Presented by Tamsin Dewé, Barbara Rischkowsky, Kristina Rösel, Delia Grace at the Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013
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Safe Food, Fair Food: Summary of findings on gender-related issues within sheep and goat value chains in Ethiopia
1. Safe Food, Fair Food: Summary of findings
on gender-related issues within sheep and
goat value chains in Ethiopia
Tamsin Dewé, Barbara Rischkowsky, Kristina Rösel, Delia Grace
Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group
Workshop and Planning Meeting
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013
2. Safe Food, Fair Food
Protecting the health of poor consumers
and
Safeguarding livelihoods of poor livestock
keepers and other value chain actors
3. Background
Looking at risks to food safety and
nutrition within sheep and goat value
chains
Trying to identify opportunities for
further research and intervention
Ultimate goal is to ensure adequate
intake of safe and nutritious foods, while
protecting the livelihoods of poor value
chain actors
5. Activities
Rapid assessment conducted at
each site
– Participatory rural appraisals
(PRAs) with producer and
consumer groups
– Focus group discussions (FGDs)
with mothers of young children
Topics included animal health,
consumption patterns, food
preparation, and perceptions of
quality and safety of sheep and
goat meat and milk
6. Results
Food preparation exclusively by women
• Cooking indoors over fire exposes women
and girls to potentially toxic fumes
7. Results
Men are given better meat cuts to give
them strength for work
Preferential feeding of red meat and liver
to pregnant women
– To prevent anemia and nutritional deficiency
Consumption of raw meat and milk also
reported for pregnant women
– Risk to mother and fetus
8. Results
Cultural taboo against women
drinking whole milk in
Abergelle
– Makes women crazy, difficult to
handle
– Early onset of puberty in girls
Women consume butter and
use it as cosmetics
9. Results
Summary of gender-related consumption practices
Site
Abergelle
Amhara
Women
Men preferentially given high-quality cuts
Women do not consume whole milk
Women more likely to consume butter (which is also used externally for
hair and skin)
Abergelle
Tigray
Men preferentially given high-quality cuts
Women do not consume whole milk
Women more likely to consume butter (which is also used externally for
hair and skin)
Pregnant women prefer liver and kidney
Atsbi
Collection of small pieces from each part of the animal given to women for
health
Women use butter for cosmetics
Borena
Doyogena
Horro
Pregnant women prefer red meat and liver
Pregnant women prefer liver or dulet
Either no difference between the genders, or women prefer red meat, liver
and intestines
Menz
Shinelle
Women prefer to avoid fat
Women use butter as cosmetics
Pregnant women prefer sheep and goat milk
10. Results
Division of labor in sheep and goat management, Alaba (SNNP)
Responsibility
Task
Flock herding
Cut-and-carry
grasses/browses
Watering flock
Clean flock barn
Cares for young flock
Fattening management
Treat sick flock
Milk goats
Process goat milk
Sale sheep and goats at
markets
Decide on use of
proceeds
Owner of the flocks
Men
32.1
Women
12.3
Boys
45.8
Girls
8.3
Hired
labor
1.4
29.5
40.3
–
20.6
43.1
85
–
–
33.8
12.4
66
44.9
34.8
1.8
80.4
67.1
25.9
45.6
2.9
26.6
17.2
13.2
–
–
9.5
1.3
31.1
7.9
4.5
–
19.6
32.9
1.3
0.4
–
–
0.4
–
–
–
82.2
5.2
12.6
–
–
73.7
68.2
20.2
29
6.1
2.8
–
–
–
–
Solomon Gizaw, Azage Tegegne, Berhanu Gebremedhin and Dirk Hoekstra. Improving sheep and goat production and
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11. Conclusions
Gender roles may have large influence on
health and nutrition risks
– Further research needed
Low level of consumption of ASF due to
economic constraints and religious
practices
Major risk in this value chain is nutritional
deficiency
– Protein, iron, zinc, vitamins A and B12