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DISCUSSION No. 130 • FSN Forum digest No. 1247
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Transforming gender relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment: benefits, challenges and trade-offs for
improving nutrition outcomes
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until 15 July 2016
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Dear Members,
Please find the update on the discussion on
Transforming gender relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment:
benefits, challenges and trade-offs for improving nutrition outcomes.
Today's comments bring up several experiences aimed to empower women and reflections on how to move forward in improving
women's status. How can stronger women agency improve nutritional outcomes? What are the most suitable policies and strategies to help achieve improved nutrition in agricultural households, tackling issues
of women's time, gender divisions of work, involvement of women in agriculture and agribusiness value chains?
While the focus of the
LANSA Research Programme is South Asia, we are looking for experiences and good practices from all regions.
For a full overview of the discussion including the facilitator's feedback please refer to the
FSN Forum webpage. Comments are welcome in
English,
Arabic,
Chinese,
French,
Russian and
Spanish (please check the webpage in any of these languages).
Looking forward to further inputs!
Your FSN Forum team
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CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
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Zhanhuan
Shang, School of Life Sciences, Lanhzhou University, China
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Zhanhuan shares with us an article that studies women’s contribution to carbon sequestration versus men’s in rural areas
of Tibet. He suggests using the fact that women contribute more to carbon sequestration than men to guide funds from carbon trading towards women’s empowerment.
Read the contribution
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Brad
Wilson, United States of America
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Brad blames inequalities on current paradigms of large scale agriculture that are detrimental to smaller scale family
farming. Women’s issues have to be included as another factor for the push towards fair trade.
Read the contribution
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Paul
Rigterink, Potomac Technical Advisors, United States of America
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Paul follows up on some questions asked by Nigel Poole, one of the discussion facilitators. He goes into more detail
on how poultry production was introduced to Afghan women and what were the difficulties they faced.
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Myriam
del Carmen Salazar Villareal, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
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Myriam points out the ill effects of patriarchal systems in Latin America. For her, agriculture started when women started
keeping seeds but has now escalated to a system where women and young people not only have lower financial incentives but also worse health and nutritional situations.
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Ann
Steensland, Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan
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Ann brings up the results of a case study relevant to women’s empowerment in India, where they were taught more efficient
ways to cultivate rice. After they struggled to get their households to try these new techniques, the improvements were made clear and the whole village benefited.
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