This document summarizes the current literature on gender and natural resource management approaches, and discusses the history of land reform and status of women's land rights in rural China. It reviews two main strands of gender and environment theory, as well as three approaches adopted by developers - WED, WID, and GED. The GED approach that emphasizes dynamic social relations is adopted for analyzing rural women's land rights and feminization of agriculture in China. It then discusses China's land reform history from 1949 to 1978. Despite some gains, women's land rights are still limited in reality, and they can lose land due to marriage, divorce or widowhood. Data shows difficulties for newly married, divorced and widowed women to retain or obtain land
Achieving Gender Justice in Indonesia's Forest and Land Governance SectorAksi SETAPAK
This document discusses gender issues related to land and forest governance in Indonesia. It notes that land-based industries like palm oil plantations and mining are expanding rapidly and causing high rates of deforestation. This expansion often has disproportionate negative impacts on women, such as loss of land and livelihoods, environmental damage, and increased work burdens. It recommends that civil society organizations address these gendered impacts and promote women's participation in decision making to achieve more sustainable and equitable forest governance. Specifically, it suggests CSOs use gender analysis tools to understand industry impacts on men and women, and support grassroots communities affected by these changes. This will help ensure the most vulnerable groups are supported and their needs considered in governance processes.
The Influence of Gardening Activities on Consumer Perceptions of Life Satisfa...BenBeckers
This study investigated the influence of gardening on perceptions of life satisfaction. The researchers surveyed over 400 gardeners and non-gardeners using the Life Satisfaction Inventory A (LSIA), which measures five components of quality of life. Results showed that gardeners had statistically significant higher overall life satisfaction scores than non-gardeners. When individual statements were analyzed, gardeners responded more positively on statements relating to energy levels, optimism, zest for life, and physical self-concept. Gardeners also rated their overall health and physical activity levels higher than non-gardeners.
The document discusses the mental health benefits of urban greenspace based on existing literature and evidence. It examines the commonly cited beliefs that contact with nature in cities can reduce stress and improve well-being. The scientific evidence for these claims comes from a few types of studies: controlled experiments showing benefits of natural views/settings, studies using nature photos/videos to test reactions, surveys of people's experiences and preferences in nature, and analyses of health data related to locations. While some evidence supports the beliefs, the magnitude of nature's effects depends also on lack of stressors in built environments. Overall access to restorative natural areas in cities may produce short and long-term mental and physical health benefits.
Human ecology theory views humans and families as interacting with their environments. It considers these relationships as systems, with families carrying out biological, economic, and social functions for themselves and society. Families and environments are interdependent and influence each other. Families must adapt as they allocate resources to meet individual and family needs while balancing cooperation with demands for autonomy. The goal is survival and improving quality of life while sustaining natural resources.
Organic Agriculture: Consumers Attitudes and Behavioral Change in the context...AI Publications
Unintentional ingestion of pesticides is common in societies. Yet the consequences are multiplying in a disastrous way. Organic agriculture [OA] roles at preserving the environment and the health of the consumer. The objective of this study is to analyze the attitudes and purchase intentions of the consumer through the theory of Ajzen's planned behaviour. A total of 318 consumers were interviewed in the localities of Loum, Njombé-Penja and Mbanga using a mix questionnaire. The Likert model, 5-point scale was used to measure attitudes. The results obtained reveal that positive attitudes lead to purchasing intentions among consumers in relation to organic products (Mean = 40.5283; Standard Deviation. = 5.89638) to the detriment of conventional products (Mean = 22.7484; Standard Deviation. = 5.57707). This significant difference is in favour of organic products (F (1 318) = 1.812; p ˂ 0.05). In fact, intention is the intermediate variable between attitudes and observed behaviours.
Policy and political engagement: Entanglement? Responsibility? Opportunity?nabo_ghea
This document discusses the potential role of anthropology and anthropologists in climate policy and political discussions. It argues that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to address the human dimensions of climate change due to their holistic perspective spanning various temporal and social scales. While scholarly organizations face disadvantages in directly influencing policy, the document outlines several strategies anthropologists could employ, including developing coalitions, educating the public, networking with other experts, and utilizing insider connections. It emphasizes the responsibility of anthropologists to share knowledge about climate change and its human impacts.
This document discusses the roles of several influential women in environmentalism and sustainable development. It introduces Rachel Carson, known for her book Silent Spring about the impacts of pesticides on nature. Maria Cherkasova is highlighted as a journalist and ecologist in Russia. Vandana Shiva and Wangari Maathai are presented as environmental activists advocating for traditional farming and reforestation, respectively. Medha Patkar and Sugathakumari led important movements involving dams and forest protection in India. Mayilamma protested the environmental impacts of Coca-Cola in her village. Overall the document emphasizes the importance of women's perspectives and participation in environmental issues and development.
Achieving Gender Justice in Indonesia's Forest and Land Governance SectorAksi SETAPAK
This document discusses gender issues related to land and forest governance in Indonesia. It notes that land-based industries like palm oil plantations and mining are expanding rapidly and causing high rates of deforestation. This expansion often has disproportionate negative impacts on women, such as loss of land and livelihoods, environmental damage, and increased work burdens. It recommends that civil society organizations address these gendered impacts and promote women's participation in decision making to achieve more sustainable and equitable forest governance. Specifically, it suggests CSOs use gender analysis tools to understand industry impacts on men and women, and support grassroots communities affected by these changes. This will help ensure the most vulnerable groups are supported and their needs considered in governance processes.
The Influence of Gardening Activities on Consumer Perceptions of Life Satisfa...BenBeckers
This study investigated the influence of gardening on perceptions of life satisfaction. The researchers surveyed over 400 gardeners and non-gardeners using the Life Satisfaction Inventory A (LSIA), which measures five components of quality of life. Results showed that gardeners had statistically significant higher overall life satisfaction scores than non-gardeners. When individual statements were analyzed, gardeners responded more positively on statements relating to energy levels, optimism, zest for life, and physical self-concept. Gardeners also rated their overall health and physical activity levels higher than non-gardeners.
The document discusses the mental health benefits of urban greenspace based on existing literature and evidence. It examines the commonly cited beliefs that contact with nature in cities can reduce stress and improve well-being. The scientific evidence for these claims comes from a few types of studies: controlled experiments showing benefits of natural views/settings, studies using nature photos/videos to test reactions, surveys of people's experiences and preferences in nature, and analyses of health data related to locations. While some evidence supports the beliefs, the magnitude of nature's effects depends also on lack of stressors in built environments. Overall access to restorative natural areas in cities may produce short and long-term mental and physical health benefits.
Human ecology theory views humans and families as interacting with their environments. It considers these relationships as systems, with families carrying out biological, economic, and social functions for themselves and society. Families and environments are interdependent and influence each other. Families must adapt as they allocate resources to meet individual and family needs while balancing cooperation with demands for autonomy. The goal is survival and improving quality of life while sustaining natural resources.
