SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Sheil, Douglas; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR);Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC);School of Environmental Science and Management Southern Cross University ; douglassheil@itfc.org; Padmanaba, Michael; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); M.Padmanaba@cgiar.org; Sadjudin, Ermayanti; Conservation International; ermayanti@conservation.org.

People everywhere experience changes and events that impact their lives. Knowing how they perceive, react, and adapt to climatic changes and events is helpful in developing strategies to support adaptation to climate change. Mamberamo in Papua, Indonesia, is a sparsely populated watershed of 7.8 million hectares possessing rich tropical forests. Our study compares scientific and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on climate, and analyzes how local people in Mamberamo perceive and react to climatic variations. We compared meteorological data for the region with local views gathered through focus group discussions and interviews in six villages. We explored the local significance of seasonality, climate variability, and climate change. Mamberamo is...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Adaptive strategy; Coping mechanism; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; Gender; Seasonality; Traditional ecological knowledge.

Ano: 2013

Good year, bad year: changing strategies, changing networks? A two-year study on seed acquisition in northern Cameroon

Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America

Analysis of seed exchange networks at a single point in time may reify sporadic relations into apparently fixed and long-lasting ones. In northern Cameroon, where environment is not only strongly seasonal but also shows unpredictable interannual variation, farmers’ social networks are flexible from year to year. When adjusting their strategies, Tupuri farmers do not systematically solicit the same partners to acquire the desired propagules. Seed acquisitions documented during a single cropping season may thus not accurately reflect the underlying larger social network that can be mobilized at the local level. To test this hypothesis, we documented, at the outset of two cropping seasons (2010 and 2011), the relationships through which seeds were...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Agrobiodiversity; Climate variability; Gender; Kinship relationships; Longitudinal network analysis; Seed exchange networks.

Ano: 2016

Mwangi, Esther; Center for International Forestry Research; e.mwangi@cgiar.org; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; International Food Policy Research Institute; r.meinzen-dick@cgiar.org; Sun, Yan; International Food Policy Research Institute; y.sun@cgiar.org.

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Forest management; Gender; Sustainability; User groups.

Ano: 2011

Social organization influences the exchange and species richness of medicinal plants in Amazonian homegardens

Howard, Patricia L.; Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University; Centre for Biocultural Diversity Studies, University of Kent; Patricia.Howard@wur.nl.

Medicinal plants provide indigenous and peasant communities worldwide with means to meet their healthcare needs. Homegardens often act as medicine cabinets, providing easily accessible medicinal plants for household needs. Social structure and social exchanges have been proposed as factors influencing the species diversity that people maintain in their homegardens. Here, we assess the association between the exchange of medicinal knowledge and plant material and medicinal plant richness in homegardens. Using Tsimane’ Amazonian homegardens as a case study, we explore whether social organization shapes exchanges of medicinal plant knowledge and medicinal plant material. We also use network centrality measures to evaluate people’s location...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Exchange networks; Gender; Plant diversity; Social networks analysis; Tropical homegardens; Tsimane&#8217.

Ano: 2016

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Conflict Management in Multiple Resource Regimes: A Case of the Southwestern Highlands of Uganda

Sanginga, Pascal C; International Centre for Tropical Agriculture -CIAT; p.sanginga@cgiar.org; Kamugisha, Rick N; Africa Highlands Initiative; rnkamugisha@yahoo.com; Martin, Andrienne M; Natural Resources Institute; A.M.Martin@greenwich.ac.uk.

Increasingly, social capital, defined as shared norms, trust, and the horizontal and vertical social networks that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutually beneficial collective action, is seen as an important asset upon which people rely to manage natural resources and resolve conflicts. This paper uses empirical data from households and community surveys and case studies, to examine the role, strengths, and limits of social capital in managing conflicts over the use and management of natural resources. We inventoried over 700 cases ranging from conflicts between multiple resource users to supra-community conflicts between local communities concerns for better livelihoods and national/international concerns for environment conservation....

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Bylaws; Conflicts; Gender; Highlands; Natural resources management; Social capital; Synergy; Uganda..

Ano: 2007

Women and Children First: the Gendered and Generational Social-ecology of Smaller-scale Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador and Northern Norway

Neis, Barbara; Memorial University of Newfoundland; bneis@mun.ca; Power, Nicole G.; Memorial University of Newfoundland; npower@mun.ca.

The resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed and developing countries has been used to provide lessons to conventional managers regarding ways to transition toward a social-ecological approach to understanding and managing fisheries. We contribute to the understanding of the relationship between management and the resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed countries by looking at these dynamics in the wake of the shock of stock collapse and fisheries closures in two contexts: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and northern Norway. We revisit and update previous research on the gendered effects of the collapse and closure of the Newfoundland and Labrador northern cod fishery and the closure of the Norwegian cod fishery in the early 1990s and...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Gender; Resilience; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological approach; Youth.

