‘Because of poverty, we had to come together’: collective action for improved food security in rural Kenya and Uganda

Andersson, Elina; Gabrielsson, Sara

doi:10.1080/14735903.2012.666029

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“…Farmer's groups, community networks, credit groups and village councils are all seen to have a positive influence on adaptation (Andersson & Gabrielsson, 2012;Goulden, Naess, Vincent, & Adger, 2009;Reid & Vogel, 2006). Perhaps it is such insights that have contributed to a range of interventions focusing on collective action as a strategy to support community-level adaptation.…”

Section: Collective Action Voice and Decision-makingmentioning

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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: Collective Action Voice and Decision-makingmentioning

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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“…Similarly, migration is no longer as attractive to farmers as it used to be because the competition for unskilled work has increased between ruralites and the urban poor (field data, 2008-2010) as also noted by other scholars in similar sub-Saharan settings (Bryceson 2002;Cleaver 2005;Ellis and Freeman 2005). Intensification is still a possibility, but in the short term it demands an increase in the supply of labor and in the long term greater agricultural expertise to make management sustainable (Pretty et al 2011), both of which are currently in short supply in the communities we have studied (Andersson 2012). Hence.…”

Section: Seasonal Pattern Of Hardship and Copingmentioning

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Living without buffers—illustrating climate vulnerability in the Lake Victoria basin

2012

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Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity are essential, albeit theoretically vague, components of climate vulnerability. This has triggered debate surrounding how these factors can be translated into, and understood in, an empirical context subject to present and future harm. In this article, which draws on extensive fieldwork in the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya and Tanzania, we illustrate how exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity play out in the context of climate vulnerability and discuss how they interact in situ. Using a mixed methods approach including survey data, rainfall data and a suite of participatory methods, such as focus groups and interactive mapping of seasonal calendars, we identify how climate-induced stressors affect smallholder farmers' well-being and natural resources. Drawing on the seasonal calendar as a heuristic, and climate vulnerability terminology, we illustrate when, where and how these climate-induced stressors converge to constrain farmers' livelihoods. Our analysis indicates that farmers in the basin face a highly uncertain future with discernible, but differentiated, adaptation deficits due to recurring, and potentially worsening, patterns of hardship.

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“…They are joint enterprises for collective action which share the vision of improving their individual and their families´ livelihood through a joint routine of saving and farming (see also Singh 2015, Andersson andGabrielsson, 2012;Anyidoho, 2010). Labor pooling is at the basis of intergenerational learning.…”

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“…Women participating in saving groups and labor pooling during harvest time, a seasonal time scale, discuss how to sell their maize and black beans and how to generate profit from reselling sugar and tomatoes. Thus, their identity is materialized by their membership through learning in timed joint enterprises for collective action (see also Andersson and Gabrielsson, 2012). While this is a clear example of learning and of how identity is negotiated and reinforced through the groups, such instances are less common among the Maasais of Tanzania than the Marakwets of Kenya.…”

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“Women in groups can help each and learn from each other”: The role of homosocial practices within women’s social networks in building local gender contracts

Webster

Caretta

2016

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Feminist scholars struggle to articulate gender relations in different contexts. Using the concept of local gender contract -a place specific agreement of gender relations, we explore how women's networks challenge or shift gender contracts in their communities. Based on two empirical case studies of women´s groups from Eastern Africa and Thai migrants in Sweden, we show gender contracts are challenged through women's homosocial activities. We highlight tensions between gender contracts and the women's goals revealing a complicated process of assent and resistance. This study expands gender contract theoretically and provides a way to understand vulnerable women's activities.Keywords: local gender contract, homosociality, women's social networks, East Africa, Thai migrants, Sweden. Vol. 5 No. 3 October 2016 pp. 1072-1097 GÉNEROS -Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies ResumenLas académicas feministas tienen dificultades en articular las relaciones de género en diferentes contextos. Utilizando el concepto de contracto local de género -un acuerdo de relaciones de género especifico a un lugar, analizamos como los grupos de mujeres desafían o cambian los contractos en sus comunidades. Basado en dos casos de estudio de grupos de mujeres en África del Este y de mujeres tailandesas en Suecia, demostramos que los contractos de género han sido desafiados a través de las actividades homosociales de las mujeres. Resaltamos las tensiones entre los géneros y los objetivos de las mujeres revelando un proceso complicado de acuerdo y resistencia. El estudio amplía de forma teórica el concepto de contracto de género y presenta una manera de analizar las actividades de las mujeres vulnerables.Palabras clave: contrato local de género, homosocialidad, redes sociales femeninas, África de Este, inmigrantes tailandesas, Suecia GÉNEROS -Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(3)1074 n a dark cold windy November night in Stockholm, Thai women gather from across the city to celebrate Loy Kratong, the Thai festival of light. A Thai community organization has rented a hall to celebrate the event and share their community with family and friends. The event is open to all and approximately 100 people mill inside and outside the facility. The hall is organized in long tables to allow large groups to share meals while watching a showcase of Thai cultural events; dancing, boxing, among others performed on a stage. The highlight of the evening is a beauty pageant where ten women compete for the title. The event is interspersed throughout the other performances of the evening. The women are dressed beautifully in traditional Thai clothing, their hair is coiffed and their movements are graceful. They move across the stages elegantly and 'wai' the audience in a feminine and graceful manner. The audience, primarily Swedish men clap and cheer for their favorite women. They buy roses, at 5 kronor (0.6 USD) a piece, to cast their votes towards the winner. The MC, a Thai man, brings humor to the evening by pretending to be a conte...

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‘Because of poverty, we had to come together’: collective action for improved food security in rural Kenya and Uganda

Cited by 54 publications

References 44 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

Living without buffers—illustrating climate vulnerability in the Lake Victoria basin

“Women in groups can help each and learn from each other”: The role of homosocial practices within women’s social networks in building local gender contracts

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