This document summarizes a workshop on enhancing women's assets to manage risk under climate change through potential group-based approaches. It notes that while climate change's impacts on food security and poverty are recognized, claims that women are disproportionately affected lack evidence. Previous research found that focusing on assets and collective action could help adaptation. The workshop aimed to address this research gap from a gender perspective.
The presentation "Gender issues in Jamaica and the OECS" by Tonni Brodber, UN Women, delivered at the Climate Change and Gender Focal Points Workshop in Jamaica in September 2018.
Integrating gender considerations in Jamaica’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP)...NAP Global Network
The presentation "Integrating gender considerations in Jamaica’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process ", day 1 recap, by Angie Dazé , associate with IISD Resilience and NAP Global Network, delivered at the Climate Change and Gender Focal Points Workshop in Jamaica in September 2018.
Presentation held by Mark Purdon, PhD, during the Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems Brussels Workshop 9-11 Sept 2014. Workshop held by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagship 4.
Presentation held by Livia Bizikova during the Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems Brussels Workshop 9-11 Sept 2014. Workshop held by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagship 4.
Rhiannon Pyburn, Anouka van Eerdewij, Vivian Polar, Iliana Monterroso Ibarra and Cynthia McDougall
BOOK LAUNCH
Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future
Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
NOV 23, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:15 AM EST
The presentation "Gender issues in Jamaica and the OECS" by Tonni Brodber, UN Women, delivered at the Climate Change and Gender Focal Points Workshop in Jamaica in September 2018.
Integrating gender considerations in Jamaica’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP)...NAP Global Network
The presentation "Integrating gender considerations in Jamaica’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process ", day 1 recap, by Angie Dazé , associate with IISD Resilience and NAP Global Network, delivered at the Climate Change and Gender Focal Points Workshop in Jamaica in September 2018.
Presentation held by Mark Purdon, PhD, during the Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems Brussels Workshop 9-11 Sept 2014. Workshop held by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagship 4.
Presentation held by Livia Bizikova during the Governance & Institutions Across Scales in Climate Resilient Food Systems Brussels Workshop 9-11 Sept 2014. Workshop held by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Flagship 4.
Rhiannon Pyburn, Anouka van Eerdewij, Vivian Polar, Iliana Monterroso Ibarra and Cynthia McDougall
BOOK LAUNCH
Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future
Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
NOV 23, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:15 AM EST
Tenure Security and Landscape Governance of Natural ResourcesIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on December 7, 2021. For more information and the recording of the webinar, and to access the briefs, visit https://bit.ly/3xZDBs6
Indicators of gendered control over agricultural resourcesCGIAR
This was the 4th in a series of webinars developed by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network. This webinar was based on a recently released working paper. It was presented by Smriti Rao who prepared the working paper and moderated by Cheryl Doss from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets.
Gender dynamics in value chains: Beyond production node and a single commodit...IFPRI-PIM
1st webinar in the series summarizing results of the Gender Dynamics in Value Chain project, supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in 2019-2021. More information: https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
Collecting sex disaggregated agricultural data through surveys IFPRI-PIM
Presentation for the webinar on Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys that took place on April 21, 2016. Learn more about the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1SkWcSx
PIM Gender team members Cheryl Doss and Caitlin Kieran invited participants to discuss how the "Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis" drafted by PIM in 2014 have been used to date, with a specific focus on lessons learned by CGIAR centers and external partners.
The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Improving evidence on the impact of agricultural research and extension: Refl...africa-rising
Presented by David J. Spielman, Patrick Ward and Simrin Makhija (IFPRI) at the Africa RISING Monitoring and Evaluation Meeting, Arusha, Tanzania, 13-14 November 2014
Molly Anderson: Co-creation of Sustainable FuturesSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
This poster was presented by Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (CIFOR) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Sustainable Development, relationships, norms, values, and hierarchies, Gradual change, Reduction of natural resources
Food, water and energy shortages, Loss of biodiversity
The pressure of accelerating urbanization and population growth, Climate change and natural disasters
Climate change and women (water, food security and poverty)Carmen Capriles
Women and Climate Change; Water, Food Security and Poverty (English) Presenter: Carmen Capriles
Nov. 28, 2010, Annually since 2005, the youth will come together and organise a Conference Of Youth (COY) prior to the actual UNFCCC COP/MOP negotiation session to bring together young people all over the world on the same page for more effective efforts at these official UN sessions. COY is where like minded young people learn, strategise and… network together for solutions on the climate problem the world is facing.