Organic Agriculture: Consumers Attitudes and Behavioral Change in the context...AI Publications
Unintentional ingestion of pesticides is common in societies. Yet the consequences are multiplying in a disastrous way. Organic agriculture [OA] roles at preserving the environment and the health of the consumer. The objective of this study is to analyze the attitudes and purchase intentions of the consumer through the theory of Ajzen's planned behaviour. A total of 318 consumers were interviewed in the localities of Loum, Njombé-Penja and Mbanga using a mix questionnaire. The Likert model, 5-point scale was used to measure attitudes. The results obtained reveal that positive attitudes lead to purchasing intentions among consumers in relation to organic products (Mean = 40.5283; Standard Deviation. = 5.89638) to the detriment of conventional products (Mean = 22.7484; Standard Deviation. = 5.57707). This significant difference is in favour of organic products (F (1 318) = 1.812; p ˂ 0.05). In fact, intention is the intermediate variable between attitudes and observed behaviours.
Policy and political engagement: Entanglement? Responsibility? Opportunity?nabo_ghea
This document discusses the potential role of anthropology and anthropologists in climate policy and political discussions. It argues that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to address the human dimensions of climate change due to their holistic perspective spanning various temporal and social scales. While scholarly organizations face disadvantages in directly influencing policy, the document outlines several strategies anthropologists could employ, including developing coalitions, educating the public, networking with other experts, and utilizing insider connections. It emphasizes the responsibility of anthropologists to share knowledge about climate change and its human impacts.
This document discusses the roles of several influential women in environmentalism and sustainable development. It introduces Rachel Carson, known for her book Silent Spring about the impacts of pesticides on nature. Maria Cherkasova is highlighted as a journalist and ecologist in Russia. Vandana Shiva and Wangari Maathai are presented as environmental activists advocating for traditional farming and reforestation, respectively. Medha Patkar and Sugathakumari led important movements involving dams and forest protection in India. Mayilamma protested the environmental impacts of Coca-Cola in her village. Overall the document emphasizes the importance of women's perspectives and participation in environmental issues and development.
Women face disadvantages related to the environment and natural resources due to traditional gender roles. They spend significant time collecting water, fuel, and farming without secure land rights. This limits their time for other activities and subjects them to health and safety risks. Integrating gender considerations into environmental policies and increasing women's access to resources and decision making can improve environmental sustainability and reduce poverty and hunger.
Women face significant challenges in accessing productive resources like land and capital. While commonly cited statistics about women's contributions to agriculture and poverty rates are often unsupported, there are real gender inequalities. Better data and nuanced analysis are needed to understand intrahousehold dynamics and women's roles in food production and environmental stewardship. Recognizing women's agency and constraints in different contexts can improve policies and interventions.
This document discusses gender roles in water management practices in rural Ghana. It finds that while women play a major role in collecting, managing, and maintaining water supplies, their participation in decision-making and planning for water projects is low. Men traditionally dominate decision-making processes. The study concludes that educating both men and women on the importance of women's active participation in decision-making can help enhance effective management of water resources.
1. In 1982, a group of 26 US scholars and development professionals founded the Association for Women in Development (AWID) to bring together academics, practitioners, and policymakers working on issues related to women and development.
2. AWID's first conference in 1983 was a success, attracting 850 participants. This indicated there was significant interest in the emerging field of women in development. Over the next two decades, AWID grew internationally and shifted its focus from "women in development" to "gender and development" and later "women's rights."
3. By the mid-1980s, AWID was grappling with calls to better represent voices from the global South and issues like violence against women.
The document discusses bridging the gap between emergency preparedness and response for all communities. It notes that preparedness efforts have not accounted for varying financial resources and that minorities and those with lower incomes are more vulnerable during disasters. It argues that environmental education and preparedness programs need to consider the distinct demographic characteristics of communities to be effective and ensure social and environmental justice. The document concludes by stressing the importance of understanding coupled human-environment systems and social determinants of health to promote resilience for all.
Conventional thinking: “human-wildlife conflict is a problem that needs to be controlled”. But this is only one frame.
Frames are “cognitive structures that help humans to make sense of the world by suggesting which component of a complex reality to consider” (Wilhelm-Rechmann et al. 2011).They influence thoughts, plans and practices.
Analysing frames raises awareness of different types of human-wildlife conflicts, situations & interventions; brings attention to research needs for human-wildlife coexistence strategies; challenges what is ‘obvious’; and seeks innovative solutions through dialogue.
A typology of frames provides the foundations for comparison.
This document summarizes four overlapping approaches to water governance - management, institutions, social-ecological systems, and values - and argues that explicitly considering values and ethics can help address conflicts in water governance. It outlines a values-based approach, noting that values underlie behaviors and governance aims. A case study from New Mexico is used to illustrate how value systems are reflected in water policies and affect governance priorities like environmental flows.
This document discusses the evolution of thinking around gender and development. It describes how the "Women in Development" (WID) approach in the 1970s sought to include women in development projects and address their specific concerns. However, WID was later criticized for its limits, leading to the "Gender and Development" (GAD) approach in the 1980s and 1990s. A key concept of GAD is "empowerment" which recognizes that women must be organized to change power structures that keep them in secondary status. Empowerment efforts now occur at local, national, and global levels through non-governmental organizations, women's commissions, and international conferences.
The document discusses key concepts related to social change and development. It defines social change as significant alterations in social structure, patterns of social action, and interaction. Development is defined as a process towards a desirable state that is an improvement over the previous condition. The document outlines various models and processes of social change, as well as factors, types, and barriers. It also discusses the role of education in social change and defines concepts like social development, economic development, participatory development, and sustainable development.
This document discusses different approaches to human ecology and their relation to disasters. It describes three main approaches: ecosystem approach, landscape approach, and perception approach.
The ecosystem approach focuses on interactions between organisms and their environment. It recognizes humans as integral parts of ecosystems. The landscape approach takes a holistic view of natural features, infrastructure, stakeholders, and external forces affecting an area. It facilitates inclusive risk assessment and planning.
The perception approach involves three stages: selection of sensory information, organization of information into patterns based on proximity, similarity, and difference, and interpretation to explain selections and organizations in a way that makes sense, influenced by both internal and external factors.
This document summarizes a comparative study of beliefs about "evil eye" or "mal de ojo" across four Latino populations with historical links to Spain: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, Mexican Americans in south Texas, Mexicans in Guadalajara, Mexico, and rural Guatemalans. The study finds widespread recognition of mal de ojo across communities and examines consistency within and between communities to identify core themes in beliefs about causes, symptoms, and treatments that may have persisted over time from older Spanish versions.
