Women And Small Scale Irrigation

Author : Bryan, Elizabeth,Lefore, Nicole
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Women and small-scale irrigation: A review of the factors influencing gendered patterns of participation and benefits by Bryan, Elizabeth,Lefore, Nicole Pdf

Small-scale irrigation is expanding rapidly in parts of the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, offering smallholder farmers an opportunity to improve their livelihoods, diets, and resilience to climate change among other benefits. Growing research focuses on the potential for small-scale irrigation to offer a pathway for women’s empowerment, yet the factors conditioning the relationship between small-scale irrigation and women’s empowerment are not well understood. The evidence tends to be scattered across context-specific case studies that focus on targeted outcomes, without distinguishing between technology types, scales, or approaches to irrigation systems or technologies. This paper synthesizes the issues related to gender and small-scale irrigation using a conceptual framework that highlights the linkages between elements of women’s empowerment and small-scale irrigation. Because gendered dynamics with small-scale irrigation play out differently depending on the scale of irrigation and the technologies used, this paper applies the framework to examine case studies across a typology of small-scale irrigation systems. The case studies cover a range of farming and livelihood systems in which women’s roles and gender relations vary, highlighting the importance of the opportunity structure or context in which irrigation takes place. This paper then draws lessons on the various ways in which small-scale irrigation, gender relations, and women’s empowerment interact and highlights areas where research gaps remain.

Author : Barbara van Koppen,Lesley Hope,Willem Colenbrander
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290907671

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Gender Aspects of Small-scale Private Irrigation in Africa by Barbara van Koppen,Lesley Hope,Willem Colenbrander Pdf

This Working Paper presents methodological and substantive findings of gender-differentiated quantitative farm household surveys about smallholder’s private irrigation technology adoption in Ghana and Zambia. Focusing on three gender variables, household headship, labor provision and plot management, the paper examines adoption rates, types of technologies and gendered labor provision in female- and male-headed households; compares adoption rates on women’s own plots with overall rates; compares women’s decision-making on irrigated plots and rainfed plots; and examines impacts of targeting strategies. Findings suggest that women are proactive irrigation adopters in spite of the many obstacles they face. Removing those obstacles serves both gender equality and irrigation policies.

Author : Bryan, Elizabeth,Garner, Elisabeth
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention by Bryan, Elizabeth,Garner, Elisabeth Pdf

Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and economic growth. Increasingly, researchers seek ways to measure women’s empowerment, trace the pathways through which women’s empowerment is achieved, and provide guidance for policymakers and practitioners aiming to facilitate women’s empowerment through their interventions. This paper explores local perceptions of empowerment in the Upper East Region of Ghana in the context of a small-scale irrigation intervention targeted to men and women farmers. Using data collected through qualitative interviews and focus groups, the paper traces the linkages between small-scale irrigation and aspects of women’s empowerment, identified as important to men and women farmers themselves. The relationship between the components of empowerment and small-scale irrigation are placed within a larger context of social change underlying these relationships. Finally, this paper explores the ways that the introduction of modern technologies for small-scale irrigation may contribute to women’s empowerment.

Author : Elizabeth Bryan,Nicole Lefore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1356303903

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Women and Small-scale Irrigation by Elizabeth Bryan,Nicole Lefore Pdf

Author : Theis, Sophie,Lefore, Nicole,Bryan, Elizabeth,Ringler, Claudia,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Integrating gender into small-scale irrigation by Theis, Sophie,Lefore, Nicole,Bryan, Elizabeth,Ringler, Claudia,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela Pdf

Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) interventions, like other development interventions, need to take into account men’s and women’s context-specific roles in agriculture and their related gender-based preferences and challenges. Understanding gender differences related to SSI technologies can help us improve targeting and better anticipate and monitor the impact of technologies on different people. Gender analysis is relevant to any SSI program, whether it seeks to avoid harm to women, to serve both men and women, or to advance women’s empowerment.

Author : Theis, Sophie,Bekele, Rahel Deribe,Lefore, Nicole,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Ringler, Claudia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Considering gender when promoting small-scale irrigation technologies: Guidance for inclusive irrigation interventions by Theis, Sophie,Bekele, Rahel Deribe,Lefore, Nicole,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Ringler, Claudia Pdf

Many actors promoting irrigation technologies in low- and middle-income countries want to ensure that men, women, and different social groups have equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from irrigation but are uncertain how to do so. This tool provides a guide and structured set of questions to assess gender dynamics in irrigation in a specific context. The questions can be used to collect information prior to, during, or after project implementation to inform different strategic approaches of the project, including gender-sensitive marketing and dissemination strategies, design of technologies, risk mitigation approaches, adaptive management, and/or monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities.

Author : Elizabeth Bryan,Elisabeth Garner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1353910369

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What Does Empowerment Mean to Women in Northern Ghana? by Elizabeth Bryan,Elisabeth Garner Pdf

Author : Theis, Sophie,Passarelli, Simone,Bryan, Elizabeth,Lefore, Nicole,Deneke, Seblewongle,Nyamadi, Ben,Mlote, Sophia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Promoting gender equality in irrigation by Theis, Sophie,Passarelli, Simone,Bryan, Elizabeth,Lefore, Nicole,Deneke, Seblewongle,Nyamadi, Ben,Mlote, Sophia Pdf

Small-scale irrigation is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security under growing climate uncertainty in Africa south of the Sahara. Rainfed production dominates the region, but governments and other stakeholders are increasing investments in irrigation. As these efforts are being rolled out, the gender implications of irrigation must be consid-ered to ensure that both men and women have the opportunity to adopt irrigation technologies and benefit from these investments.

