CGIAR GENDER Platform COVID-19 grants
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Item Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on cross-border fish traders in Malawi and Zambia(Brief, 2024-02-29) Mudege, Netsayi; Chepchirchir, Ruth; Kakwasha, KeaganThis policy brief is based on a comprehensive study conducted in Zambia and Malawi to understand the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on informal cross-border fish trade. The study demonstrates the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on female traders. Measures implemented to mitigate the health impacts of COVID-19 exacerbated existing gender disparities, imposing heightened obstacles such as restricted mobility and increased market barriers for women. Gender emerges as a pivotal mediator, shaping responses to the pandemic’s impacts and accentuating unique challenges for women in this sector. The study advocates for targeted investments to promote gender equality and resilient value chains, emphasizing the need for tailored strategies that address specific challenges that female traders face.Item Gendered implications of polluted drainage water use in agri-food value chains in Egypt: current context and practical recommendations(Brief, 2023-10-31) Joshi, Deepa; Dessouki, Amina; Abdelwahab, NouraWater management in Egypt presents unique challenges. Being waterscarce, the country needs to use its limited freshwater reserves efficiently and effectively, particularly for irrigation, which accounts for over 70% of the total freshwater availability. Egypt has a network of irrigation canals and water-reuse drains that were built since the introduction of cotton cultivation in the colonial era to enable agricultural drainage and the reuse of water for irrigation. This facilitated expansion of the cultivated area with a view to improving food security and income. However, the design of efficient water reuse for irrigation does not come without attendant challenges. With more and more farmers coming to rely on polluted drainage water for irrigation, an alarming inconsistency in the quality of treated drainage water is now evident (Ashour et al. 2021). The focus of our study, which was funded by the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, was to understand the gendered implications of these changes and challenges. Adopting a feminist political ecology approach, we analyze the gendered power dynamics within productive, irrigated agriculture, focusing on the everyday lived experiences of diverse groups of women, farmers and irrigators.Item Social reproduction: the sidelined aspect in gender and agricultural research(Journal Article, 2023-08-31) Kawarazuka, Nozomi; Hoa, P.T.; Huyen, L.T.T; Trang, B.; Achandi, Esther L.Introduction: This study explores women’s agribusiness by employing feminist theories to gain an understanding of the gender dimension of business beyond economic value, including non-material and non-market aspects associated with social reproduction. Methods: We conducted fieldwork between July and October 2021 in Vietnam through in-depth interviews with 16 women entrepreneurs in towns on the border with China, who engage in livestock-trading, and in the Central Highlands, who engage in domestic and international horticultural trade. Results: Our findings confirm that women entrepreneurs manage their business, family, and family relations together as one consolidated commitment in flexible, informal, and creative ways. Research focusing solely on economic analyses obscures not only women’s hidden labor and time in the household that enable men to dominate agribusiness, but also women’s resistance to male-privileged agribusiness. Discussion: Positioning social reproduction at the center of women’s economic activities enables researchers to have a full picture of how male-privileged agri-food systems are sustained, which is the first step towards disrupting existing inequalities in agri-food systems.Item Staying alive: Navigating water, gender and poverty inequalities in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt(Blog Post, 2022-10-16) Joshi, Deepa; Lahham, Nisreen; Dessouki, AminaThe blog is on the results and findings of a CGIAR GENDER Platform supported project linked to the IWMI’s Rewater-Mena project aimed that analyzed the gender-power dynamics of irrigation at the tail ends of the drainage networks.Item The impacts of covid-19 on gender dynamics and power relations among men and women involved in cross border fish trade in Zambia and Malawi(Journal Article, 2022-10-08) Mudege, Netsayi N.; Mwema, Catherine; Kakwasha, Keagan; Chisopo, Andrew; Manyungwa-Pasani, Chikondi; Banda, Lisungu; Kaunda, E.; Marinda, PamelaThis paper explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to mitigate it on gender dynamics and power relations among men and women involved in cross border fish trade in Zambia and Malawi and the ensuing policy implications to support the fisheries value chain. The paper is based on qualitative and quantitative data collected in Zambia and Malawi in October and November 2021. We conducted quantitative surveys implemented the Cognitive Edge Sensemaker Tool and the Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis toolkit (EMMA to understand the dynamics of cross border fish trade before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A social relations approach, focusing on gender relations, was used to analyze the data. Findings suggest that women cross-border fish traders are caught up in a complex web of networks and relationships that are disempowering to them. Some measures put in place to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lacked an understanding of the historical perspective and dynamics of women in fish trading communities further marginalizing men and women cross border fish traders. Some measures exacerbated hidden violence against women and overt forms of violence against men. Since most of the violence occur across state boundaries, there is a need for inter-country coordination to ensure that the rights of women and men cross border fish traders are protected. Policy measures could include educating police officers for even-handedness when enforcing COVID-19 rules and providing mechanisms for reporting abusive practices.Item Gendered predictors of the impact of COVID-19 on cross-border fish trade in Zambia and Malawi(Journal Article) Mwema, Catherine; Mudege, Netsayi; Kakwasha, KeaganPurpose – While the literature has highlighted the impacts of COVID-19, there is limited evidence on the gendered determinants of the impact of COVID-19 among small-scale rural traders in developing and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach – Cross-border fish traders who had operated before and during the COVID-19 pandemic were interviewed in a survey conducted in Zambia and