Access and use of weather and climate information by women and men farmers: Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture qualitative evaluation preliminary findings

The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project has sought to build capacity of the country’s national institutions to provide climate information tailored to the needs of the agriculture sector, deliver climate services to farmers across Rwanda’s 30 districts, and help them to effectively use the information to manage climate risk. Project interventions include: training Farmer Promoters, who are part of Rwanda’s national agricultural extension service, to guide farmers in the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) process (Dorward et al., 2015); and organizing farmers into Radio Listeners’ Clubs that meet weekly to participate in climate services radio programs and discuss management responses

Gendered perspectives of trees on farms in Nicaragua: Considerations for agroforestry, coffee cultivation, and climate change

Due to gender-specific roles and responsibilities, men and women face varying challenges and opportunities to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts. It is particularly important to take into account the ways that men and women engage with tree resources in order to develop both equitable and effective interventions and strategies, recognizing that agroforestry is an important element of these. For instance, agroforestry is often included among the recommended climate-smart agricultural practices for high value tree crops, like coffee. The paper analyzes household level socioeconomic data collected in 2015 within a Climate-Smart Village of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in Tuma La Dalia, Nicaragua, where smallholder shade coffee production is a substantial economic activity. The area is also part of a Landscape Observatory of the CGIAR Research Program in Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). The survey instrument developed is based on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEIA). From 271 households, a total of 493 surveys were carried out with adult men and women primary decision-makers. The intra-household survey collected data related to agricultural and agroforestry activities, and sex-disaggregated data on decision-making. The report provides initial insights into the uses and importance that women and men associate with trees on farms, as well as their participation in decision-making on agroforestry activities, in order to support the development of gender-sensitive climate change interventions focused on high value tree crops. In particular, findings suggest that women associate a greater number of household uses with on-farm trees than men. Furthermore, women may be more prone to give importance to fruit trees in comparison to men. Results also demonstrate differences in women’s and men’s perceptions of decision-making processes concerning trees on farms: women recognize their participation more than men, particularly when it concerns fruit trees and planting, as opposed to tree management

Coffee and cocoa value chains: Gender dynamics in Peru and Nicaragua

The present report assesses women’s and men’s participation in coffee and cocoa value chains in Latin America in order to identify key considerations and next steps for the development of research, policy and practice on value chain upgrading for enhanced smallholder prosperity. In particular, the report analyzes the differential roles that women and men play and the benefits they perceive from their participation in coffee and cocoa value chains. It also considers the role of producer organizations in limiting or enhancing women’s participation and benefits from coffee and cocoa value chains. The report first reviews existing studies of gender and coffee and cocoa value chains in Latin American countries in order to identify principal trends; then, the paper focuses on Peru and Nicaragua as two country cases. In general, the report demonstrates that while factors such as labor burdens, access to productive resources, and socio-cultural norms can limit women’s participation in and returns from coffee and cocoa value chains in comparison to that of men, varied initiatives have sought to address these restricting conditions via producer organizations. The extent and circumstances of their success in advancing gender equality in coffee and cocoa value chains will be an important area for future analysis

Day 1: Introduction to Gender. What is gender? ¿Qué es género?

Presentation on the three day workshop on 'What is gender', 'Intersectionalities: Race, Gender, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Religion' and 'Gender in our research'. Created by Tatiana Gumucio and Molly Green

Checklist: Gender Considerations for Climate Services and Safety Nets

“Climate services” refers to the “production, translation, transfer, and use of climate knowledge and information in climate-informed decision making and climate-smart policy and planning” (Climate Services Partnership). Climate services can be a critical means of resiliency-building for smallholder farmers. However, due to gender-related factors, women and men can face differing challenges and opportunities to access climate-related information as well as using it to improve management and benefitting from those improved management decisions. To ensure equal distribution of benefits and promote gender equality, it is critical that food security and climate-resiliency initiatives take into account gender considerations from the earliest planning stages. CCAFS has developed a checklist to guide the consideration of gender issues in climate services projects

Guía para la integración del enfoque de género en políticas agropecuarias y de cambio climático en América Latina

En este documento se sugieren cinco pasos para integrar el enfoque de género en las políticas públicas agropecuarias y de cambio climático. Cada uno de los pasos representa un momento en la formulación, entendiendo que el enfoque de género debe estar incluido en todas las etapas del proceso. Así mismo, se indica a los tomadores de decisiones cuáles deben ser los resultados que se deben conseguir al tomar en cuenta las recomendaciones para cada una de dichas etapas

Avances en la inclusión de intereses y necesidades de mujeres rurales en políticas públicas agropecuarias y de cambio climático: el caso de Colombia

La agricultura en Colombia es considerada una de las principales actividades económicas. De los 48 millones de habitantes que tiene el país, 24% vive en áreas rurales y 3,4 millones de ellos están activamente empleados en la producción agrícola primaria. De estos, 75% son hombres y 25% son mujeres4. Ahora bien, el 80% de las tierras en Colombia está en manos del 14% de los propietarios. Según cifras del Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, la concentración de la tierra en el país en términos del Gini de tierras es de 0,84 para el año 20096. A esta evidente desigualdad en la concentración de la propiedad de la tierra se le suma que dicha propiedad tiende a ser informal. Así mismo, con unas condiciones muy particulares de despojo y reconfiguración de tierras y territorios en el marco de un conflicto armado de más de sesenta años, de una constante lucha por la explotación legal e ilegal de los recursos naturales y de la falta de un sistema de información actualizado de catastro. El género se refiere a roles, responsabilidades, derechos, relaciones e identidades de hombres y mujeres que se definen o atribuyen dentro de una sociedad8. Para efectos de este documento, se hará referencia a las relaciones de género en contextos rurales productivos, es decir, cómo se relacionan mujeres y hombres en el hogar, en la producción agropecuaria, en el acceso y administración de los recursos y en los procesos de toma de decisión en un contexto dado, con el fin de comprender necesidades e intereses de mujeres y hombres y la importancia de que éstos se tomen en cuenta en políticas públicas agropecuarias y de cambio climático

Género y Agricultura en el Perú: Inclusión de intereses y necesidades de hombres y mujeres en la formulación de políticas públicas

Perú tiene una población de treinta millones de personas de las que el 22% vive en zonas rurales. Mujeres y hombres juegan roles esenciales en el ámbito rural del país pues ambos son productores, administradores de recursos, garantes de la seguridad alimentaria, tomadores de decisión y cuidadores de la biodiversidad. Sin embargo, las mujeres rurales no tienen el mismo acceso a recursos productivos y a espacios de toma de decisiones que los hombres, lo que implica una brecha de género en la producción. Si las mujeres tuvieran el mismo acceso a los recursos, se reduciría entre un 12 y un 17% el número de personas que no logran satisfacer sus necesidades alimentarias básicas. El género se refiere a roles, responsabilidades, derechos, relaciones e identidades de hombres y mujeres que se definen o atribuyen dentro de una sociedad. En este documento en particular, se hará referencia a las relaciones de género en contextos rurales productivos, es decir, a cómo hombres y mujeres se relacionan en el hogar, en la producción agropecuaria, en el acceso y administración de los recursos y en los procesos de toma de decisión