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Gender and household decision-making in a Lao Village: implications for livelihoods in hydropower development
Type: Journal Article
Hydropower development with concomitant changes in water and land regimes often results in livelihood transformation of affected people, entailing changes in intra-household decision-making upon which livelihood strategies ...
Inclusive ecosystems? Women's participation in the aquatic ecosystem of Lake Malawi
Type: Journal Article
Ecosystem services and their role in alleviating poverty are centered on a set of gendered social relations. The understanding of these relations between men and women in aquatic ecosystems can unveil gender-based opportunities ...
The 'Fish Trader+' model: reducing female traders' vulnerability to HIV
Type: Journal Article
Analysis from research and practice in Africa shows that fishing communities are hardly reached by HIV-related services, education, and business services, partly because of the efforts and costs involved and a lack of good ...
Gender and marine protected areas: a case study of Danajon Bank, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
In this paper, we examine the role of gender in community-based management of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Central Philippines. MPAs are a common conservation and fisheries management tool in this area, but the ...
School holidays: examining childhood, gender norms, and kinship in childrens shorter-term residential mobility in urban Zambia
Type: Journal Article
This article discusses a practice of child residential mobility in Zambia that is frequently overlooked in migration studies and difficult to capture through standard survey methods: the practice of going on holiday to the ...
Gender integration in livestock and fisheries value chains: emerging good practices from analysis to action
Type: Journal Article
It is widely recognized that women are significant actors in crop-livestock, pastoralist and fish systems. However, too little is known about agricultural development projects which deliberately work towards Gender in ...
A synthesis of convergent reflections, tensions and silences in linking gender and global environmental change research
Type: Journal Article
This synthesis article joins the authors of the special issue "Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change" in a common reflective dialogue about the main contributions ...
Women's traditional fishery and alternative aquatic resource livelihood strategies in the Southern Cameroonian Rainforest
Type: Journal Article
To inform the development of alternative livelihoods, the women's traditional alok fishery in the Campo-Ma'an National Park and buffer zone of southern Cameroon were studied over 15 months. Participatory rural appraisal ...
Gender relations and improved technologies in small household ponds in Bangladesh: Rolling out novel learning approaches
Type: Journal Article
Gender-transformative engagement in the management of household ponds in Bangladesh for improved fish production relies on working with the complexities of gender relations in combination with a readiness by formally-trained ...
Postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations: drivers of the social-ecological trap in the Barotse Floodplain fishery, Zambia
Type: Journal Article
The Barotse Floodplain fishery is an important source of livelihood for economically poor women and men in western Zambia. Current efforts by the Department of Fisheries and the traditional authority to manage the fishery ...