Author : Merrey, D. J.,Lefore, Nicole
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290908760

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Improving the availability and effectiveness of rural and “Micro” finance for small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Merrey, D. J.,Lefore, Nicole Pdf

Author : Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele,Merrey, Douglas,Kamara, Abdul,van Koppen, Barbara,Penning de Vries, Frits,Boelee, Eline
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Irrigation projects
ISBN : 9789290906124

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Experiences and opportunities for promoting small-scale/micro irrigation and rainwater harvesting for food security in Ethiopia by Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele,Merrey, Douglas,Kamara, Abdul,van Koppen, Barbara,Penning de Vries, Frits,Boelee, Eline Pdf

Author : Laia Domenech
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Impact of Irrigation on Nutrition, Health, and Gender by Laia Domenech Pdf

Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) is still largely rainfed. SSA also exhibits the lowest crop yields for major staples in the world, largely due to low use of irrigation and fertilizer. Rainfed agriculture poses growing production risks with increased climate variability and change. At the same time, smallholder irrigation in the region developed rapidly over the past decade, albeit starting from very low levels. In addition to largely demand-driven irrigation development by smallholders, there is a significant push by donors for large-scale irrigation development, as well as some push for smallholder irrigation. There has also been a long-standing debate about whether irrigation in SSA should be large scale or small scale to achieve its potential. However, given the potentially high rewards, but also high possibility of failure, the assessment of irrigation potential must go beyond large scale versus small scale to integrate concerns regarding environmental sustainability, resource use efficiency, nutrition and health impacts, and women’s empowerment. The hypothesis underlying this review paper is that how irrigation gets deployed in SSA will be decisive not only for environmental sustainability (such as deciding remaining forest cover in the region) and poverty reduction, but also for health, nutrition, and gender outcomes in the region. The focus of this paper is on the health, nutrition, and gender linkage. We find that to date, few studies have analyzed the impact of irrigation interventions on nutrition, health, and women’s empowerment, despite the large potential of irrigation to affect these important variables. Irrigation interventions may have differential effects on different members in the household and in the community, such as irrigators, non-irrigators, children, and women. Measuring and understanding such differences, followed by improving design and implementation to maximize gender, health, and nutrition outcomes, could transform irrigation programs from focusing solely on increased food production toward becoming an integral component of poverty-reduction strategies.

Author : International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Revolutionizing smallholder irrigation in Africa by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Pdf

Author : Bryan, Elizabeth,Hagos, Fitsum,Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework,Gemeda, Demie Abera,Yimam, Seid
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The diffusion of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia: Stakeholder analysis using Net-Map by Bryan, Elizabeth,Hagos, Fitsum,Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework,Gemeda, Demie Abera,Yimam, Seid Pdf

Small-scale irrigation (SSI) provides great benefits to farmers in terms of increased yields and profits, better food and nutrition security and greater resilience to climate shocks. Ethiopia has high potential for expanding SSI and has invested considerably in this area in recent years. Despite these investments, several challenges to further expansion of irrigation technologies remain. Different stakeholders in the country play important roles in overcoming these barriers to further scale technologies for SSI. This paper explores institutional arrangements for the diffusion of small-scale irrigation technologies by mapping the landscape of key actors involved, their interconnections, and their influence. This paper draws on an analysis of stakeholder data collected through two participatory workshops in Ethiopia, one at the national level and one at the Oromia regional level, using the Net-Map approach. Results show the dominance of government actors in the diffusion of SSI at both the national and regional levels, while most private sector and NGO actors remain in the periphery. Participants in both workshops highlighted the need for increased financing services to support the adoption of SSI and measures aimed at increasing the supply of high-quality irrigation equipment, such as modern water lifting technologies. One notable difference between the national and regional results was that at the regional level, farmers, and to some extent traders and input suppliers, were considered to be more influential in the diffusion of irrigation technologies, while they were considered marginal actors at the national level.

Author : Nkonya, Ephraim M.,Kato, Edward,Ru, Yating
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Drivers of adoption of small-scale irrigation in Mali and its impacts on nutrition across sex of irrigators by Nkonya, Ephraim M.,Kato, Edward,Ru, Yating Pdf

Irrigation is an important strategy to increase agricultural productivity, improve nutrition security and reduce climate-related risks in rural Africa, but adoption of this technology has been low. Using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study, this paper analyzes the characteristics of irrigation in Mali and its impact on nutrition across sex of irrigators. Results show that gravity irrigation is the most common technology and is practiced by 47 percent of irrigators. The share of women irrigators (3 percent of all plots) is significantly lower than that of men. Econometric results show that the proximity of crop fields to the homestead increases the propensity to use motor pumps while more remote plots are more likely to rely on gravity irrigation. Literacy and income from nonfarm activities increase the propensity to use motorized irrigation technologies. Access to motor pumps, in turn, increases consumption of fruits and vegetables, oils, spices, and cereals for female-headed households. Overall, irrigation increases consumption of nutrient-rich food groups, which significantly improves household nutrition in addition to increasing income. Participation in farmer groups increases the propensity to adopt irrigation. Farmer groups might also be an entry point for capacity building on irrigation; and groups to which women farmers belong should receive information on irrigation. Farmer groups also tend to support market participation, which is important to help address the challenge of economies of scale of small-scale irrigators.

Author : Laia Domenech, and Claudia Ringler
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The impact of irrigation on nutrition, health, and gender: A review paper with insights for Africa south of the Sahara by Laia Domenech, and Claudia Ringler Pdf