Women's food security and conservation farming in Zaka District-Zimbabwe

Hove, Mediel; Gweme, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.10.010

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“…As shown in Table 1, gender was operationalized in two key ways in the papers we reviewed. In the first place gender was viewed as the socially constructed roles, responsibilities and power relations among men and women in relation to agricultural activities studies (Beuchelt & Badstue, 2013;Farnworth & Colverson, 2015;Hove & Gweme, 2018;Kahimba, Mutabazi, Tumbo, Masuki, & Mbungu, 2014;Kristjanson et al, 2017;Murray, Gebremedhin, Brychkova, & Spillane, 2016;Nyanga et al, 2012). However, gender was also conflated with the biological sex of farmers (that is male or female) (Baudron et al, 2009;Brown, Nuberg, & Llewellyn, 2017a;Giller et al, 2009;Makate et al, 2017;Mazvimavi & Twomlow, 2009;Ndiritu, Kassie, & Shiferaw, 2014;Nyanga et al, 2012;Teklewold, Kassie, Shiferaw, & Köhlin, 2013;Yahaya, Pokharel, Alidu, & Yamoah, 2018).…”

Section: Operationalization Of the Term Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Zambia, for example, among women CA farmers, early land preparation facilitated timely planting and early crop maturity, resulting in food availability during periods of food scarcity (Nyanga et al, 2012). Women participating in a CA project in Zimbabwe reported increased grain yields, enhanced household food security, ability to eat three meals a day, greater dietary diversity, and enough food to last them until the next harvest season (Hove & Gweme, 2018). However, increased productivity and incomes due to CA could also lead to the disempowerment and dispossession of women.…”

Section: Ca Gender Food Security and Incomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the same country, CA increased food insecurity levels by introducing crops that were not part of local diets, therefore forcing women to spend more time and resources in finding alternative food materials (Baudron et al, 2009). CA also threatened food security by discouraging the planting of groundnuts and tubers, leading some women to dis-adopt CA for conventional agricultural practices (Hove & Gweme, 2018).…”

Section: Ca Gender Food Security and Incomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The adoption of CA transformed intra-household gender relations, decision-making, crop management practices, and increased agency among some women in Zimbabwe (Hove & Gweme, 2018;Kunzekweguta et al, 2017). In Zaka, Zimbabwe, women reported active involvement in making decisions about which crops to grow, where and when to plant, when to weed, apply fertilizer, and harvest despite such roles being traditionally a male responsibility (Hove & Gweme, 2018). In the study, women's decision making capacities reportedly expanded because of engagement in CA.…”

Section: Ca Gender Relations and Household Decisionmakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender and conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Wekesah

Mutua

Izugbara

2019

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Conservation agriculture (CA) involves the practice of concurrent minimum tillage, permanent soil cover using crop residue, and crop rotation. Evidence indicates that CA increases agricultural productivity, reduces farming labour requirements, and improves soil quality. While CA is practised in several African contexts, little is known about its interaction with gender. This review synthesized knowledge on the interplay of gender and CA in sub-Saharan Africa. The review highlighted the relative neglect of gender issues in research on CA in SSA. Existing research was limited both in quantity and to a few countries in the region. There was also little critical focus on gender as a social phenomenon: a few of the studies conceptualized gender in terms of the socially constructed roles of men and women while the majority framed it in terms of the sexual categories of male and female. Compared to men, and due largely to gendered barriers, including lack of access to land; machinery; inputs; extension services; and credit facilities, women farmers adopted CA less and disadopted it more. CA increased women's incomes, labour involvement, household food security, as well as risks for land and crop dispossession by men when farming becomes lucrative. It also increased workloads, employment opportunities and health risks for women. CA positively altered gender relations, boosting women's participation in agricultural decision-making at the household level. Deliberately enlisting women as beneficiaries; working with men to advance their understanding of women's needs in agriculture; and offering agricultural inputs directly to women are some strategies that enhanced women's participation in CA. Gaps in current research on gender and CA include: critical focus on and understanding of gender as a social construct in relation to CA; the long-term impacts on CA for gender relations, incomes for men and women, and women's empowerment; the sustainability of strategies for supporting gendered participation in CA; and the dynamics of gendered access to local farmland markets for CA.

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Section: Operationalization Of the Term Gendermentioning

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Section: Ca Gender Food Security and Incomesmentioning

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Section: Ca Gender Food Security and Incomesmentioning

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Section: Ca Gender Relations and Household Decisionmakingmentioning

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Gender and conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Wekesah

Mutua

Izugbara

2019

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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“…Research examining CSA and soil and water conservation approaches in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda found that women and femaleheaded households were less likely than men and male-headed households to adopt these practices (Mugonola et al 2013, Ndiritu et al 2014, Murray et al 2016, Asfaw and Neka 2017, Nahayo et al 2017. This disparity was attributed to the greater challenges women face in securing financial capital, labor, and time to invest in these initiatives, as well as the existence of insecure land tenure regimes that discourage investment (Kinkingninhoun-Mêdagbé et al 2008, Pircher et al 2013, Asfaw and Neka 2017, Hove and Gweme 2018. Several studies from Malawi highlight another barrier to adoption of sustainable agricultural practices-gender-differentiated agricultural labor responsibilities.…”

Section: Agricultural Technology Promotionmentioning

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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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Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana

Musah-Surugu,

Anuga

2023

Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change

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Emerging discourses in the field of climate change adaptation finance contend that remittances could complement other sources of financing adaptation given their propensity to reach the most vulnerable in comparison to public expenditure. This notwithstanding, fewer empirical studies have examined this claim. Employing an Order Rank Logit (ORL) and multinomial logit structural decomposition models, this study found that remittances influenced smallholder farmers’ engagement in off-farm jobs, irrigation farming, cultivation of improved crop varieties, use of compost/animal manure, and crop rotation, but inversely predicted Indexed-based Insurance (IBI). The study concludes that remittances are vital in financing climate change adaptation and, if appropriately yoked into climate intervention policies, could strengthen and enable farmers fashion out adaptation strategies that present high-medium to long-term dividends.

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Women's food security and conservation farming in Zaka District-Zimbabwe

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

Gender and conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Gender and conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

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

Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana

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