The Perspective and Association of Geography with Environment and Societypaperpublications3
Abstract: The study examines the relationship of the discipline of Geography with conceptual terms of Environment and society. Geography is seen as a spatial science, majorly concerned with spatial analysis, of how and why things differ from place to place and how observable spatial pattern evolved through time on the surface of the earth. The study adopts a survey of literature as its methodology. It is observable that every society has its individual physical and cultural attributes that distinguishing it from other societies; thus giving it unique character, potential and location. And it is found that in society cultural traits are more pronounced in changing the natural phenomena of the environment. The Environment is better understood when broken to its component: atmosphere, hydrosphere lithosphere and biosphere. Environment has all that is needed to sustain the society and all that is required for life sustenance. It provides the setting with which human action occurs, its shapes but not dictate, how people live in the society as well as their resource base. However, how resources are perceived and utilized is culturally conditioned in society. And virtually every human activity leaves its imprint on the environment. Environment and society form the laboratory for geographic operation. And its spheres form the space which is the major concern in geography and the concept of society introduces the important factor of culture which greatly has direct impact on the environment. The socio-cultural content of the society is influenced by the environment where it locates and the society modifies the content of the environment. There are interconnection between the environment and society which purposely produces spatial patterns with their hidden mechanism of spatial process, accessibility and connectively in addition to idea of location and distance. Advance level of interaction has produced globalization which has accelerated greater spatial diffusion of idea and material resources in the world. The major role of geography is to ensure harmonious spatial organization and inter relationship between and among societies on one hand and between society and its environment on the other. Thus, this is being pursued in geography through its traditions: Earth science, cultural-environment, the location (space), the areal analysis and various paradigms and spatial techniques. It is therefore recommended that for speedy development in developing nations particularly at combating the myriad of environmental challenges and appropriate exploitation and utilization of environmental resources, the spatial tool should be adopted as contained in the discipline of Geography.
The document discusses social change at multiple levels. It defines social change as variations or modifications in social organization, groups, communities, institutions, or the roles and statuses of members. Social change is influenced by numerous interrelated factors including technology, culture, environment, communication, and values. The rate, form, direction, causes, and order of social change are described. Barriers and stimulants to change are also cultural, social, and psychological. The document also provides examples of social change in Philippine society through modernization.
This document presents an outline for a presentation on social change and its factors. It begins with introducing sociology and defining society. Social change is then defined as a process that changes social organization, structure, and functions. The characteristics of social change are described as being social, universal, continuous, inevitable, and temporal. The factors that affect social change are then discussed, including natural factors, cultural factors, science and technology, biological factors, demographic factors, socio-economic factors, and geographical factors. Specific examples are provided for some factors. The presentation concludes by asking the audience to think of an example of social change.
Gender dimensions of community-based groundwater governance in Ethiopia: usin...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Likimyelesh Nigussie (IWMI), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
1. Social change refers to alterations in social order, social institutions, social behaviors, social relations, or other aspects of social structure over time.
2. Social change may be driven by cultural, religious, economic, scientific or technological forces and can include paradigm shifts or social movements.
3. Theories of social change include evolutionary theories of linear or multilinear progress, cyclical theories of rise and fall of societies, and conflict theories that social change results from conflicts between groups within society.
Feygina (2013, SJR) Social Justice and the Human-Environment RelationshipIrina Feygina, Ph.D.
This document discusses the common systemic, ideological, and psychological roots of social injustice and environmental destruction. It argues that prevailing social systems espouse ideologies of domination over both other groups and the natural world. This stems from historical developments that established human superiority and justified the exploitation of nature. Maintaining the current hierarchical social and economic order relies on perpetuating these ideologies and motivating denial of environmental problems. Both social injustice and environmental neglect are exacerbated by psychological tendencies like social dominance orientation that uphold the status quo. The shared roots and perpetuating factors point to the need to address these issues through related interventions.
This document summarizes a study that examined the cultural identity, behavioral intentions, and conservation behavior of residents on the small Taiwanese island of Xiaoliuqiu. The study found that: 1) Cultural identity has a significant positive influence on residents' behavioral intentions; 2) Behavioral intentions have a significant positive influence on conservation behavior; 3) An evaluation framework was developed that could help relevant institutions and guide future research on similar topics. The study involved surveying 298 Xiaoliuqiu residents to understand the relationships between these factors.
This document summarizes and discusses a paper on taking a feminist studies approach to examining eco-food relations. It is divided into three parts. Part A addresses how environmental constraints will further disadvantage women in the food system and impact health and well-being. Part B describes a gender-based livelihood and nutrition intervention in Bangladesh to address constraints facing women farmers. Part C discusses advancing approaches to food justice based on critical nutrition studies and feminist perspectives.
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The document provides an overview of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), including its history, organization, functions, and role in monetary policy. Some key points:
- RBI was established in 1935 and serves as India's central bank, regulating the country's monetary policy and currency.
- Its key functions include financial supervision of banks, managing monetary policy, issuing currency, acting as banker to the government and banks, regulating the financial sector, and managing foreign exchange.
- RBI aims to control inflation through monetary policy tools like repo and reverse repo rates, cash reserve ratios, and open market operations. It also plays a developmental role in agriculture lending and disaster relief.
Women face disadvantages related to the environment and natural resources due to traditional gender roles. They spend significant time collecting water, fuel, and farming without secure land rights. This limits their time for other activities and subjects them to health and safety risks. Integrating gender considerations into environmental policies and increasing women's access to resources and decision making can improve environmental sustainability and reduce poverty and hunger.
Women face significant challenges in accessing productive resources like land and capital. While commonly cited statistics about women's contributions to agriculture and poverty rates are often unsupported, there are real gender inequalities. Better data and nuanced analysis are needed to understand intrahousehold dynamics and women's roles in food production and environmental stewardship. Recognizing women's agency and constraints in different contexts can improve policies and interventions.
This document discusses gender roles in water management practices in rural Ghana. It finds that while women play a major role in collecting, managing, and maintaining water supplies, their participation in decision-making and planning for water projects is low. Men traditionally dominate decision-making processes. The study concludes that educating both men and women on the importance of women's active participation in decision-making can help enhance effective management of water resources.
1. In 1982, a group of 26 US scholars and development professionals founded the Association for Women in Development (AWID) to bring together academics, practitioners, and policymakers working on issues related to women and development.
2. AWID's first conference in 1983 was a success, attracting 850 participants. This indicated there was significant interest in the emerging field of women in development. Over the next two decades, AWID grew internationally and shifted its focus from "women in development" to "gender and development" and later "women's rights."
3. By the mid-1980s, AWID was grappling with calls to better represent voices from the global South and issues like violence against women.
The document discusses bridging the gap between emergency preparedness and response for all communities. It notes that preparedness efforts have not accounted for varying financial resources and that minorities and those with lower incomes are more vulnerable during disasters. It argues that environmental education and preparedness programs need to consider the distinct demographic characteristics of communities to be effective and ensure social and environmental justice. The document concludes by stressing the importance of understanding coupled human-environment systems and social determinants of health to promote resilience for all.