Ano: 2013

The Dynamics of Social Capital in Influencing Use of Soil Management Options in the Chinyanja Triangle of Southern Africa

Njuki, Jemimah M; International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); J.Njuki@cgiar.org; Mapila, Mariam T; Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria; maleytata@yahoo.com; Zingore, Shamie; Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT; S.Zingore@cgiar.org; Delve, Robert; Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT; R.Delve@cgiar.org.

Social capital has become a critical issue in agricultural development as it plays an important role in collective action, such as, management of common resources and collective marketing. Whilst literature exists on the role of social capital in the use and adoption of improved agricultural technology, such literature is fraught with issues of the measurement of social capital beyond membership of farmers in groups. We hypothesized that different types of social capital influence the adoption of soil management options differently. This study looked at the measurement of social capital, differentiating between the main types of social capital and employed factor analysis to aggregate indicators of social capital into bonding, bridging, and linking social...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Gender; Smallholder farmers; Social capital; Soil management.

Ano: 2008

Social learning by whom? Assessing gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance

Egunyu, Felicitas; University of Saskatchewan; felicitas.egunyu@usask.ca; Reed, Maureen G; University of Saskatchewan; maureen.reed@usask.ca.

Collaborative forest governance enables forest-based communities access to and management responsibilities for forestry resources. Researchers argue that processes that enable social learning have the potential to contribute to the sustainable management of forests by engaging local people, helping them identify their collective needs and gain access to resource entitlements, and encouraging them to learn about and implement different management options. Although there is considerable attention to gender in the literature on collaborative forestry, particularly in developing countries, there is relatively little attention to gender in the social learning literature. Furthermore, there is almost no attention to these issues in postindustrial countries. Our...

Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports

Palavras-chave: Collaborative forest management agreement; Community forest; Forest-based communities; Gender; Participation; Social learning.

Ano: 2015

Cocreation, validation and feedback: innovation in the e-book Women in coffee in Brazil.

MELLO, A. A. C. de; ARZABE, C.; VIDAL, W. C. L.; FRANCO, P. C. R.; HAMMES, V. S.; ALVES, H. M. R..

This chapter presents actions of Embrapa that contribute especially to two targets: "5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere [...] 5.B) Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women" (United Nations, 2020).

Challenges and perspectives.

Palavras-chave: Mulher; Igualdade de Genero; Mulher Rural; Rural women; Women in agriculture; Gender.

Ano: 2020

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1122158

ARZABE, C.; COSTA, V. C.; ALVES, H. M. R.; MARTINS, A. L. da S.; BUENO, Y. M..

Women have a fundamental role in maintaining life and productive activities that promote social equality, environmental justice and sustainable development. Among the challenges faced by them are the invisibility of their work, violence and discrimination in the countryside and institutions, the restriction of access to land and credit, and the difficulty of accessing public policies. There are numerous initiatives of the Brazilian government to promote gender equality and women's autonomy, culminating in various public policies. However, the cultural and paradigm shift needed to value, recognize and empower women in the countryside, in forests and in cities, requires that these policies be transformed into state policies, so that they continue regardless...

Situação da mulher no Brasil, assimetrias e esforços na Embrapa e na agricultura.

Palavras-chave: Igualdade de Genero; Mulher; Mulher Rural; Gender; Women in agriculture.

Ano: 2020

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1122159

ARZABE, C.; MARTINS, A. L. da S..

Reduzir as diferenças de gênero no mercado de trabalho permitiria que 204 milhões de pessoas a mais entrassem na força de trabalho global até 2025. Esse incremento poderia gerar um aumento de 3,9% no produto interno bruto (PIB) mundial. Uma grande parte dos empregos (162,4 milhões ou 62%) seria gerada em países emergentes, em virtude do seu tamanho relativo e do fato de que possuem as maiores disparidades de gênero (Mujeres..., 2017). Entre outros fatores, a ampliação da presença das mulheres em postos de direção, espaços de poder e de decisão dos governos, nos espaços de controle social das políticas públicas, no parlamento, nos partidos políticos, nos movimentos sociais, nos sindicatos, nas cooperativas, no meio acadêmico e no acesso às profissões tidas...

Status of women in Brazil, disparities and efforts at Embrapa and in agriculture.

Palavras-chave: Mulher; Igualdade de Genero; Agricultura; Women in agriculture; Gender.

Ano: 2018

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/1100786

ARZABE, C.; MARTINS, A. L. da S..

Reducing gender gaps in the labor market would allow an additional 204 million people to enter the global workforce by 2025. This increase could lead to a 3.9% increase in world gross domestic product (GDP). A large part of the jobs (162.4 million or 62%) would be generated in emerging countries, due to their relative size and the fact that they have the greatest gender disparities (Mujeres, 2017). Among other factors, the expansion of the presence of women in positions of management, spaces of power and decision of the governments, in the spaces of social control of the public policies, in the parliament, in the political parties, in the social movements, in the unions, in the cooperatives, in the academic world and in access to professions considered to...