gender matters in agroforestry in dry and degraded lands
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Key highlights
Gender matters: trees, forests, agroforestry.
Tenure and access rights demands attention.
Dryland agroforestry our future priority.
For example: India, Gran Chaco and Sahel region
Gender equity
Gender equity includes
race, ethnicity, language, socio-economic status, disability orany other diversities
that defines our individualidentity.
Empirical evidence on..
¿ What does agroforestry in dry and degraded lands mean for smallholders?
¿ Why gender equity in agroforestry matters?
¿ How local democratic governance influence gender in agroforestry?
Research Area: semi-arid
tribal India
Dryland agroforestry: viable option
Tenure insecurity; small holders (2acres)
Climate variability; seasonal migration
Planting trees a way to claim boundary
Gender equity: tenure and access
245 hh: 85% women lack tenure rights
Elder women have more access to fruit trees, fodder shrubs, and fuel wood
Rules on access to resources changes during crisis or opportunity
- Climate variability
- Value chain (processed fruits; jatropha)
Decision-making in agroforestryRoles and responsibilities Men/Women/ Joint Vulnerability
Managing fodder shrubs 55% joint32% women
women lead in managing shrubs in consultation
Soil fertility improvements 68% joint and 20% men Women lack of knowledge
Fuel wood management 65% women and 21% men Selection of species and management by women
Fruits and crop production 67% joint and 26% men Frequent drought and market fluctuation = joint
Vegetable garden 72% women Daily livelihood food security & men migration
Fencing 35% joint 30% men Depend on tenure rights;exclusion of pastoralists
Sale and marketing 45% joint New arena for both
Information sharing 67% women Social safety net
Capacity-building on agrofo 43% men Migration = women active
Technological adaptation 66% men Men are targeted
Political participation
• At democratic local governance women are passive participants though the ‘quota’ give them 35% political space. Elite women are active.
• At household level, in crisis situation, men and women play critical role in agroforestrymanagement.
• Women are active in negotiating marketing deals.
Discussion
• Smallholders income increase (men benefit)
• Gendered risk- when value of product increases men takeover business from women
• Agroforestry has high potential when men and women are involved in technological adaptation, marketing and benefit-sharing.
Thank you
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CIAT’s focal contact for gender as a cross-cutting theme for Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry
Conceptual framework
- Identity and Recognition
Fraser (2000): Forms of identity are constructed through interaction of self-identity (individual adopts to get recognition), and external identity (reinforced by dominant group)
and
- Decision making and Gender equity