Conventional thinking: “human-wildlife conflict is a problem that needs to be controlled”. But this is only one frame.
Frames are “cognitive structures that help humans to make sense of the world by suggesting which component of a complex reality to consider” (Wilhelm-Rechmann et al. 2011).They influence thoughts, plans and practices.
Analysing frames raises awareness of different types of human-wildlife conflicts, situations & interventions; brings attention to research needs for human-wildlife coexistence strategies; challenges what is ‘obvious’; and seeks innovative solutions through dialogue.
A typology of frames provides the foundations for comparison.
This document summarizes four overlapping approaches to water governance - management, institutions, social-ecological systems, and values - and argues that explicitly considering values and ethics can help address conflicts in water governance. It outlines a values-based approach, noting that values underlie behaviors and governance aims. A case study from New Mexico is used to illustrate how value systems are reflected in water policies and affect governance priorities like environmental flows.
This document discusses the evolution of thinking around gender and development. It describes how the "Women in Development" (WID) approach in the 1970s sought to include women in development projects and address their specific concerns. However, WID was later criticized for its limits, leading to the "Gender and Development" (GAD) approach in the 1980s and 1990s. A key concept of GAD is "empowerment" which recognizes that women must be organized to change power structures that keep them in secondary status. Empowerment efforts now occur at local, national, and global levels through non-governmental organizations, women's commissions, and international conferences.
The document discusses key concepts related to social change and development. It defines social change as significant alterations in social structure, patterns of social action, and interaction. Development is defined as a process towards a desirable state that is an improvement over the previous condition. The document outlines various models and processes of social change, as well as factors, types, and barriers. It also discusses the role of education in social change and defines concepts like social development, economic development, participatory development, and sustainable development.
This document discusses different approaches to human ecology and their relation to disasters. It describes three main approaches: ecosystem approach, landscape approach, and perception approach.
The ecosystem approach focuses on interactions between organisms and their environment. It recognizes humans as integral parts of ecosystems. The landscape approach takes a holistic view of natural features, infrastructure, stakeholders, and external forces affecting an area. It facilitates inclusive risk assessment and planning.
The perception approach involves three stages: selection of sensory information, organization of information into patterns based on proximity, similarity, and difference, and interpretation to explain selections and organizations in a way that makes sense, influenced by both internal and external factors.
This document summarizes a comparative study of beliefs about "evil eye" or "mal de ojo" across four Latino populations with historical links to Spain: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, Mexican Americans in south Texas, Mexicans in Guadalajara, Mexico, and rural Guatemalans. The study finds widespread recognition of mal de ojo across communities and examines consistency within and between communities to identify core themes in beliefs about causes, symptoms, and treatments that may have persisted over time from older Spanish versions.
The Perspective and Association of Geography with Environment and Societypaperpublications3
Abstract: The study examines the relationship of the discipline of Geography with conceptual terms of Environment and society. Geography is seen as a spatial science, majorly concerned with spatial analysis, of how and why things differ from place to place and how observable spatial pattern evolved through time on the surface of the earth. The study adopts a survey of literature as its methodology. It is observable that every society has its individual physical and cultural attributes that distinguishing it from other societies; thus giving it unique character, potential and location. And it is found that in society cultural traits are more pronounced in changing the natural phenomena of the environment. The Environment is better understood when broken to its component: atmosphere, hydrosphere lithosphere and biosphere. Environment has all that is needed to sustain the society and all that is required for life sustenance. It provides the setting with which human action occurs, its shapes but not dictate, how people live in the society as well as their resource base. However, how resources are perceived and utilized is culturally conditioned in society. And virtually every human activity leaves its imprint on the environment. Environment and society form the laboratory for geographic operation. And its spheres form the space which is the major concern in geography and the concept of society introduces the important factor of culture which greatly has direct impact on the environment. The socio-cultural content of the society is influenced by the environment where it locates and the society modifies the content of the environment. There are interconnection between the environment and society which purposely produces spatial patterns with their hidden mechanism of spatial process, accessibility and connectively in addition to idea of location and distance. Advance level of interaction has produced globalization which has accelerated greater spatial diffusion of idea and material resources in the world. The major role of geography is to ensure harmonious spatial organization and inter relationship between and among societies on one hand and between society and its environment on the other. Thus, this is being pursued in geography through its traditions: Earth science, cultural-environment, the location (space), the areal analysis and various paradigms and spatial techniques. It is therefore recommended that for speedy development in developing nations particularly at combating the myriad of environmental challenges and appropriate exploitation and utilization of environmental resources, the spatial tool should be adopted as contained in the discipline of Geography.
The document discusses social change at multiple levels. It defines social change as variations or modifications in social organization, groups, communities, institutions, or the roles and statuses of members. Social change is influenced by numerous interrelated factors including technology, culture, environment, communication, and values. The rate, form, direction, causes, and order of social change are described. Barriers and stimulants to change are also cultural, social, and psychological. The document also provides examples of social change in Philippine society through modernization.
This document presents an outline for a presentation on social change and its factors. It begins with introducing sociology and defining society. Social change is then defined as a process that changes social organization, structure, and functions. The characteristics of social change are described as being social, universal, continuous, inevitable, and temporal. The factors that affect social change are then discussed, including natural factors, cultural factors, science and technology, biological factors, demographic factors, socio-economic factors, and geographical factors. Specific examples are provided for some factors. The presentation concludes by asking the audience to think of an example of social change.
Gender dimensions of community-based groundwater governance in Ethiopia: usin...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Likimyelesh Nigussie (IWMI), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
1. Social change refers to alterations in social order, social institutions, social behaviors, social relations, or other aspects of social structure over time.
2. Social change may be driven by cultural, religious, economic, scientific or technological forces and can include paradigm shifts or social movements.
3. Theories of social change include evolutionary theories of linear or multilinear progress, cyclical theories of rise and fall of societies, and conflict theories that social change results from conflicts between groups within society.
Feygina (2013, SJR) Social Justice and the Human-Environment RelationshipIrina Feygina, Ph.D.
This document discusses the common systemic, ideological, and psychological roots of social injustice and environmental destruction. It argues that prevailing social systems espouse ideologies of domination over both other groups and the natural world. This stems from historical developments that established human superiority and justified the exploitation of nature. Maintaining the current hierarchical social and economic order relies on perpetuating these ideologies and motivating denial of environmental problems. Both social injustice and environmental neglect are exacerbated by psychological tendencies like social dominance orientation that uphold the status quo. The shared roots and perpetuating factors point to the need to address these issues through related interventions.
This document summarizes a study that examined the cultural identity, behavioral intentions, and conservation behavior of residents on the small Taiwanese island of Xiaoliuqiu. The study found that: 1) Cultural identity has a significant positive influence on residents' behavioral intentions; 2) Behavioral intentions have a significant positive influence on conservation behavior; 3) An evaluation framework was developed that could help relevant institutions and guide future research on similar topics. The study involved surveying 298 Xiaoliuqiu residents to understand the relationships between these factors.