This year, we are taking it to the next level, harnessing on the age of technology to bring the spirit of Youth Efforts to the larger community, especially those who are interested but are not able to make it to the negotiations or COY.
Tenure Security and Landscape Governance of Natural ResourcesIFPRI-PIM
PIM Webinar recorded on December 7, 2021. For more information and the recording of the webinar, and to access the briefs, visit https://bit.ly/3xZDBs6
Indicators of gendered control over agricultural resourcesCGIAR
This was the 4th in a series of webinars developed by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network. This webinar was based on a recently released working paper. It was presented by Smriti Rao who prepared the working paper and moderated by Cheryl Doss from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets.
Gender dynamics in value chains: Beyond production node and a single commodit...IFPRI-PIM
1st webinar in the series summarizing results of the Gender Dynamics in Value Chain project, supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in 2019-2021. More information: https://bit.ly/GDVCweb
Collecting sex disaggregated agricultural data through surveys IFPRI-PIM
Presentation for the webinar on Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys that took place on April 21, 2016. Learn more about the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1SkWcSx
PIM Gender team members Cheryl Doss and Caitlin Kieran invited participants to discuss how the "Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis" drafted by PIM in 2014 have been used to date, with a specific focus on lessons learned by CGIAR centers and external partners.
The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Improving evidence on the impact of agricultural research and extension: Refl...africa-rising
Presented by David J. Spielman, Patrick Ward and Simrin Makhija (IFPRI) at the Africa RISING Monitoring and Evaluation Meeting, Arusha, Tanzania, 13-14 November 2014
Molly Anderson: Co-creation of Sustainable FuturesSTEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
This poster was presented by Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (CIFOR) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Sustainable Development, relationships, norms, values, and hierarchies, Gradual change, Reduction of natural resources
Food, water and energy shortages, Loss of biodiversity
The pressure of accelerating urbanization and population growth, Climate change and natural disasters
Climate change and women (water, food security and poverty)Carmen Capriles
Women and Climate Change; Water, Food Security and Poverty (English) Presenter: Carmen Capriles
Nov. 28, 2010, Annually since 2005, the youth will come together and organise a Conference Of Youth (COY) prior to the actual UNFCCC COP/MOP negotiation session to bring together young people all over the world on the same page for more effective efforts at these official UN sessions. COY is where like minded young people learn, strategise and… network together for solutions on the climate problem the world is facing.
This year, we are taking it to the next level, harnessing on the age of technology to bring the spirit of Youth Efforts to the larger community, especially those who are interested but are not able to make it to the negotiations or COY.
Women`s Leadership For Climate Action in View of the Gathering and the Paris ...Carmen Capriles
Why is it so important to talk about women when we talk about climate change? Why we need climate policies that acknoledge women rights and gender equality? Women are the ones that are taking the lead on the front lines, and Paris was a great example of this..
This presentation examines global public opinion about climate change. Using the Pew Research Center’s spring 2015 Global Attitudes survey, issues such as concern about climate change and support for action on climate change are addressed. It is based on 45,435 face-to-face and telephone interviews in 40 countries with adults 18 and older conducted from March 25 to May 27, 2015.
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
Patti Kristjanson, leader of the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security theme on Linking Knowledge with Action, presented CCAFS' Intermediate Development Outcome on gender at an International Fund for Agricultural Development East and Southern Africa regional Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Forum, 16-18 October 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series Dr Irene Guijt, Head of Research at Oxfam GB, delivered a lecture entitled: Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy in Oxfam
When using evidence to influence, what compromises have to be made in different contexts due to practical, political and strategic reasons?
Dr Guijt presents on challenges and successes, using examples of Oxfam research and campaign strategies from across the world.
