganda

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Smallholder dairy production dominates the country of Uganda, with over 90% of the national herd owned by smallholders. To reduce hunger, malnutrition, and raise families out of poverty agricultural development, interventions in Uganda have focused on increasing milk production through the introduction of improved dairy cow breeds. Development actors, such as the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) program in Uganda, see crossbreed dairy cows as a key technological intervention for improving production. Drawing on a multi-method study (spatial analysis, surveys, and qualitative interviews) of dairy smallholders, our paper examines the gendered effects of the introduction of crossbreed dairy cows. To ensure peak performance, improved breeds require more inputs (e.g., water, feed, and medicine), which are labor and time intensive with specific gendered outcomes. Our findings reveal that both men and women identify fetching water as one of the greatest challenges in maintaining dairy cows, but women and children disproportionately fetch the water and women have higher reported rates of time poverty. Water quality is also an issue, with smallholders struggling to provide clean water to cows, and our basic water testing reveals water sources with high nitrate levels that can be harmful for children and dairy cows.

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confidence: 34%

“…Research has established that time poverty is gendered in Uganda, in that women overwhelmingly feel like they have too much work and not enough leisure (Bergman Lodin et al 2012;Malapit et al 2014;Bain et al 2016). Tasks such as water collection contribute to time poverty.…”

Section: Gendered Dimensions Of Water Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cattle as technological interventions: The gender effects of water demand in dairy production in Uganda

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et al. 2017

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“…As there is evidence that households favor technologies that can be directed to male crops and activities (Evers, 2001), there are various examples where the introduction of a new technology increased women's burden (Agarwal, 1985;Bergman-Lodin et al, 2012;Kumar, 1994;Doss, 2001;Quisumbing et al, 1995). Bergman-Lodin et al (2012) also found negative effects on children; however, most studies do not focus on children. An increase in women's time-use may likely come from where women do not have the bargaining power to reject more laborintense technologies or to demand a re-allocation of activities (Fisher et al, 2000).…”

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“…Development strategies that overlook these dynamics can fail or have negative consequences for vulnerable household members. For example, promoting conservation agriculture may lead to more labor for women because of the increased weeding required (Farnworth et al, 2015); and the exacerbated need for bird scaring associated with the new rice variety NERICA has been shown to prevent children from going to school (Bergman-Lodin et al, 2012). There are concerns that such time-use changes have negative consequences on nutrition and child care (Johnston et al, 2018).…”

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Of Trackers and Tractors. Using a Smartphone App and Compositional Data Analysis to Explore the Link Between Mechanization and Intra-Household Allocation of Time in Zambia

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Digital tools may help to study socioeconomic aspects of agricultural development that are difficult to measure such as the effects of new technologies on the intra-household allocation of time. As new technologies may target different crops and tasks, they can affect time-use of men, women, boys and girls differently. Development strategies that overlook such effects can have negative consequences. In this paper, the effects of agricultural mechanization on timeuse in smallholder farming households in Zambia were investigated. For this, a novel data collection method was used: a pictorial smartphone application that allows real-time recording of time-use to eliminate recall bias. Existing studies analysing intra-household allocation of resources often focus on adults, this study pays attention to children as well. The study also addressed seasonal variations. For data analysis, compositional data analysis was used, which yields higher accuracy than univariate analysis by accounting for the co-dependence and sum constraint of time-use data. The study found that women benefit relatively more from mechanization during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation. There was some evidence that the time "saved" is used for off-farm and domestic work. No negative secondround effects during weeding and harvesting/processing and no negative effects on children were found.

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“…In complementary papers (Bergman Lodin ; Bergman Lodin et al. ), we investigate differences and dynamics within these households, including domestic bargaining processes and specific burdens and benefits for women and children in MHHs. To better understand how the cultivation of NERICA has influenced women, men, and children's daily lives and well‐being in Hoima District, we advise the reader to consider these three papers together.…”

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NERICA Upland Rice: Seeds of Change for Female‐Headed Households in Uganda?

Lodin

Paulson

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2014

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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Recognizing that the adoption of new agricultural technology has different effects on different types of households and social actors, this study examines how femaleheaded households growing New Rice for Africa (NERICA) upland rice in Hoima District, Uganda, compare with male-headed NERICA grower households with respect to the production, productivity, and marketing of the crop. We show that NERICA has become an important cash income earner for both household categories, which obtain similar levels of productivity, and identify factors that seem to have helped make it accessible to female-headed households: the perception of rice not solely as a commercial crop but also a food crop, a ready local market, and good performance without agro-chemical inputs. In spite of evidence that female-headed households are constrained by inferior access to land and by lower de facto sales price, we argue that NERICA provides opportunities for these households that may contribute toward more equitable production, productivity, and marketing conditions between female-and maleheaded households. [NERICA upland rice,

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New seeds, gender norms and labor dynamics in Hoima District, Uganda

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

Cattle as technological interventions: The gender effects of water demand in dairy production in Uganda

Cattle as technological interventions: The gender effects of water demand in dairy production in Uganda

Of Trackers and Tractors. Using a Smartphone App and Compositional Data Analysis to Explore the Link Between Mechanization and Intra-Household Allocation of Time in Zambia

NERICA Upland Rice: Seeds of Change for Female‐Headed Households in Uganda?

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