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Implications of agricultural innovation on gender norms: gender approaches in aquatic agriculture in Bangladesh
Type: Book Chapter
Studies have shown that gender norms and gender relations restrict the innovation capacity of women in aquatic agricultural systems. This article explores the converse question: in what ways do and can aquatic agricultural ...
The impact of gender blindness on social-ecological resilience: The case of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia
Type: Journal Article
The authors studied how the failure to take into account gendered roles in the management of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia can affect the resilience of this social-ecological system. This paper integrates ...
Beyond crops: Towards gender equality in forestry, fisheries, aquaculture, and livestock development
Type: Presentation
The fisheries, aquaculture, forestry, and livestock sectors are critical for sustaining rural livelihoods and achieving global food and nutrition security. Yet each of these sectors embeds important gender and other social ...
Gender norms and agricultural innovation: Insights from six villages in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The ability of development interventions to catalyse and support innovation for—and by— women and men is undermined by lack of specific understanding about how gender norms interact with gender relations and what this means ...
Ethnic women in aquaculture in Nepal
Type: Journal Article
The Women in Aquaculture project was launched in two districts of central Terai in Nepal jointly by AIT (Thailand) and Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (Nepal). The project has trained five groups of about 150 ...
Boosting women’s participation and empowerment in aquaculture: Evidence from Ghana
Type: Presentation
This paper provides empirical evidence on the processes and strategies of encouraging women's entrepreneurship and the impact of women's entrepreneurship on their empowerment in the context of emerging aquaculture value ...
Framework Report for incorporating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) elements in Climate Information Services (CIS)
Type: Internal Report
Climate Information Services have an opportunity to increase smallholder farmers' resilience against climate change and climate variability whilst enhancing their livelihoods. The AICCRA Zambia project through the agricultural ...
Diversification of aquaculture for empowerment to fisheries through institution village linkage programme (IVLP) in Kerala, India
Type: Journal Article
Technology Assessment and Refinement through the Institution Village Linkage Programme (IVLP) is the latest participatory extension model successfully undertaken by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in India. The ...
Gender and the Political Economy of Fish Agri-food Systems in the Global South
Type: Book Chapter
The significance of fish for human nutrition, health, and livelihoods is increasingly recognized by and for people around the world, especially in the Global South. However, fisheries and aquaculture do not equally benefit ...
Gender norms and relations: implications for agency in coastal livelihoods
Type: Journal Article
Improving livelihoods and livelihood opportunities is a popular thrust of development investments. Gender and other forms of social differentiation influence individual agency to access, participate in, and benefit from ...