Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation

Sugden, Fraser; Maskey, Niki; Clément, Floriane; Ramesh, Vidya; Philip, Anil; Rai, Ashok

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.008

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“…In the Kenyan example noted above, while women engaged in cultivation and some petty trade, men got involved in a host of insecure and often semi-legal activities (field notes: Nitya Rao, October 2015). Rather than seeing women and men as autonomous entities, working independently of each other, hence always constrained by the absence of independent, individualized resource control (Carr, 2008a;Sugden et al, 2014), we need to acknowledge their differentiated, but complementary roles, shaped by cultural values and social norms, in agriculture, building livelihoods, and shaping adaptation responses to climatic and other stresses.…”

Section: Deconstructing Vulnerability: Women As Victims?mentioning

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Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

Rao

Lawson

Raditloaneng

et al. 2017

Climate and Development

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Emerging and on-going research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered. Still, policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities' adaptive capacity largely fail to recognize the gendered nature of everyday realities and experiences. This paper interrogates some of the emerging evidence in selected semi-arid countries of Africa and Asia from a gender perspective, using water scarcity as an illustrative example. It emphasizes the importance of moving beyond the counting of numbers of men and women to unpacking relations of power, of inclusion and exclusion in decision-making, and challenging cultural beliefs that have denied equal opportunities and rights to differently positioned people, especially those at the bottom of economic and social hierarchies. Such an approach would make policy and practice more relevant to people's differentiated needs and responses.

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Section: Deconstructing Vulnerability: Women As Victims?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

Rao

Lawson

Raditloaneng

et al. 2017

Climate and Development

185

119

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“…The who, where, and when of vulnerability are determined by the combination of human, physical and political circumstances that shape the allocation of assets in society (Pelling and Uitto, 2001), which often change over time (McDowell and Hess, 2012;Sugden et al, 2014). In the case of smallholder farmers these circumstances may include soil conditions, access to markets, declining natural resources, and weakening of societal safety nets (Rurinda et al, 2014).…”

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How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective

Perez¹,

Jones

Kristjanson

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…Furthermore, land reform itself may strengthen livelihoods initially, but natural differentiation between richer and poorer cultivators may well increase inequality again over the longer term, particularly when one considers the rising costs of production and climate stress which is driving 'distress sales' of land (Sugden et al 2014). The demand for tenancy will, therefore, remain unless there is a radical transformation of the Nepalese economy, which will draw marginal farmers out of agriculture (Sugden and Gurung 2012).…”

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Landlordism, tenants and the groundwater sector: lessons from Tarai-Madhesh, Nepal

Sugden¹

2014

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The publications in this series cover a wide range of subjects-from computer modeling to experience with water user associations-and vary in content from directly applicable research to more basic studies, on which applied work ultimately depends. Some research reports are narrowly focused, analytical and detailed empirical studies; others are wide-ranging and synthetic overviews of generic problems.Although most of the reports are published by IWMI staff and their collaborators, we welcome contributions from others. Each report is reviewed internally by IWMI staff, and by external reviewers. The reports are published and distributed both in hard copy and electronically (www.iwmi.org) and where possible all data and analyses will be available as separate downloadable files. Reports may be copied freely and cited with due acknowledgment. About IWMIIWMI's mission is to provide evidence-based solutions to sustainably manage water and land resources for food security, people's livelihoods and the environment. IWMI works in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to develop scalable agricultural water management solutions that have a tangible impact on poverty reduction, food security and ecosystem health.

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Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation

Cited by 105 publications

References 22 publications

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective

Landlordism, tenants and the groundwater sector: lessons from Tarai-Madhesh, Nepal

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