Identifying Gender-Sensitive Agroforestry Options: Methodological Considerations From the Field

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Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: where are we and where should we be going?

“…The scaling out that will make these approaches more valuable is starting to happen. For example, in the Peruvian Andes, the gender inclusion toolbox was applied in a study that compared the benefits to men and women from various agroforestry practices as options for adaptation to climate change (Mathez-Stiefel, Ayquipa-Valenzuela, Corrales-Quispe, Rosales-Richard, & Valdivia-Valdes, 2016). In Colombia, a local partner NGO of CCAFS called EcoHabitats recently implemented an approach called 'Participatory Local Adaptation Planning with a Gender Focus' that initially added the gender focus for CCAFS sites, but are now expanding to other (non-CCAFS) sites in northern Colombia.…”

“…These include measuring outputs such as the number of views and downloads of papers, briefs, training materials, etc. Follow up research on outcomes, such as a recent knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey carried out by IFPRI (Bryan, Bernier, Espinal, & Ringler, 2017), and similar studies in Latin America (Espinal & Witkowski, 2015;Mathez-Stiefel et al, 2016) focus on what approaches stakeholders are using to integrate gender into their work, how research materials are being used, and what knowledge and capacity gaps remain. This research shows that greater collaboration between and among research organizations and implementing partners is needed to share knowledge, tools, and approaches; and build capacity on gender within key organizations, such as government agencies, to ensure that gender is integrated in climate change adaptation and resilience programs.…”

Research Priorities for the Conservation and Sustainable Governance of Andean Forest Landscapes

“…generate locally relevant and actionable knowledge about AFL, their ecosystems, and customary resource management institutions (Mathez-Stiefel, Ayquipa-Valenzuela, et al 2016). This should include the generation of future scenarios and pathways based on different actors' needs and priorities, including conservation, development, mitigation, and adaptation, in contexts where it is expected that climate change will pose further challenges for Andean livelihoods (Postigo et al 2008;Valdivia et al 2010;Postigo 2014).…”

“…5.5. Assess the barriers to the participation of different actors, in particular women and other marginalized groups, in bodies of environmental governance (eg protected area management committees and municipal and regional environmental commissions) (Salas Laines 2011; Mathez-Stiefel, Ayquipa-Valenzuela, et al 2016).…”

Ramsar Convention and the Wise Use of Wetlands: Rethinking Inclusion

“…Sellamuttu et al (2012) emphasize that key to managing wetlands sustainably is to implement wise use on the ground through the effective engagement of local communities and by ensuring equity and transparency when making trade-offs between wetland users. However, evidence from outside the wetlands domain shows that without acting on the structural barriers to gendered inequalities, it is problematic to assume that strategic alliances and collective action in relation to natural resource access and use can be established between diverse groups of men and women, within and between households (de la Torre-Castro 2019, Harrison and Watson 2012, Mathez-Stiefel et al 2016, Rao 2017, Ravera et al 2016, Rist et al 2007. Strategies for mitigating change, particularly conservation and adaptation, often reinforce structures and systems of exclusion (Kaijser and Kronsell 2014) when they do not coherently reflect underlying and implicit power patterns locally and at scale (Winker and Degele 2011).…”