This document summarizes and discusses a paper on taking a feminist studies approach to examining eco-food relations. It is divided into three parts. Part A addresses how environmental constraints will further disadvantage women in the food system and impact health and well-being. Part B describes a gender-based livelihood and nutrition intervention in Bangladesh to address constraints facing women farmers. Part C discusses advancing approaches to food justice based on critical nutrition studies and feminist perspectives.
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PPT MADE BY DEVEN JAIN FROM JAMNER
The document provides an overview of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), including its history, organization, functions, and role in monetary policy. Some key points:
- RBI was established in 1935 and serves as India's central bank, regulating the country's monetary policy and currency.
- Its key functions include financial supervision of banks, managing monetary policy, issuing currency, acting as banker to the government and banks, regulating the financial sector, and managing foreign exchange.
- RBI aims to control inflation through monetary policy tools like repo and reverse repo rates, cash reserve ratios, and open market operations. It also plays a developmental role in agriculture lending and disaster relief.
Research paper: Community Based Natural Resources Management in VietnamSPERI
This research paper will discuss the role of the community in natural resource management, particularly land and forest management and protection in Vietnam. The paper offers a discussion of environmental discourses that are related to the impacts of state land and forest management policies. Though ethnic communities in Vietnam have developed their knowledge and institutional systems in community natural resource management for a long time, communities were not recognized formally as one of the land users until 2003. Even then, though communities were identified as land users, few communities could attain land title. Those policies have had consequences with communities and their members facing shortages of land and forest. Nevertheless, those resources are essential for sustaining local people’s livelihoods, protecting forest, and keeping their cultural values.
The paper is organized in three main parts. The first summaries some key environmental discourses, especially ‘sustainable development’, and introduces concepts of culture, customary laws and community-based natural resource management. The second part deals with resource management and related legal framework in Vietnam. The third part illustrates the role of community in land and forest use and protection through a discussion of a Thai ethnic community in Vietnam
A discussion paper on the development of a Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (SAAA): a long term strategic framework. This Discussion Paper raises substantive questions as they relate to the essential ingredients of a long-term strategic framework for a SAAA, and invites a discourse around these issues and questions.
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2. I. Executive Summary
Since 1978, China has experienced and is still experiencing major changes in its
economy, paralleled by transformations in its society and large-scale environmental
impacts. Basically, a generally accepted implication for the reform is that careful
balance of and trade-offs among economic growth, equity, poverty reduction and
natural resource management are needed if long-term sustainable development is to
be achieved. However, the reform has different socioeconomic impacts on different
groups of people depending on different factors, in this paper, gender. To be more
specific, the gender dimension of these changes is two sided. On the one hand, despite
the land reform, rural women’s land rights are still very limited. On the other hand,
out-migration from rural area to cities has resulted in a rapid and significant transfer
from agricultural to non-agricultural employment. As a result, feminization of
agriculture is coexisted with women’s lack of full land rights. To make things worse,
the access of these farming women to basic and natural resources and institutional
services, such as credit, market information, training and extension services, has also
been limited to a large extent. Given the fact that women are playing crucial roles but
still have an inferior status in many rural areas, this research paper aims to explore the
gender dimension of China’s land reform and its impacts on farming women, rural
livelihood and a sustainable agricultural and rural development, as well as agricultural
feminization and its policy implications.
At first section of the paper, I will briefly review current literature existed about
gender and natural resource management approaches/theories. Then For the second
3. section, I will at first introduce the history of China’s land reform. Based on that
historical background, I will then discuss status quo of women’s land rights in rural
China. And for the final part of this section, I will try to explore if feminization of
agriculture has become a trend in rural China and its impact on natural resource
management and agricultural development as well.
Finally, after examining both theories and facts, I will outline policy implications and
feasible policies to deal with land rights, land management and agriculture
development in rural China from a gender perspective.
II. Literature review of gender and natural resource management
The main purpose of this part is to review the current existed debates around gender,
environment and natural resource management as these have unfolded in response to a
widening engagement with environmental concerns within development policy
frameworks.
Basically there are two main strands of gender and environment theory: (1) liberal
correctives to gender-blind scholarship within development policy and practice, and
(2) relational perspectives that emphasize binary power relations between men and
women. The assumption behind both of the two theories is that men and women hold
gender-differentiated interests in natural resource management through their
distinctive roles, responsibilities and knowledge. In other words, gender is understood
as a critical variable in shaping processes of ecological change, viable livelihoods and
the prospects for sustainable development. Nevertheless, the latter perspective gives
4. more emphasis to the dynamics of gender, power relations between men and women
over resource access and control, and their concrete expressions in conflict,
cooperation and coexistence over environments and livelihoods.
Similarly, in the development policy world, there are three main approaches adopted
by developers when they make policy towards gender-dimensioned natural resource
management in the South. They are WED approach, WID approach and GED
approach.
WED (women, environment and development) posits natural connections between
women and environmental resources, treats women as the unrecognized caretakers of
the environment, and in whose care the Earth and its resources had better chances of
surviving for future generations (Dankelman and Davidson, 1988; Shiva, 1989; Rodda,
1991; Sontheimer, 1991). WED’s logic is that women are adversely affected by
environmental degradation due to an a priori gender division of labor. As a result,
women should then be targeted in conservation projects since their daily roles
connected them more closely to natural resources.
A number of scholars have identified problems associated with this theory/ approach.
At first, scholars have challenged the notion that women have fixed caretaker roles
and that they may become key assets to be harnessed in resource conservation
initiatives (Rocheleau, 1991; Leach, 1992, 1994). Secondly, Rao (1991) has argued
for the need to contextualize women as they dynamically respond to complex
environmental realities, and to consider how they enter into and engage in social
relationship s with men within the institutions of their natural resource-dependent
5. societies/ communities instead of a priori perceptions on women’s roles. Thirdly,
research has criticized that WED approach connotes a victim status of rural women
from the South. According to this critique, as the main victims of environmental
degradation, WED approach position women as the most appropriate participants in
environmental conservation, and thus a natural constituency for donor-initiated
resource protection conservation and regeneration (Dankelman and Davidson, 1988;
Shiva, 1989; Rodda, 1991; Sontheimer, 1991).
Another popular but also controversial approach is WID (women in development) that
treat women as a stand-alone homogeneous group with a set of static and predefined
roles that translated into their disadvantage social lives (Rathgeber, 1990).
Then with the transition of gender and development research, arguments have been
made for more context-specific and historically nuanced understandings of the
relationship of specific groups of women with specific environmental resources,
especially as these are mediated by their complex relations with men, kin and other
social actors. An early research that incorporates gender and its structuring, relational
and power dimensions was Jcakson (1993a, 1993b). She challenged the idea of
women as a natural constituency for environmental projects, underscoring the
contingent nature and fluidity of gender interests, and approach that has been
discussed more fully in debates regarding practical and strategic interests elsewhere in
the wider fiddle of gender and development (Molyneux, 1985; Moser, 1993; Wieringa,
1994). She proposed that analysis should focus on power relations between women
and men, and that women be treated as a disaggregated group of subjects as gender
6. roles are socially and historically constructed and being continually reformulated.