WP2: Feasibility analyses and development of ‘best practice’ criteriaForest Research
Social Science: Mariella Marzano & Mike Dunn
Economics: Gregory Valatin& Colin Price
Nursery engagement: Tim Pettitt
Plant health researchers: Alexandra Schlenzig, Jane Barbrook & Ana Pérez-Sierra
Outcome of the online consultation of USAID, Aligning Research Investments to...Francois Stepman
18-20 April 2017. Aligning Research Investments to the Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS): A Three-Day AgExchange on Nutrition, Resilience and Agriculture-Led Economic Growth
Over 400 development and research professionals in more than 30 countries followed and/or contributed to the discussion on research investments in resilience, nutrition, and agriculture-led economic growth. A team of experts is currently carefully reviewing each and every comment to inform the drafting of the GFSS research strategy.
Socioeconomic considerations, biosafety and decision making: The view of a pr...Jose Falck Zepeda
"Socioeconomic considerations, biosafety and decision making: The view of a practitioner” is a presentation I made at the Michigan State University 2013 short course on environmental biosafety, August 8 2013. The focus is on socioeconomic considerations, biosafety and decision making highlighting issues, options and approaches to such inclusion from a developing country perspective.
Rhiannon Pyburn, Illiana Monterroso, Hazel Malapit, Katrina Kosec, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jennifer Twyman, and Dina Najjar
POLICY SEMINAR
Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research
Co-Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets and IFPRI
OCT 30, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
Governance & integrated thinking….through a responsible investor lens: The ch...Dr Raj Thamotheram
This presentation identifies that academic/practitioner collaboration could be the catalyst for a more integrated approach to governance and how this could address the failure of traditional corporate governance thinking to deliver value even its narrow frame of reference, leave aside taking account of wider mega-trends. The presentation also considers what academics can do differently to realise this potential.
Lecture: Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change, Jennifer Twyman, CIATCIAT
A lecture on Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change, given by Dr. Jennifer Twyman (Gender specialist at CIAT) for the MSc program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway
This presentation describes the Sustainability, the contemporary issues existing around it, and approaches to resolve those issues. This presentation also provides some of the relevant case studies in this regard. Overall, a good starting point for someone who wants to know more about sustainability.
Gender research in the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture ...CGIAR
This poster was presented by Sophia Huyer (CCAFS), as part of the Gender Research Coordinators' meeting (4 December 2017), related to Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
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Improving women’s empowerment survey questions for agricultural value chains:...IFPRI Gender
Monitoring progress toward women’s empowerment requires tools that reflect the underlying concepts that we aim to measure. Cognitive interviewing is a qualitative approach for identifying sources of error in how respondents interpret and formulate responses to surveys. This study aims to identify sources of error in new and existing survey modules included in the WEAI4VC survey to inform survey development. Of the ten modules cognitively interviewed, comprehension errors were found in nine modules, response errors were found in two, and judgement errors in one. Revisions to the questions and survey modules will help better capture respondent’s lived experiences and realities.
Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative researchIFPRI Gender
Overview of qualitative findings from the GAAP2 project and how they relate to the development of the quantitative pro-WEAI survey and how they illuminate quantitative pro-WEAI findings
Understanding Empowerment among Retailers in the Informal Milk Sector in Peri...IFPRI Gender
Developing measures of empowerment is critical for monitoring progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment. We used formative qualitative research to understand empowerment among traders in the informal milk sector in peri-urban Nairobi and adapt the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). We conducted 6 single-sex focus group discussions, 48 in-depth individual interviews, 4 key informant interviews with current and former milk traders. Interviews were translated, transcribed, and thematically coded using deductive and inductive codes. Emic perceptions of empowerment among milk trader emphasized business success and supporting families and communities. Gender-specific markers of empowerment often aligned with traditional gender norms. Only low-value assets are needed to enter the sector, though a lack of large assets limits business growth, especially for women. Obtaining government licenses is sometimes challenging, and licenses help vendors maintain control over assets as authorities may seize them when vendors are found selling without a license. Small-scale credit is common, but access to large-scale credit is difficult to obtain for women, limiting the growth of women’s milk businesses. Business and household incomes are maintained separately, which helps women maintain control of their income. Married women (compared to single women) face more difficulty maintaining control of their income. Participation in savings and credit groups is common and facilitates acquisition of low-value assets. Membership in dairy trader groups, however, is uncommon especially among women, and low involvement in these groups may limit traders’ potential for collective action. We discuss how we use these findings to adapt the pro-WEAI.
