Women are carrying out more labor on farms.
In a recent literature review focusing on agrarian societies in the drylands, ICARDA scientist Dina Najjar and Ph.D. student Jemima Baada at Western University in Canada investigate how outmigration of men affect women s roles in agriculture, as well as the wider effect in different contexts of the dry areas (rangeland, irrigated production and rainfed).
The study revealed that women are carrying out more labor, both on and off farms, and that feminization of agrarian labor may reduce women’s earnings at the detriment to household incomes and make them more susceptible to economic, social, and cultural marginalization.
Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide Begin
There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas, such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale. The overall aim is to promote the responsible governance of forest tenure so that it serves the interests of both women and men of all backgrounds.
A new practitioner’s guide prepared by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) authors with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and other donors explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in develo
By Dr. Girma Kassie.
A recently published ICARDA study investigating rural farmers willingness to pay for carefully identified livestock market facilities has revealed what services are the most valued.
In Ethiopia, about 120 livestock market centers are officially recognized by the government and agricultural institutions. Yet, these markets often do not provide basic amenities such as watering, feeding, resting, and quarantine facilities. Recognizing the vast, unexploited economic potential of the livestock sector, the government has renewed its effort to make the marketing system more efficient and accessible through enhanced infrastructure,The research addresses the lack of empirical evidence on farmers interest in livestock market services, and their willingness to pay (WTP) for them.
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