This approach as advocated by Jackson is the GED (gender, environment and
development) approach. Not like the former two approaches, this approach
emphasizes dynamic social and political relations and contextual analysis, rather than
universal assumptions and essentialist views of men’s and women’s engagement with
the environment.
Based on this approach, scholarship has engaged with a range of empirical concerns.
Work has centered on gendered property rights, such as water and land (Brunt, 1992;
Agarwal, 1994; Meinzen0Dick et al, 1997; von Benda-Beckmann et al, 1997;
Meinzen-Dick and Zwarteveen 1998); gender dynamics in local participation in
development programs and community-based institutions (Villareal, 1992; Mosse,
1994; Agarwal, 1997; Guijt and Shah, 1998; Cleaver, 2003; Colfer, 2005); the micor-
and macro-politics of collective action (Rocheleau et al, 1996); geographical mobility
(Elmhirst, 2002, 2002); gendered environmental knowledge (Fortmann, 1996; Jewitt,
2002; Howard, 2003; Momsen, 2007); livelihoods and resource use (Feldstein and
Poats, 1989; Leach, 1994; Deere, 1995); history (Leach and Green, 1997;
Resurreccion, 1999); and dynamics of gender in policy discourses and within
environmental departments of development agencies (Crewe and Harrison, 1998;
Kurian, 2000).
In recent years, debates in GED and also feminist political ecology have been taken in
new directions through the influence of a performative approach to gender associated
most notably with the feminist theorist Judith Butler (1990, 1994, 2004). This
7. approach allows masculinities and femininities to be regarded as a process:
fragmented, provisional and wrought through the interplay of culture, class,
nationality and other fields of power, and centrally through regulatory frameworks
such as normative heterosexuality. It challenges essentialist and binary views of
relations between men and women that may overemphasize difference and opposition,
and may essentialize particular patterns of gendered disadvantage (Jackson, 2006;
Cornwall, 2007).
The approach that I adopt in my research paper for rural women’s land rights and
feminization of agriculture in rural China is the general GED approach.
III.Women’s land rights in rural China and feminization of agriculture
1. Historical background: China’s land reform history
After coming into power in 1949, the Communist Party’s initial land reform gave
farmers full, private ownership of their small farms through a Land Reform Law and
other accompanying regulations. Through this law Land, titles or certificates of arable
lands were issued to farmers. This “land to the tiller” campaign lifted hundreds of
millions of poor Chinese out of destitution and hunger. Annual crop production
increased 70 percent from 113.2 million to 192.7 million tons between 1949 and1956.
Similarly, total farm income rose 85percent during the same period. However, in the
mid-1950s, China followed in the footsteps of the former Soviet Union and started the
collectivization of all farming. Private ownership of land became illegal. In 1958 the
situation was further exacerbated, with a move to giant “communes” and the
8. termination of the“private lots” that had allowed farmers to hold up to five percent of
the land privately, outside the collective-farming system. This movement finally led to
the Great Famine from 1958 and 1962, causing 15 to 30 million deaths. Finally,
modest reforms, beginning in 1962, ratcheted back the production unit from the
communes to village teams and restored private plots. Production then began a long,
slow recovery.
In the late 1970s, after Deng Xiaoping came into power, several regions of China
began to experiment with tearing down the collective farms and giving individual
farmers limited freedom to farm. Technically, the collectives retained ownership of
the land and allocated or “contracted out” land parcels to individual households for
private farming for a period of time. The land allocation was mostly in equal per
capita shares based on family size. The contracting households, in return, were
obligated to fulfill their “responsibilities” in harvest quotas or taxes to the collectives
every year. This scheme was called the “Household Responsibility System” or the
HRS. After its initial success, the experiment spread rapidly and became the
fundamental system of rural land tenure throughout China. The HRS was an
enormously successful reform, lifting the living standards of hundreds of millions of
rural people and was the driving force behind the single greatest poverty-reduction
achievement worldwide in the past three decades.
Despite the achievements of the HRS, several looming questions were left unresolved
and still remain. As a response, the Chinese government adopted a series of policies
and laws to address these issues. The most important four of them are the 1993 policy
9. directive issued by central government that extended farmers’ land-use rights to a
continuous and fixed term of 30 years; the 1998 revised Land Management Law that
embodied the 30-year policy in formal law for the first time; the 2002 Rural Land
Contracting Law which was devoted entirely to the relationship between collectives’
land-ownership rights and farmers’ land-use rights; and the 2007 Property Law, the
first comprehensive civil property code in modern Chinese history, in which
characterizes farmers ‘rural land-use rights as property rights or rights in rem.
2. Status quo of rural women’s land rights
In this section, I will at first briefly describe the formerly mentioned land reform’s
supposed influence on women’s land rights. And after that, I will also introduce the
reality of women’s land rights status quo in rural China.
Basically, there are three main land arrangements that have implications for women:
the HRS; the 1998 Land Management Law and the 2003 Land Contracting Law.
Firstly, as HRS aimed to grant households individual use right to land for terms of 15
years, it actually to some extent implied that every member of a farm household
would receive a piece of land of the same area. This shift to more individualized
rights transferred authority over women’s labor from the production team back to the
head of the household. And since it also allowed families to increase their revenues
from agricultural production so that led to increase in average household income, it is
probable that the HRS also helped women to gain some benefits.
Secondly, for the 1998 Land Management Law, there are several provisions in the law
that could change women’s land rights. The law sought to eliminate a significant
10. source of land tenure insecurity in China. Therefore, it means that over the next 30
years, families with sons will have to support new daughters-in-law without additional
land. Families with daughters, however, will retain excess land when their daughters
leave the household or village to marry.
Finally, the Land Contracting Law that came into effect in 2003 further strengthens
the rights of households. It states unequivocally that women and men should have
equal rights in respect to contracting land. Furthermore, Article 30 stipulates that
when a woman marries during the land contract term, the contract-issuing party
cannot take away her original contracted and unless she receives land in her marriage
village. When a woman is divorced or widowed, the contract-issuing party cannot
take away her land if she still lives at her current place of residence or moves to a new
place of residence where she cannot get land.