IFPRI Gender Breakfast with CARE and WorldFish: Measuring Gender-Transformati...IFPRI Gender
Measuring Gender-Transformative Change in Agriculture: A review of the literature and promising practices
February 16, 2017
Presenters: Steven Cole, Cynthia McDougall, & Afrina Choudhury from WorldFish & the FISH CGIAR Research Program; Emily Hilenbrand & Pranati Mohanraj from CARE USA
Discussant: Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)
Gender inequalities are recognized as both a major driver of poverty and an impediment to agricultural development. Understanding complex processes of social change remains a critical challenge for effective agricultural development programming that advances gender equality. Gender transformative approaches represent a move beyond “business as usual” gender integration in programming towards the creation of an enabling social environment and more equitable formal and informal institutions that expand life choices for women and men.
At the heart of their work, WorldFish (in particular, through its FISH and Aquatic Agricultural Systems cross-cutting research program) and CARE USA (through its global Pathways to Empowerment agriculture program) strive to apply gender transformative approaches (GTA) in designing, implementing, and learning from agricultural development interventions. However, committing to GTA implementation approaches also requires a transformation of measurements and indicators of change, an area of research that remains relatively under-developed in the agriculture sector.
In this webinar, CARE and WorldFish Center jointly present a literature review of promising indicators and tools for measuring gender-transformative change in agriculture, along with some practical case studies and the implications of applying such approaches in practice.
[IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar] Liquid milk: Cash Constraints and the Timing o...IFPRI Gender
Gender Methods Seminar, Dec 13, 2016
Berber Kramer, Research Fellow, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (IFPRI)
Abstract:
This paper analyzes implications of cash constraints for collective marketing, using the case of the Kenyan dairy sector. Collective marketing through for instance cooperatives can improve smallholder farmer income but relies on informal, non-enforceable agreements to sell outputs collectively. Sideselling of output in the local market occurs frequently and is typically attributed to price differences between the market and cooperative. This paper provides an alternative explanation, namely that farmers sell in the local market when they are cash-constrained, since cooperatives defer payments while buyers in local markets pay cash immediately. Building on semi-parametric estimation techniques for panel data, we find robust evidence of this theory. High-frequency high-detail panel data show that farmers sell more in the local market, in particular to buyers who pay cash immediately, in weeks with low cash at hand. Moreover, households cope with health shocks by selling more milk in the local market and less to the cooperative, but only in weeks they are not covered by health insurance. Effects are concentrated among female dairy farmers. For them, increased flexibility in payment and the provision of insurance through agricultural cooperatives can potentially reduce side-selling and improve the performance of collective marketing arrangements.
Screencast available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d48bte3yzsd5iwz/2016-12-13%2012.03%2012_13%2C%207AB%2C%2012-1pm%2C%20Gender%20Methods%20Seminar%20with%20Berber%20Kramer%20.wmv?dl=0
Gender, Agriculture, and Environment: From "Zombie Facts" to EvidenceIFPRI Gender
Four "zombie myths" continue to haunt us in the field of gender and agriculture. This presentation looks at the evidence on the feminization of poverty, women's contributions to agriculture, land ownership, and role as environmentalists. Presented by Ruth Meinzen-Dick at Penn State University, June 2016.
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[IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar] Gender and Collective Lands: Good practices an...IFPRI Gender
Presentation by Elisa Scalise and Renee Giovarelli
Co-founders of Resource Equity
Global awareness of two land tenure issues--the importance of recognizing and promoting land rights for women and the problem of insecure collective land and resource tenure rights--is rising. The importance of managing collectively held land, both for those who use it and for the environment, has grown increasingly clear. In fact, studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under collective tenure—customary, community-based tenure systems. Securing that tenure is important for protecting the rights of those communities, and has been shown to improve resource management.
However, efforts to secure community land tenure, generally through documenting and registering rights, are still new. In particular, to date, the conversation around securing collective rights to land has paid little attention to women’s rights, and the effects of formalizing the rights of the collective on women are not well studied. Focusing on securing collective land and resource rights without considering gender differences within communities has the potential to severely disadvantage women who are very often socially, economically, and politically excluded.