Malawi. Logistic regressions among male and female traders were employed to assess the gendered predictors. Findings – Heterogeneous effects in geographical location, skills, and knowledge were reported among male cross-border traders. Effects of household structure and composition significantly influenced the impact of COVID-19 among female traders. Surprisingly, membership in trade associations was associated with the high impact of COVID-19. Research limitations/implications – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the migratory nature of crossborder fish traders, the population of cross-border fish traders at the time of the study was unknown and difficult to establish, cross-border fish traders (CBFT) at the landing sites and market areas were targeted for the survey without bias. Originality/value – This paper addresses a gap in the literature on understanding gendered predictors of the impacts of COVID-19 among small-scale cross-border traders.Item Gendered implications of COVID-19 on wastewater reuse agri-food value chains in Egypt: Current context and practical recommendations(Brief, 2022-03) International Water Management InstituteThe colonial legacy of irrigated agriculture in Egypt continues to reinforce food security and poverty. Marginalized tenant farmers along the tail end of Drain 7 in Kafr El Sheikh face challenges of polluted, unreliable irrigation water, low crop productivity, income and food insecurity, and poor health. Low value agriculture work is increasingly performed by marginalized women, whose work and time is undervalued and taken for granted. There is no one category of women gendered inequalities are cut across by class, age, education, health – as well as by family ownership of land, location of cultivated plots which determine access to clean or drainage water. Technical changes need to be accompanied by changes in deep-rooted gender-power disparities: women’s ownership of land, their effective engagement in water governance and management requires systemic, structural changes to cultures and practices of and masculinity. COVID19 has made visible the combined social and economic stresses of marginalized women, who struggle with unpaid domestic care work and increasing productive water reuse irrigation, the latter often with little to no social and economic gains.Item Rewater MENA project and COVID-19 and Egypt’s Water Crisis project(Presentation, 2021-12-01) Lahham, NisreenItem Gender Mainstreaming Workshop: ReWater MENA Project & GENDER Project: COVID-19 and Egypt’s Water Crisis - Generating Evidence for Gender-Transformative Innovations(Report, 2021-12-01) International Water Management Institute; International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas; CGIAR GENDER PlatformThis research project is conducted by IWMI and ICARDA, in collaboration with the Egyptian Agricultural Research Center and the Arab Water Council and supported by CGIAR GENDER Platform. It is built upon the preliminary findings of ReWater MENA project in Kafr El-Sheikh in Egypt, asking the question, “What are the gendered implications of COVID-19 on wastewater reuse agri-food value chains in Egypt?” Informed by a feminist political ecology approach, the project analyses how intersectional inequalities by gender, class and other social identities determine poverty, landlessness and [waste]water access, use and control. With this understanding, the project documents the nature and scale of challenges, including social and cultural barriers experienced by marginalized women as wastewater reuse irrigators, producers and entrepreneurs.Item Revealing the deeper forces impacting women’s lives after COVID-19(Blog Post, 2022-02-15) International Potato CenterAs the world emerges from the pandemic, agricultural researchers have begun training their lenses to understand how COVID-19 has affected the lives of women in agri-food systems in developing countries. To inform development initiatives and investments, having a proper and specific understanding of women’s experience is paramount. However, many feminist researchers express concern that the methods used in these investigations often miss the nuance if they focus heavily on capital or production and ignore reproduction or the specific ways that women experience changes in agriculture and their livelihoods due to the impacts of COVID-19. Against this backdrop, the CGIAR GENDER platform organized a webinar to share results and learning from exciting new research projects which focused on these important questions about impact and methods.Item Thời sự tối (06/02/2022)(Video, 2022-02-06) LamDong TVItem Thời sự tối(Video, 2022-03-09) LamDong TVItem Thời sự tối Lâm Đồng ngày(Video, 2022-01-17) LamDong TVItem The Inception Workshop Report. Transforming the Rules of the Game: Gendered Liveability in Peri-urban Dhaka(Report, 2021-12) International Potato Center; Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityThe inception workshop on “Transforming the Rules of the Game: Gendered Liveability in Peri-urban Dhaka” was held on 20 December 2021 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to introduce the key partners to this project, and to share ideas, knowledge, and experiences that could helpfully inform the execution of the research. Thirty-three people (50% women) participated in this workshop, including government officers, local and international NGO representatives, university staff and private sector employees from the garment industry. Collectively, this group represented expertise in many subjects such as nutrition, food systems, environment, and urban development. The participants shared some practical approaches towards improving the living environment and food/water/nutrition for poor residents in urban areas. This workshop highlighted the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration with diverse institutions to understand the government’s priorities and interests. This report outlines key points and messages including feedback from project partners. The links to key documents are also included in this report.Item Impacts of Covid-19 remediation policies on gender equality and climate change in Son La and Thua Thien Hue provinces(Brief, 2021-11-30) Pham Thu Thuy; Trần, N.M.H.; Nguyễn Thị, V.A.; Nguyễn Thị, T.A.Item Tác động của các chính sách khắc phục hậu quả COVID đối với bình đẳng giới và biến đổi khí hậu tại Sơn La và Thừa Thiên Huế(Brief, 2021-11-30) Pham Thu Thuy; Trần, N.M.H.; Nguyễn Thị, V.A.; Nguyễn Thị, T.A.Item Impacts of Covid-19 and Payment for Forest Environmental Services on Rural Women in Moc Chau district, Son La province(Brief, 2021-11-23) Pham Thu Thuy; Trần, N.M.H.; Hoàng, T.L.Item Ảnh hưởng của COVID và Cơ chế chia sẻ lợi ích từ Chi trả dịch vụ môi trường rừng tới phụ nữ tại Mộc Châu, Sơn La(Brief, 2021-11-23) Pham Thu Thuy; Trần, N.M.H.; Hoàng, T.L.