However, despite the stipulation of the formerly mentioned three policy arrangements,
the reality is very different. There are numerous case studies about women who lose
land during land reallocations, or as a result of changes in marital status. Li (2002)
outlines five situations where women might lose their land in her article. First, most
villages in rural China are patrilocal, which means women would move to their
husband’s village on marriage. Married-in women create a need for additional land for
the new household. Second, due to policy and legal restrictions against land
reallocations, women have increasing difficulty either obtaining land in their
husband’s village or retaining land in the village of their birth. Third, in the absence of
land reallocations, the position of women is different from that of men. Unlike men,
11. who can inherit land use rights in their village of birth, women cannot do so, since
they move to their husband’s village upon marriage, and hence upon marriage
effectively become landless. Fourth, in many villages, girls who do not marry at the
customary age fact growing discrimination in land allocations. They are allocated a
smaller share of land than men or no land at all. Finally, women who are widowed or
divorced fact growing difficulty in retaining land in their husband’s village or being
allocated land in their village of birth. 1
In their article Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely
Trends, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu et al studies women’s land rights based on two
sets of data---one collected at the village level (“the village data set”) and the other
collected at the small group level (“the small group dataset”). Based on their datasets,
they examine the land rights of three sub-groups of women: newly married, divorced
and widowed.
For newly married women, it has become increasingly difficult for them to get land in
their marriage villages in rural China. In their survey, 48 per cent of village leaders
claim that in their villages newly married women could not get any land at all in 1998.
However, by 2004 this number has climbed to 55 percent. At the same time, married
women also have difficulty retaining their land in their natal villages. Their village
survey shows that when a woman is either divorced or widowed, her share of land is
treated in one of three ways: either it is retained by the woman automatically, or it is
1 Li Zongmin. Women’s Land Rights in Rural China”, consultant’s report, Commissioned by Ford Foundation in
Beijing.. 2002.
12. taken back by the village, or it is treated along with her residence registration. 2
For divorced women, based on their survey, 74 percent of village leaders responded
that divorced women retained their land in 1998 while in 2004 this number went up to
82 percent. 3
For widowed women, their data show that during the sample period, in almost all
villages, which are 98 percent, widowed women kept their land.
To summarize their finding, they find that villages with relatively more land, a larger
part of land under collective management, a larger number of women on the village
committee and more frequent land reallocations have relatively fewer landless women.
Villages that need land reallocation approval from the town ship government have a
relatively higher proportion of landless women. 4
3. Feminization of agriculture in rural China and its impact on environment and rural
development
In this part, I will at first try to explore if feminization of agriculture does exist as a
trend in recent years based on two available researches. Then I will try to analyze its
impact on natural resource management, rural environment and rural development.
Parallel with women’s land rights situation in rural China, the land reform has also
brought a debate about the increasing participation of women in agriculture in rural
China. Jacka (1997) quotes county officials in Sichuan talking about the “feminization”
of the agricultural labor force. Feminization of agriculture would be a significant
2 Linxue Zhang, Chengfang Liu et al. Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely Trends.
Chapter 5 of Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions. 14 Feb 2011.
3 The same as above
4 Linxue Zhang, Chengfang Liu et al. Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely Trends.
Chapter 5 of Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions. 14 Feb 2011.
13. social trend with far-reaching implications. Also, how women (and men) experience
this increasing feminization of agriculture, especially in the current context of
increasing commercialization of agriculture, becomes an important question.
The term "feminization of agriculture" is first used by Boserup in 1970. Since then,
the trend has been increased rapidly which is mainly linked to the expansion of wage
employment that accompanies economic development and globalization. (Ashiby,
1985, Jiggins, 1998, Price, 1999, Song, 1998).
While the process of agricultural feminization is complicated and the consequences
are multi-dimensional, several authors are concerned about a number of the potential
effects. Song (1998) is concerned that women are being forced to work more hours
and take on increased responsibilities, which supposedly reduces their utility. Katz
(2003) worries that there could be negative effects on the income of women since
women likely will have less access to resources—such as high quality land and credit.
If women are being denied opportunities to participate in the “modern” wage earning
sector and are relegated to working on the farm, the more indirect link between effort
and income from farm activities reduces their status (Gao, 1994). A study by the
UNDP (2001) raises the concern that if women took over the farm, productivity might
fall to the point that it could threaten national food security.
In part due to the perception that these concerns are valid, agricultural feminization
has become an important topic in the literature on China’s drive for modernization.
Despite the absence of large scale studies, most published studies of the role of gender
in China’s agriculture argue the agricultural feminization is happening—especially in
15. income, farmers are losing interest in farming, feminization and ageing of agricultural
labor is severe and increasing, women and old people have become the key
agricultural cultivators. 2).Under these changes gender inequalities is deepening, in
terms of resource and opportunity access, reinforced by conservative cultural norms
and existing institutional systems, and intensified by impact of forces including
globalization and marketization. 3). gender mutual policies like land tenure etc and
gender insensitive supporting services like extension and credit have affected
women’s equal employment in and benefit from the economic growth. 4). Farming
women can be organized into effective women groups for technology development
and market linkage with appropriate support from public research and extension
agencies. Such intervention could greatly empower women and increase their access
to technology, credit and market in a sustainable way.
Based on the findings, the rationale and impact of feminization of agriculture could be
concluded as the following: China’s major economic and social transformations have
changed the structure of agriculture and rural households. To be more specific,
subsistence farming is in crises meanwhile scale enlargement of agriculture for
commercialization is happening. This new context has shaped the transformation and
reconstruction of the gender division of labor within the households. As a result,
externalization of costs has been brought onto women who are staying with farming
and maintaining their land for livelihood security. At the same time, specialization and
mono-cropping driven by the commercial forces has increased farming women’s
dependency on pesticides and fertilizers with externalization of costs to environment.
16. Biodiversity and other natural resources are in degradation and traditional intensive
farming culture is losing due to labor constraints, low return of agriculture and market
forces. 7
Another useful research (Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle, Chengfang Liu, 2006) turns to
farming and seek to answer the question “Is agriculture in China being feminized” by
using large, national-level data sets. Their main metrics: a.) An increasing number of
women who at some time in the past did not participate in on-farm work and now do
(participation measure); b.) A rising number of hours worked on the farm (hours
measure); and c.) A rising share of hours of farmwork done by women within the
household relative to men (household share measure).
Still another, this trend is clearly shown in a recent CCAP study of 200 randomly
selected farmer households in three poor provinces: Anhui, Qinghai and Guangxi.
There has been an overall increase in out-migration in terms of number of households
affected, number of people migrating, and the length of time spent in off-farm jobs.
For example, in 1997, migrants came from 84 households; this number increased to
101 in 1999 and jumped to 174 in 2001, with a further increase to 196 in 2003. The
same study also reported the overall trend in out-migration by sex between 1997 and
2003. It showed that women's out-migration is limited and, although it has increased
over this period, it is far smaller than men's. 8
7 Yiching Song., Linxiu Zhang., Dajiang Sun., Qiu Sun., Janice Jiggins., Feminization of agriculture in rapid changing
rural China: policy implication and alternatives for an equitable growth and sustainable development. Paper
presented at the FAO-IFAD-ILO Workshop on Gaps, trends and current research in gender dimensions of
agricultural and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty Rome, 31 March - 2 April 2009.