This report on gender issues and best practices in collective land tenure projects seeks to begin filling this gap, by taking a detailed look at how six collective tenure land projects addressed gender differences. The six case studies include projects in China, Ghana, India, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, and Peru. The case studies are program assessments focusing primarily on how each project approached gender, what the gender-differentiated impacts have been in terms of project participation and benefits, and what lessons can be learned and best practices can be drawn from these projects.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rraj5rz8kip9t70/2016-03-14%2012.01%203_14%2012pm-1pm%20Room%208A%20Gender%20Methods%20Seminar%20with%20Resource%20Equity%20.mp4?dl=0
Building a WEAI for project use: Overview of GAAP2 for pro-WEAIIFPRI Gender
An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) titled Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation, Nancy Johnson of IFPRI discusses how the project level WEAI (pro-WEAI) will be constructed in GAAP2 and talks about the structure of GAAP2 and the different components of the project.
What's measured, matters: Lessons from the WEAI - GAAP2 Inception WorkshopIFPRI Gender
An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) titled Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation, Agnes Quisumbing of IFPRI introduces the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). The presentation covers the scope of the WEAI, its relevance, the indicators that make up the index, its uses and its criticisms.
The Abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI) - GAAP2 Inception WorkshopIFPRI Gender
An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2): Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation Hazel Malapit of IFPRI introduces the Abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI).
Gender differences in awareness and adoption of climate-smart agricultural pr...IFPRI Gender
Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI
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Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0
How female (and male) farmers are changing their practices in the face of cha...IFPRI Gender
Patti Kristjanson, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), at IFPRI, January 2016
Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0
Gender and climate change introduction (Elizabeth Bryan)IFPRI Gender
Overview of IFPRI projects, research questions, and conceptual framework (Elizabeth Bryan)
Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0
Empowerment and agricultural production: Evidence from the WEAI in NigerIFPRI Gender
Abstract:
This paper reports on the WEAI collected for male and female adults in 500 households in the Tahoua region in Niger. Rural households in Niger remain heavily dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. Women play a critical and potentially transformative role in agricultural and rural sector growth but face persistent constraints especially when venturing beyond the cultivation of subsistence crops. Our data reveal that men are more empowered compared to women in all but two domains (autonomy and leisure). This discrepancy in empowerment stems primarily from unequal access to assets, including land, and the difficulties women face in speaking in front of a mixed audience. For both men and women, limited group membership strongly contributes to disempowerment. These findings suggest that increased empowerment could contribute to income diversification if access to credit for women could be enhanced. One way to do this – and further increase empowerment – would be to reactivate the existing institutional infrastructure of producer groups or rotating savings schemes (ROSCAS).
This work was funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in the context of a collaborative agreement with IFPRI to conduct a Trade, Gender Equality and Enterprise Growth Analysis to guide MCC investments in Niger.
Presenter’s Bio:
Fleur joined IFPRI in September 2007. She holds a PhD in Development Economics from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her research mainly takes a micro-economic approach and focuses on households in rural West Africa. She has worked extensively on empirically linking migration and agricultural production. As a postdoctoral fellow in IFPRI's West and Central Africa Office she has given analytical support on a per-country basis for the implementation of CAADP (Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program). As a research fellow, she has worked on analyzing the linkages between agriculture, health and education to identify priorities for public investment in rural areas of Burkina Faso. Fleur is currently based in IFPRI’s Kampala office and mainly working on smallholder value chain integration through rural producer organizations.
Elizabeth Bryan: Linkages between irrigation nutrition health and genderIFPRI Gender
A4NH and Gender Task Force seminar on Gender, Agriculture, and Health: Tracing the Links
Screencast recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zer79kc0vnsrsgy/2015-10-20%2009.31%2010_20%20A4NH_IFPRI%20Gender%20Task%20Force%20Seminar_%20Gender%2C%20agriculture%2C%20and%20health.mp4?dl=0
How can we take into account health in our agriculture, nutrition, and gender research? Health and nutrition are closely interrelated: health status influences nutritional outcomes, by mediating a person’s ability to utilize nutrients and lead a healthy life, and nutritional status influences health, by mediating a person’s vulnerability to various illnesses. Both health and nutrition are directly and indirectly affected by rural livelihood decisions related to agriculture, livestock, and water management. Livelihood decisions and duties are gendered, in that social identity influences an individual’s options and choices. Men and women’s exposure to health risks, capacity to provide health care, and access to health services often vary due to these differing roles and rights.
