Gender and agrobiodiversity: Introduction to the Special Issue

Momsen, Janet Henshall

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00272.x

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“…As pointed out by Kainer and Duryea (1992), males and females have different skills and knowledge about natural resources, usually as a direct result of set specific responsibili-341 ties within each household. Other studies highlight these variations in relation to the different roles that each one fulfills in society (Camou-Guerrero et al 2008, Momsen 2007, Voeks 2007. This study documented how the activities that males and females perform influence the knowledge and use of plants.…”

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Traditional Knowledge in a Rural Community in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil: Age and gender patterns and their implications for plant conservation

Arévalo‐Marín

Lima

Palma

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Traditional Knowledge in a Rural Community in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil: Age and gender patterns and their implications for plant conservation

Arévalo‐Marín

Lima

Palma

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“…Interests in and the analysis of gendering in livelihood diversification are expanding significantly and build upon vibrant existing research traditions in household-level analysis in agricultural, resource, and development economics and sociology and also in such fields as geography and anthropology (e.g., [172,[184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191][192]), as well as interdisciplinary approaches such as feminist political ecology (FPE; [53,54,193]). Gendered resource access and knowledge systems are integral to the resource use and agri-food systems of smallholders amid livelihood diversification and global changes.…”

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Toward the Integrated Framework Analysis of Linkages among Agrobiodiversity, Livelihood Diversification, Ecological Systems, and Sustainability amid Global Change

Zimmerer

Vanek

2016

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Scientific and policy interest in the biological diversity of agriculture (agrobiodiversity) is expanding amid global socioeconomic and environmental changes and sustainability interests. The majority of global agrobiodiversity is produced in smallholder food-growing. We use meta-analyses in an integrated framework to examine the interactions of smallholder agrobiodiversity with: (1) livelihood processes, especially migration, including impacts on agrobiodiversity as well as the interconnected resource systems of soil, water, and uncultivated habitats; and (2) plant-soil ecological systems. We hypothesize these interactions depend on: (1) scope of livelihood diversification and type resource system; and (2) plant residues and above-/belowground component ecological specificity. Findings show: (1) livelihood diversification is linked to varied environmental factors that range from rampant degradation to enhancing sustainability; and (2) significant ecological coupling of aboveground and soil agrobiodiversity (AGSOBIO assemblages). The environmental impacts of livelihood interactions correspond to variation of diversification (migration, on-farm diversification) and resource system (i.e., agrobiodiversity per se, soil, water). Our findings also reveal mutually dependent interactions of aboveground and soil agrobiodiversity. Results identify livelihood diversification-induced reduction of environmental resource quality with lagged agrobiodiversity declines as a potentially major avenue of global change. Our contribution re-frames livelihood interactions to include both agrobiodiversity and ecological systems. We discuss this integrated social-environmental re-framing through the proposed spatial geographic schema of regional agri-food spaces with distinctive matrices of livelihood strategies and relations to biodiversity and resources. This re-framing can be used to integrate livelihood, agrobiodiversity, and ecological analysis and to guide policy and scientific approaches for sustainability in agriculture and food-growing.

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“…The preferences for crops that provide nutritional and marketable goods, important for family well-being, were all expressed by women farmers in this study. There is evidence in the literature that men and women have different roles in the household, particularly in the provisioning of care to children (Quisumbing 1996(Quisumbing , 2003 and they often have different priorities in the types of crops they grow, how they manage crop and varietal diversity, and allocation of household resources (Momsen 2007). But there is also evidence that the number of crops and varieties households decide to plant is not gender specific (Brush 2000).…”

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Assessing the value of diverse cropping systems under a new agricultural policy environment in Rwanda

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In Rwanda, farmers' traditional farming systems based on intercropping and varietal mixtures are designed to meet a variety of livelihood objectives and withstand risks associated with fluctuation in market and agro-climatic conditions. However, these mixed systems have been disappearing since 2008 when government mandated intensification strategies. In this paper we use a mixed methods approach to evaluate intercropping and sole cropping systems against farmers' criteria for success: yield, market value, contribution to nutritional quality, and land-use efficiency. We used qualitative interviews to understand the criteria by which farmers evaluate cropping systems, and data from crop trials to assess common bean ((Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and maize (Zea mays L.)) sole crops and intercrops against those criteria. We found that an improved intercropping system tends to outperform the government-mandated system of alternating sole-cropped bean and maize season-by-season, on all four of the criteria tested. Although Rwanda's agricultural intensification strategy aims to improve rural livelihoods through agricultural modernization, it fails to acknowledge the multiple and currently non-replaceable benefits that diverse cropping systems provide, particularly food security and risk management. Agricultural policies need to be based on a better understanding of smallholders' objectives and constraints. Efforts to improve farming systems require innovative and inclusive approaches that enable adaptation to the socio-ecological context.

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Gender and agrobiodiversity: Introduction to the Special Issue

Cited by 31 publications

References 16 publications

Traditional Knowledge in a Rural Community in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil: Age and gender patterns and their implications for plant conservation

Traditional Knowledge in a Rural Community in the Semi-Arid Region of Brazil: Age and gender patterns and their implications for plant conservation

Toward the Integrated Framework Analysis of Linkages among Agrobiodiversity, Livelihood Diversification, Ecological Systems, and Sustainability amid Global Change

Assessing the value of diverse cropping systems under a new agricultural policy environment in Rwanda

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