Gender Sensitive CSA Practices for Coffee Agroforestry in Nicaragua

1. Gender Sensitive CSA Practices for Coffee
Agroforestry in Nicaragua
Tatiana Gumucio1, Jennifer Twyman2
Introduction
Objectives
Preliminary Results
Looking Ahead
Methods
Contact
Photocredits:
María Alejandra García (CIAT)
Strategies to mitigate and adapt to
the impacts of climate change
depend unequivocally on
management of the world’s forests
and tree resources, with critical
implications for the diverse
numerous populations who depend
on these for their livelihoods. A
research lens that takes into account
gender- and age-differentiated ways
of engaging with forest and tree
resources is important for this.
• Analyze the values and uses that
men and women primary
decision-makers, of differing age
groups, give to trees and
tree/food crops within the
agroforestry system.
• Understand the role of men and
women, of differing age groups,
in the decision-making process
on the use and management of
trees and food crops.
• Understand the perceptions of
agroforestry as a land use for
men and women primary
decision-makers, of differing age
groups.
• Develop gender-sensitive
recommendations for CSA
practices related to agroforestry.
Preliminary data from the CCAFS
gender survey in Tuma-La Dalia suggest
that men and women may coincide in
some ways on tree preferences.
1. Tatiana Gumucio
Postdoctoral Fellow, CIAT
t.gumucio@cgiar.org
2. Jennifer Twyman
Social Scientist, CIAT
j.twyman@cgiar.org
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Adoption of CSA Practices
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The study site is the CCAFS Climate-
Smart Village in Tuma-La Dalia,
Nicaragua. It also coincides with the FTA
Nicaragua-Honduras Sentinel
Landscape.
Smallholders in the area engage largely
in shade coffee production.
The research consists of two parts:
1. Analysis of sex-disaggregated data
collected in 2015 through the CCAFS
household gender survey on:
• Agricultural and agroforestry
activities.
• Decision-making.
• Adoption of CSA practices.
2. Collection and analysis of qualitative
data on values and perceptions
related to trees, food crops, and
agroforestry, through:
• Focus groups.
• Semi-structured interviews.
• Transect walks.
Expected outputs include:
• Survey data analysis.
• Gender/age toolkit for research on
CSA and agroforestry.
• Report on gender-sensitive CSA
recommendations for impact
investing.
• Paper on gender/age considerations
for coffee agroforestry system uses
and perceptions, with CSA
implications.
Women, especially those in younger age
groups, may be more prone to adopt
certain CSA practices than men.
CCAFS DATAVERSE
CCAFS DATAVERSE
The aim of the research is to analyze
men’s and women’s values and
perceptions associated with trees and
food crops in agroforestry systems to
support the development of gender-
sensitive CSA practices.
The research will provide gender inputs
for:
• CCAFS project “Mainstreaming CSA
practices in mixed tree/food crop
systems.”
• FTA Sentinel Landscapes.
Cross-CRP Priorities