This seminar provides three case studies in how gender dynamics in rural livelihoods influence health, and in turn, nutrition. Intended as an introduction to topics in gender, health, and agriculture, the seminar will help researchers familiar with the agriculture-to-nutrition pathways begin to think about how health has bearings on this framework.
In the seminar, Kelly Jones will present on recent research that traces how livelihood shocks may increase HIV transmission through higher-risk sex, especially for women. Elizabeth Bryan will share early-stage research on the links between small-scale irrigation adoption, gender, and health and nutrition outcomes. Delia Grace will introduce a gender-sensitive participatory risk assessment framework for addressing food safety.
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Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
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Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
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RFP for Reno's Community Assistance CenterThis Is Reno
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About Potato, The scientific name of the plant is Solanum tuberosum (L).Christina Parmionova
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile
Synopsis (short abstract) In December 2023, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 30 May as the International Day of Potato.
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Gender and Climate Change Intro Presentation - Dhaka Gender Workshop
1. Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage
Risk under Climate Change: Potential
for Group-Based Approaches
Workshop on “Gender and Agriculture: A Focus on Bangladesh”
Lakeshore Hotel, Gulshan, Dhaka
June 18, 2014
http://womenandclimate.ifpri.info/
This work is supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
under the project ‘‘Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for
Group–Based Approaches,’’ and forms part of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies Institutions and
Markets (PIM).
2. Background
• Role of climate change for food security and
poverty reduction recognized
– Increasing international research efforts on the topic
• “Gender and climate change”
– Increasingly recognized as important concern
– Frequent claims that women are disproportionately
affected by climate change, but
• limited evidence base and lack of understanding of WHY that
is the case
– Hence: Limited basis for sound policy
recommendations
• Insights from previous research
– Climate change adaptation as risk management
• Need to focus on role of assets and collective action
• Research gap: Gender perspective
3. Background
• Role of climate change for food security and
poverty reduction recognized
– Increasing international research efforts on the topic
• “Gender and climate change”
– Increasingly recognized as important concern
– Frequent claims that women are disproportionately
affected by climate change, but
• limited evidence base and lack of understanding of WHY that
is the case
– Hence: Limited basis for sound policy
recommendations
• Insights from previous research
– Climate change adaptation as risk management
• Need to focus on role of assets and collective action
• Research gap: Gender perspective
4. Background
• Role of climate change for food security and
poverty reduction recognized
– Increasing international research efforts on the topic
• “Gender and climate change”
– Increasingly recognized as important concern
– Frequent claims that women are disproportionately
affected by climate change, but
• limited evidence base and lack of understanding of WHY that
is the case
– Hence: Limited basis for sound policy
recommendations
• Insights from previous research
– Climate change adaptation as risk management
• Need to focus on role of assets and collective action
• Research gap: Gender perspective
5. Background
• Role of climate change for food security and
poverty reduction recognized
– Increasing international research efforts on the topic
• “Gender and climate change”
– Increasingly recognized as important concern
– Frequent claims that women are disproportionately
affected by climate change, but
• limited evidence base and lack of understanding of WHY that
is the case
– Hence: Limited basis for sound policy
recommendations
• Insights from previous research
– Climate change adaptation as risk management
• Need to focus on role of assets and collective action
• Research gap: Gender perspective
6. Bangladesh: Network Structure
• Network highly
centralized
• Several different
core actors: the
most important of
which are UNDP,
Min. of Food and
Disaster
Management
(MoFDM), and Min.
