Socio-economic impacts of the Women in Aquaculture (WiA) project in Nepal

Farquhar, Samantha; Khanal, Nisha; Shrestha, Madhav Kumar; Farthing, MW; Bhujel, Ram C.

doi:10.1016/j.kjss.2017.12.014

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“…In Ukerewe island of Lake Victoria, Luomba (2013), for example, indicated that women were involved in many different activities related to pond farming including pond construction, fingerlings sorting, pond stocking, feeding, sex identification, and fish harvesting. Example of similar findings from outside Tanzania includes those by Ahmed, Halim, and Shamima (2012) in Bangladesh and Farquhar, Khanal, Shrestha, Farthin, and Bhujel (2019) in Nepal.…”

Section: Utilization Pattern Of the Cultured Fishmentioning

confidence: 63%

Rural aquaculture: Assessment of its contribution to household income and farmers’ perception in selected districts, Tanzania

Mulokozi

Mmanda

Onyango

et al. 2020

Aquaculture Economics & Management

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Rural fish farming is being promoted as a good source of protein and income diversification to fight poverty and inequality. However, its actual contribution to these rural households and local community at large is little known. Through interviews with 89 farmers' and 6 key informants, we examined the contribution of rural fish farming to local farmers' household income and investigate farmers' perceptions, opportunities, and constraints towards fish farming in six districts of Tanzania. Results indicated that fish farming contributed on average 13% to household incomes and that it explained 5% of the variation of the household income while 84% of the variation was due to non-fish sources. The majority (79%) of the farmers wanted to continue with fish farming, 9% planned to quit, and 12% had not decided whether to continue or not. Conclusively, much higher aquaculture contribution towards rural development could be obtained if appropriate measures are taken.

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Section: Utilization Pattern Of the Cultured Fishmentioning

confidence: 63%

Rural aquaculture: Assessment of its contribution to household income and farmers’ perception in selected districts, Tanzania

Mulokozi

Mmanda

Onyango

et al. 2020

Aquaculture Economics & Management

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“…The study also tries to identify the level of acceptance of cooperatives by the society, the negative and positive impacts of the contribution of socio-economic development in the country and the relation of cooperatives to livelihood and business management practices (Farquhar et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recently even, nations in the developing world put great efforts expanding co-operative, thinking that, it was hoped, would bring the benefits of development to the rural poor (Simmons and Birchall 2008). This was also evident in the practices of Malysia, and the co-operative movement has had an impact on the Malaysian economic development (Othman and Kari 2008) With regard to the socio-economic impact (Smith and Rothbaum, 2013) examined potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: unemployment, inequality, educational mobility, and innovation revealing how cooperatives can generate employment, especially in times of economic crisis (Farquhar et al 2018;Gonzalez-Garcia et al 2018). They have also indicated that the comparative advantages that cooperatives and cooperative unions have in generating innovation and how they can help empower women and foster economic development.…”

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The Role of Cooperatives on the Socio-economic Development of Ethiopia

Berhan

Gebeyehu

2018

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This paper presents the role of cooperatives on the socio-economic development of Ethiopia. It is based on a national survey where 173 cooperatives and 831 cooperatives members were taken as a sample and Focused Group Discussions (FGDs) at eight different regions of the country were considered. The study was based on semi-structured questionnaire. It included a period of ten years (2001-2011).Results of the survey reveal that cooperatives have contributed a lot in the country’s economic development besides supporting their members by providing different products, services, as well as variety of benefits such as securing their food, increasing their income, improving life style and social participation, and inputs for their agriculture activities. Moreover, on the average cooperatives support nearly 15.00 to 29.68 descent jobs and spent 28,032.29 up to 122,297.7birr as wage and salary per cooperative per year. The average contribution of cooperatives to the Ethiopian GDP for the last ten years is found to be relatively less which ranges 1.21% to 12.27%. The overall findings showed that, cooperatives have struggled to impact the socio-economic development of the country and support their members to improve their livelihood with the unpaved economy and policy of the country.

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“…While in the case of agriculture, the limitation for many women may be access to information, for aquaculture, the barrier to entry is often the cost of establishing an aquaculture pond. As such, research from India and Nepal has demonstrated that interventions that subsidize adoption of aquaculture improve income and employment gains for women, reducing inequity (Bhujel et al 2008, Panda et al 2012, Rai et al 2014, Farquhar et al 2018. As gender is often correlated with other disparities, successful interventions and policies often use creative strategies for identifying and addressing address multiple deficits, including gaps in knowledge and resources.…”

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How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?

Call

Sellers

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Background. Though many studies have long considered the broad social implications of climate change, researchers have only recently started to consider the gendered unevenness of the global landscape of vulnerability, exposure, and adaptive capacity to environmental stressors and shocks. Historically, policies and interventions addressing natural resource-based livelihoods have rarely considered underlying gender dynamics despite the global pervasiveness of gendered disparities in both economic opportunities and welfare outcomes. Methods/Design. Using two electronic databases, Web of Science and Scopus, we conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed academic literature describing livelihoods policies or interventions that included documentation of gendered impacts. We focused on natural resource-based livelihoods most likely to be affected by climate change, centering on interventions targeting agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, and forestry. Review Results/ Synthesis. We identified 131 relevant articles, most of which focus on adoption or participation in interventions rather than outcomes. In general, women are less likely than men to engage with sustainable livelihoods interventions. When women do engage, some researchers have documented income and food security gains as well as improvements in environmental indicators in the shortterm. However, these initiatives have also been found to increase women's labor burden without corresponding gains in income. Few studies measure longer-term effects of women's engagement on welfare and environmental outcomes, a key gap in the literature. Additionally, relatively few studies explore the intersectional impacts of initiatives, such as the added burdens of ethnicity, class, education, or other differences that modify gender disparities. Discussion. Climate change has gendered impacts on natural resource-based livelihoods. In general, existing initiatives designed to increase livelihood resilience fail to reduce gender disparities and improve women's livelihoods. Greater attention should be paid to gender when designing sustainable livelihoods policies and interventions in order to increase adoption and participation, negotiate trade-offs, improve environmental conditions, and promote broadly beneficial welfare outcomes.

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Socio-economic impacts of the Women in Aquaculture (WiA) project in Nepal

Cited by 11 publications

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Rural aquaculture: Assessment of its contribution to household income and farmers’ perception in selected districts, Tanzania

Rural aquaculture: Assessment of its contribution to household income and farmers’ perception in selected districts, Tanzania

The Role of Cooperatives on the Socio-economic Development of Ethiopia

How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?

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