Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming

ISBN-13: 9781138588929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Leigh Brownhill; Esther Njuguna; Kimberly L. Bothi

Opis

Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems.

Recenzje

"Each of this volume's ten essays is part of an umbrella project of McGill University and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization. Collectively, the works weave a common theme about the intersection of agro-trends in developing countries, resilience in an environment of general food scarcity, and the dynamics of gender as a marker in such an environment. The essays further explore the latter two themes, asking to what extent and how women’s roles and activities in the food production chain reinforce resilience, and how such a force can be strengthened by enhancing various aspects of gender dynamics to further build and grow the chain. The discussion of these qualitative studies is understandably quite dense, with the focus less on agricultural practice per se, and more on the sociology and anthropology of agricultural interactions, some concentrated (seed gathering and preservation and small livestock enterprises), some diffuse (financial and regulatory schemes), but all focusing on how gender plays a role in building resilience in a relatively food-scarce environment. This work is recommended for advanced students and specialists and will be a nice addition to collections in anthropology, gender studies, and rural sociology.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals."
L. S. Cline, Missouri State University - CHOICE

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Gender, Food Security and Resilience in Kenya  Leigh Brownhill and Esther M. Njuguna  2. A Participatory and Integrated Agricultural Extension Approach to Enhancing Farm Resilience through Innovation and Gender Equity  Lutta W. Muhammad, Immaculate N. Maina, Bernard Pelletier, and Gordon M. Hickey  3. Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Social Networks and Agricultural Innovation in Two Smallholder Farming Communities in Machakos County, Kenya  Colleen M. Eidt, Gordon M. Hickey, and Bernard Pelletier  4. Land to Feed My Grandchildren: Grandmothers’ Challenge to Access Land Resources in Semi-Arid Kenya  June Y. T. Po and Zipporah Bukania  5. Gendered Food and Seed Producing Traditions for Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya  Megan Mucioki, Timothy Johns, and Samuel Kimathi Mucioki  6. Banking on Change: An Ethnographic Exploration into Rural Finance as a Gendered Resilience Practice among Smallholders  Carly James and June Y.T. Po  7. Nested Economies: Gendered Small-livestock Enterprise for Household Food Security  Leigh Brownhill, Esther M. Njuguna, Erick Mungube Ouma, Malo Nzioka, and Esther Kihoro  8. Women Second: Reflecting on Gendered Resilience within Formal Regulatory Policies for Forest-based Livelihood Activities in Kenya  Stephanie Shumsky, Kimberly L. Bothi, Elizabeth Nambiro, and Patrick Maundu  9. Accountability and Citizen Participation in Devolved Agricultural Policy-making: Insights from Makueni County, Kenya  Leigh Brownhill, Tony Moturi, and Gordon M. Hickey  10. The Resilience Umbrella: A Conceptual Tool for Building Gendered Resilience in Agricultural Research, Practice and Policy  Leigh Brownhill and Esther M. Njuguna