of Envir. and
Forests (MOEF)
• Two distinct
clusters: one
dominated by
research orgs, the
other by donors,
multilaterals, and
govt actors
Government
Local Government
Donor/Multi-lateral
NGO
Research
Target Group
Advice
Funding
7. Bangladesh: Target Groups
• Target groups directly
engaged with farmers
and fishers on climate
change adaptation:
BCAS, CARE, BRAC,
and Practical Action
8. Bangladesh: Influence
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Influence
• MoFDM,’s Comprehensive
Disaster Management
Programme (CDMP) coordinates
adaptation activities
• MoA through the Department of
Agricultural Extension (DAE)—is
influential due to direct ties with
farmers (advice and support)
• Two key government bodies—
LGED and BWDB—support
climate change adaptation
through the development of
infrastructure and management
of water resources, although
governance issues are a concern
9. Conclusions from NetMap exercise
• Govt is serious about addressing climate
change (e.g. establishment of Bangladesh
Climate Change Trust Fund)
• Many barriers remain:
– lack of participation of small farmers/fishers in the
policymaking process
– lack of coordination of efforts/approaches
– Private business interests take precedence
• Recommendations for IFPRI:
– Target both policymakers and
communities/NGOs
– Tap into research networks (e.g. Action Research
on Community-based Adaptation Project
(ARCAP), BCAS climate change development
forum)
10. Practitioner survey in 4 focus
countries
• What is the capacity of organizations in
designing and implementing climate change
adaptation activities in focus countries?
• What is the level of capacity for and
importance given by organizations to gender
analysis related to climate change adoption
activities?
• What are the main barriers and constraints
faced by organizations working on climate
change issues?
11. • Clarity of mission and mandate on climate change
• Policy or strategy on climate change
• Adequacy of resources (physical and financial)
• Human resources
• Staff motivation
• Organization and management systems
• Monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
• External enabling environment
• Gender responsiveness
• Collective action and group-based approaches
Indicators used to access
organizational capacity
12. Importance vs. practice
(gender-disaggregated data)
Perceived importance
vs actual practice
Bangladesh
(14)*
Ethiopia
(26)
Kenya (36) Mali (11)
Do not collect, analyze,
or report gender-
disaggregated data
25 76 72 59
Collect, analyze, or report
data on women, men,
girls, and boys in
household
41 14 19 15
Collect, analyze, or report
data on female-headed
households and male-
headed households
34 11 9 26
13. • Attention to gender issues is perceived by
practitioners as important during the design
and planning stage of climate change-related
activities
• But gender issues receive much less attention
during implementation and even less during
M&E.
• Gender-disaggregated data collection,
monitoring, and reporting are rarely done as
part of their organizations’ climate change–
related activities.
Key Messages I/II
14. • To improve outcomes, need organizational
capacity strengthening for local organizations
working in and providing services to rural
communities
• .. and for promoting a culture of impact and
M&E within these organizations
• Important training needs in climate change
management and in gender and social
analysis.
Key Messages II/II
15. Microinsurance Experiments: Hypotheses
1. Do men and women prefer different kind of
insurance products? Do they have different
risk preferences?
2. Do farmers prefer to buy insurance against
more frequent bad events or bad events
that are less frequent? (e.g. major floods that
occur every 2-3 years or the really devastating
ones that happen every 10 years or so)
3. How does the willingness to buy such
insurance vary with price?
(joint work with University of Oxford and MTID)
16. Microinsurance Experiments: Method
– Field experiments playing insurance purchase games with
farmers in rural Bangladesh in two districts, Manikganj and
Bogra.
– 60 sessions in 20 villages; 20 all men, 20 all women, 20 mixed
– Each session has 12-15 participants and 3 games
– Show-up fee 50 Taka and earnings in the game were paid out
(average expected earning 300 Taka)
– Sessions were randomly selected to get insurance either at an
actuarially fair price or a subsidized price
– Order of the games were randomized across sessions
17. Microinsurance Experiments: Sample
• On average respondents are 38 years old, 50 percent
men with 4.6 years of schooling live in households of 5
members.
• Main occupation- self-employed in agriculture (44%) or
housework (47%). More than 92% grow paddy in both
seasons.
• Own on average 90 decimals of land.
• Face a multitude of agricultural risks- pests(37%), lack of
rain(17%), too much rain/flood(14/12%), deficient
irrigation water.
• Some familiarity with insurance- 16% ever bought life
insurance
18. Overall results
• Extremely high take-up rates reflect that behavior in experimental
settings may be different from real life decision making, but can
indicate relative demand for insurance products
• No significant difference between men and women on the
probability of buying any insurance.
