Transforming Gender and Food Security in the Global South

326 Pages·2016·3.09 MB·English

by  Jemimah Njuki

Transforming Gender and
Food Security in the
Global South
Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides
empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions
of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are
conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of
gender-responsive programs on food security and gender equity, and addresses
diverse approaches to gender research and practice that range from descriptive
and analytical to strategic and transformative. The chapters draw on diverse
theoretical perspectives, including transformative learning, feminist theory,
deliberative democracy and technology adoption. As a result, they add
important conceptual and empirical material to a growing literature on the
challenges of gender equity in food production.
A unique feature of this book is the integration of both analytic and trans-
formative approaches to understanding gender and food security. The analytic
material shows how food security interventions enable women and men to
meet the long-term nutritional needs of their households, and to enhance
their economic position. The transformative chapters also document efforts
to build durable and equitable relationships between men and women,
addressing underlying social, cultural and economic causes of gender inequal-
ity. Taken together, these combined approaches enable women and men to
refect on gendered divisions of labour and resources related to food, and
to reshape these divisions in ways which beneft families and communities.
Jemimah Njuki is a senior program offcer in the Agriculture and Food
Security program at the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC), based in Nairobi, Kenya.
John R. Parkins is a professor in the Department of Resource Economics
and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada.
Amy Kaler is a professor in the Department of Sociology, University of
Alberta, Canada.
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To Paula, for her dedication to improving rural livelihoods through gender
transformative approaches with rigorous science and a deep sense of humanity,
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Paula died on 13 May 2015 in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the hotel
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Contents
Acronyms and abbreviations xi
Notes on contributors xv
I ntroduction – Gender, agriculture, and food security:
where are we? 1
JEMIMAH NJUKI, JOHN R. PARKINS, AMY KALER,
AND SARA AHMED
PART I
Measuring gender relations and women’s
empowerment 19
1 M easuring women’s empowerment in agriculture:
addressing the multidimensional nature of gender
dynamics in agriculture 21
MAUREEN MIRUKA, JEMIMAH NJUKI, LAURIE STARR,
ELIzABETH KRUGER, AND EMILY HILLENBRAND
PART II
From measurement to action 47
2 F rom capture to culture: space for mainstreaming
women in coastal aquaculture development in Sri Lanka 49
TIM DEJAGER AND CHAMILA JAYASINGHE
3 G ender and labour effciency in fnger millet
production in Nepal 76
RACHANA DEvKOTA, KAMAL KHADKA, HOM GARTAULA,
ASIS SHRESTHA, SWIKAR KARKI, KIRIT PATEL,
AND PASHUPATI CHAUDHARY
viii Contents
4 Teach a woman to fsh: encountering empowerment
in community fsh farming in Eastern India 96
RAJAKISHOR MAHANA AND DURAIRAJA RAMULU
PART III
Placing gender in local institutional contexts 115
5 C offee ceremonies, gender, and food security
in two Ethiopian vilages 117
JOANN JAFFE AND AMY KALER
6 A missed opportunity for research and development
interventions: gender and the forest food trade in
urban Cameroon 138
LAUREN Q. SNEYD
7 G ender and innovation in Peru’s native potato
market chains 160
SILvIA SARAPURA ESCOBAR, HELEN HAMBLY ODAME,
AND GRAHAM THIELE
PART IV
Approaches to transforming gender relations 187
8 F rom gender analysis to transforming gender
norms: using empowerment pathways to enhance
gender equity and food security in Tanzania 189
ALESSANDRA GALIè AND PAULA KANTOR
9 G ender transformative approaches with
socially and environmentally vulnerable groups:
indigenous fshers of the Bolivian Amazon 217
ALISON E. MACNAUGHTON, TIFFANIE K. RAINvILLE,
CLAUDIA I. COCA MéNDEz, ELAINE M. WARD,
JOHN M. WOJCIECHOWSKI, AND JOACHIM CAROLSFELD
10 “ Doing jenda deliberatively” in a participatory
agriculture–nutrition project in Malawi 241
RACHEL BEzNER KERR, ESTHER LUPAFYA, LIzzIE
SHUMBA, LAIFOLO DAKISHONI, RODGERS MSACHI,
ANITA CHITAYA, PAUL NKHONJERA, MWAPI MKANDAWIRE,
TINKANI GONDWE, AND ESTHER MAONA
Contents ix
11 G endered technology adoption and
household food security in semi-arid Eastern Kenya 260
ESTHER NJUGUNA, LEIGH BROWNHILL, ESTHER KIHORO,
LUTTA MUHAMMAD, AND GORDON M. HICKEY
C onclusion – Towards gender transformative
agriculture and food systems: where next? 283
JEMIMAH NJUKI, AMY KALER, AND JOHN R. PARKINS
Index 291