8
Yiching Song, Y., L. Zhang., and Ropnnie Vernooy. Empowering Women Farmers and Strengthening the Local
Seed System: action research in Guangxi, China, chapter 5 in book “”Social and Gender Analysis in Natural
Resource Management: Learning Study and Lesson from Asia” Edited by Ronnie Vernooy, joint published by Sage,
IDRC and China Agricultural Press. 2006.
17. Based on findings of all these researches, it is evident that the feminization of
agriculture has increased in the last decade in rural China, especially in the poor areas.
There are several major impacts of the feminization of agriculture on natural resource
management and environment.
First of all, as predominantly small farmers, women have been largely responsible for
activities such as the selection, improvement and adaptation of plant varieties. As a
result, the feminization of agriculture in rural China has both supported and increased
agricultural biodiversity.
Secondly, it also will impact food security. Actually, erosion of genetic diversity of
crops, especially food crops, is a very serious concern in China. The assessment of
food security revealed that bio-diversity loss is one of the new challenges facing
China in its attempt to ensure food security for the future (Huang 2003).
Finally, women’s increasing role in agriculture will also impact crop productivity,
poverty alleviation and rural development. Internationally, women-headed households
and women-cultivated plots have produced lower yields and revenues (World Bank,
2001). Women are less efficient producers for a variety of reasons (Saito et al., 1994;
Quisumbing, 1994). However, in rural China, the earnings and productivity of farms
have not suffered with the feminization of agriculture (Zhang, 2006).
Although the government recognizes the phenomenon of the feminization of
agriculture and knows that women are becoming the poorest among the poor, it has
made little effort to do anything about this situation. The government has initiated
some poverty alleviation and related programs, but the cross-cutting nature of the
18. gender issues and the crucial roles women are playing in bio-diversity management,
food security, poverty alleviation and rural development have still not been fully
recognized and addressed.
IV.Policy implications and feasible policies
A study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1990 revealed
that in developing countries women provide 70% of agricultural labor, 60–80% of
labor for household food production, 100% for processing basic foodstuffs, 80% for
food storage and transport from farm to village, 90% for water and fuel-wood
collection for households (Uma Rani, 1999). Despite growing recognition of women’s
dominance over men in terms of use and management of natural resources, their
contribution is still undervalued ( The Hindu, 2004; WHO, 2000) as evidenced by the
perpetuation of gender-blind policies and programs.
Also, as aforementioned, the challenge for governments is to structure a response to
the fundamental changes taking place at global, national and local levels, and to
ensure that gender concerns are not lost in the flux of changing priorities. In order to
meet this challenge, it is therefore useful to examine previous efforts as well as learn
from past mistakes.
For China, the important policy implication, which could be withdrawn from the
formerly mentioned research, is that feminization of agriculture phenomenon matters
because of women’s limited access to productive assets and social capital for their
new roles of producers. It matters because women’s role in agriculture remains largely
19. unrecognized in policy, resource allocation and institutional support to women. it is
very clear that as feminization of agriculture has emerged, without compensating
measures, appropriate gender sensitive policies and public supporting services for
farming women, there will be a continuous degradation of the environment and the
natural resources as well as deterioration in rural women’s statuses. This, in turn,
will negatively affect the well-being of rural households, especially those women
headed ones that rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, and also have negative effect
on China’s sustainable agricultural and rural development.
Therefore, in the future, particular attention should be given to the government’s roles
and more appropriate and supportive policies, institutional settings, mechanism and
actions are needed to meet the needs and interests of the farming women and improve
the quality of their participation in marginal and unfavorable areas in China.
To be more specific, from the strategic perspective, gender mainstreaming, which is
the current international approach to advancing gender equality and equity in society,
should also be selected as the general strategy of policy makers in China.
Theoretically, gender mainstreaming, as a strategy, has developed out of a major shift
away from the WID (women in development) approach towards the GAD (gender and
development) approach. It focuses on the fact that women and men have different life
courses and that development policies affect them differently. It addresses these
differences by taking gender into account in development planning at all levels and in
all sectors. Its focus is less on providing equal treatment for men and women and
more on taking whatever steps are necessary to ensure that men and women benefit
20. equally. It recognizes that the empowerment of women can only be achieved by
taking into account the relationships between women and men. Practically, at the level
of national government, this strategy means to incorporate a gender perspective into
all policies, plans, programs and projects to ensure that these impact on women and
men in an equitable way. 9
From the tactical perspective, China could and should adopt the community-based
natural resource management (CBNRM) approach which is widely used by many
other Asia countries. Today, in developing countries all over the world, as rural
women rely heavily on natural resources for the survival of their families, the
deterioration in the natural resource base is threatening rural livelihoods. Due to
population pressure and lack of awareness, rural women tend to exploit land, water
and forest resources without considering the needs of future generations, thereby
running the risk of eventually becoming part of the vicious downward spiral of hunger,
poverty and suffering. However, there are many cases where communities have been
organized to practice sustainable use of available natural resources, as explained by
the community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approach. As a result,
first of all, one policy should be adopted by Chinese central and local governments is
to implement capacity-building of women through education, and through providing
user-friendly technologies and employment opportunities. Improved education of
rural women can play a key role not only in reversing the trend of unsustainable
exploitation of natural resources.
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21. The second policy should be adopted is to establish women’s group to increase
women’s currently limited opportunities to participate in manage-level agricultural
decision making process and to decrease the domination of men’s authority in
possessing land rights and making decisions. For example, women should be involved
in village level meetings to make or revise grassroots co-management agreements and
rules so that they could also reflect their ideas, perceptions and interests. Another
advantage of forming women’s group is that women could then have more
opportunities to cooperate, learn from each other, exchange experiences, and share
knowledge and information. Finally, the existence of the women’s group could also
encourage women's initiatives to protect land and environment according to
traditionally inherited knowledge and customs.
The final policy should be to make access to credit, better equipment and more
advanced technologies more available to women. This is feasible because currently, in
global level, the pressure to advance gender equality and equity, exerted through
documents such as the UNCED Agenda 21 which called for better access to all forms
of credit, access to property rights, and technology, has ensured that there are
sufficient budget lines and credit funds available for changes to take place and for
women’s farming to flourish equitably.
An existed example of these efforts is a project, coordinated by CCAP a leading
agricultural policy research institution that is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
CCAP project aims to identify technological and institutional options for developing
more effective linkages and mutually beneficial partnerships between the formal and
22. farmers' seed systems to enhance sustainable crop development and in situ or on-farm
management of genetic resources, and to bring direct benefits to poor maize producers.
At the same time, the project aims to strengthen women and men farmers' capacities
to manage agrobiodiversity and improve their livelihoods (CCAP 1999, 2003).
Moreover, there may be some lessons for the rest of the world on what policies and
institutions to help to empower women to gain equal access to land, open access to
credit as they becoming major players in agriculture so as to ensure rural development
as well as biodiversity in rural China.
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