– However, men buy a larger number of units as compared to women
• More risk averse individuals bought fewer units of insurance
– Scope for better design which can reduce basis risk
• Fewer units were bought when price was higher
• Gendered results:
– For women, but not men, wealth was an important determinant of
number of units purchased
– Women who were more financially literate purchased fewer units when
offered at the actuarially unfair price
19. Next two presentations
• Impacts of climatic and other shocks on men’s and
women’s assets
• Men’s and women’s knowledge and practice of
climate change adaptation techniques
• For more, see http://womenandclimate.ifpri.info/
20. Page 20
Publications
Published
• P1 Goh, A.H.X. 2012. A literature review of the gender-differentiated
impacts of climate change on women’s and men’s assets and well-
being in developing countries. CAPRi Working Paper No. 106
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/capriwp106.pdf
• 2 Bryan, E. and J. Behrman. 2013. Community-based adaptation to
climate change: A Theoretical Framework, Overview of Key Issues and
Discussion of Gender Differentiated Priorities and Participation. CAPRi
Working Paper No. 109.
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/capriwp109.pdf
• P3 Ragasa, C., Y. Sun, E. Bryan, C. Abate, A. Alemu and M. Namori
Keita. 2013. Organizational and institutional issues in climate change
adaptation and risk management. Insights from practitioners’ survey in
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1279.
Washington DC: IFPRI.
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01279.pdf
• P4 Davis, P, S. Ali. 2013. Exploring local perceptions of climate-change
impact and adaptation in rural Bangladesh
• http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01322.pdf
21. Page 21
Publications
Completed, but not yet published
• C1 Aberman, N., R. Birner, E. Haglund, M. Ngigi, S. Ali, B. Okoba, D. Kone and
T. Alemu. 2013. Understanding the policy landscape for climate change
adaptation: a cross-country comparison using the Net-Map method.
Unpublished report.
• C2 Dillon, A. 2013. Gender, Farm Assets, and the Role of Climate Variability on
Production Possibilities. Presented at 2012 CAPRi workshop.
• C3 Beaman, L. and A. Dillon. 2013. Diffusion of Agricultural Technologies within
Social Networks: Evidence from Composting in Mali.
• C4 Donnelly, A. 2013. Potential for Group-Based Approaches to Enhance
Security Assets for Women to Manage Risks under Climate Change: A PRA in
Ethiopia.
• C5 Quisumbing, A.R. and N. Kumar. 2013. Do More Secure Land Rights for
Women Encourage Conservation? The Medium-term Impacts of the
Ethiopian Land Certification.
• C6 Quisumbing, A and N. Kumar. 2013. Do Shocks Affect Men’s and Women’s
Assets Differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda.
• C7 Kumar, N. Microinsurance Decisions: Evidence from Bangladesh.
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Publications
In progress
• I1 Alemu, T. and H. Elias. Shocks and household asset dynamics in
rural Ethiopia
• I2 Ngigi, M. and others Gender, assets and climate risk
management in Kenya
• I3 Jolowicz, S. Rehabilitating Communal Assets in Rural Ethiopia -
Governance Challenges and the Role of Women"
• I4 Rakib, M. Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture and
Livestock – the Case of Bangladesh
• I5 Rakib, M. Gender Differentiated Asset Dynamics in Bangladesh
[[to be added, gendered climate change shocks/asset impacts]]
• I6 Ngigi, M. Farmers’ motives for adapting to climate-smart
practices in Kenya using means-end analysis
23. Page 23
Publications
• I7 Ngigi, M. The role of gender and social capital in the intensity of
adaptation to climate change in Kenya
• I8 Ngigi, M. Impact of shocks on household assets accumulation
and poverty traps in Kenya
• I9 Gender, Risk Preferences and Adaptation to climate change:
Experimental evidence from Ethiopia, Helen Berga, Tekie Alemu
and others
• I10 Aberman, N. Assessing the governance of community-based
adaptation: mapping gender-focused initiatives in rural Kenya
• I11 Aberman, N. Women’s engagement in climate change
adaptation: Perceptions of power and knowledge in Western
Kenya
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