Gender Mainstreaming
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S.J. Dima and A.A. OgunmokunIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
In Namibia, urbanisation has attained explosive rates since independence in 1990, along with the rapid migration of rural people to the urban areas in search of employment. As the driest country in Africa, Namibia's agricultural base is weak. Most vegetables and fruits sold in urban centres of Namibia are imported from South Africa. Despite this disadvantage, intensive urban farming activities, both on a commercial and a micro scale, are carried out in backyards, open spaces and along river courses. There is very little information available on this farming. A study was therefore conducted to collect, synthesise and analyse all available information on two municipalities in Namibia, namely Windhoek and Oshakati.
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Juliet Kiguli and Lillian N. KiguliIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
Urban and periurban farming are increasingly important as a source of income and food for the urban population in Uganda. Women lack access to land, as do the poor marginalised migrant young men. Legal and policy frameworks are not fully promulgated for protection of urban farmers and especially women. Irrespective of some cultural inhibitors, Uganda has adapted affirmative action to improve gender relations. Lobbying and advocacy at the organisational and individual levels are important to improve women's access to land and micro-finances.
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Grace Nabulo, George Nasinyama, Diana Lee-Smith and Donald ColeIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
This article reports on a survey of 250 farmers growing food on former dump-sites and wastewater irrigated wetlands in Kampala city. The questionnaires were developed with the help of IDRC guidelines on gender analysis methods. The study seeks to describe the distribution of activities and resources, benefits and risks of urban agriculture based on gender. It shows that the main motivating benefit of urban agriculture in Kampala City is food and that women suffer more from a lack of ownership and control over land than men. Women are more likely to grow food crops on contaminated land, which makes them more vulnerable to health risks associated with improper management of urban agriculture.
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Azage TegegneIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
Urban livestock production plays a substantial role in the food security of the city. Yet urban livestock keepers are still receiving little attention in terms of policy, and institutional and technical supports targeted at their needs. In Ethiopia, women perform 70% of the livestock production activities. Milk processing and marketing activities are mainly done by women, while selling and buying livestock is exclusively the men's responsibility. Women make important contributions to food production through the long hours they spend on the farm caring for household animals, selling farm products and processing food.
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Yomi Oruwari and Margaret JevIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
Integration of gender in planning interventions improves programmes and policies especially oriented toward the poor in urban areas. Urban land use planning and gender involvement is a major issue in Nigeria at the moment, as it pertains to effective utilisation of urban land. In and around the city of Port Harcourt urban farmlands have given way to urban development activities, especially mineral oil exploitation and the development of land for housing. In this process, the inability of urban planners to cater for the growing needs of the urban farmers, especially women producing fresh vegetables and perishable fruits, is apparent and needs attention.
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Vide Anosike and Mayowa FasonaIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
A high rate of poverty among urban households, rapidly growing responsibilities of women as bread winners and the potentials embedded in city farming have caused urban agriculture to become a crucial activity in Lagos. However, inadequate access to land, a lack of improved implements and insufficient availability of water for irrigation, among other problems, remain pertinent obstacles to efficient and effective farm practices Women tend to be the worst affected by these problems and,. consequently, women dominate in many urban agricultural activities that have lower profit margins. Unfortunately, the changes expected to narrow down gender disparities in commercial food production processes and encourage high profit, savings and investment remain at the neophyte stage. This paper critically appraises the peculiarity of gender challenges in urban food production in Lagos and offers some policy considerations.
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Nathan C. McClintockIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
In Senegal, urban agriculture has grown rapidly in response to the fragile nature of urban food security and to meet the market needs of the growing urban populace. Inadequate access to land, precarious land tenure, and insufficient water and manure make urban farming increasingly difficult, particularly for women whose access to land and capital is limited by a host of socio-economic factors.
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Maty Ba DiaoIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
The periurban zone of the Niayes has a long tradition of market gardening and fruit and flower production in combination with small-scale animal husbandry, both for self-consumption and for sale on urban markets. Little research has been conducted on gender and urban agriculture in Senegal. In this article the role of women in periurban agriculture in the Niayes zone is described based on case studies and constraints and needs for further research are outlined.
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Sangeetha Purushothaman, M.S. Subhas and Mitali NagrechaIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
In the periurban interface immense changes in livelihoods and land use occur. Expansion of cities stimulated by globalisation and privatisation poses risks for existing livelihoods as well as opportunities for new livelihoods by making use of urban employment and markets. Decision makers in urban and rural government agencies and in development agencies alike need to recognise these changes that are already underway, and respond in ways that turn these changes into opportunities for new livelihoods for the periurban and rural poor. This paper discusses some of the practices currently in place, which open up marketing avenues for the poor and for women.
Submitted by Guest on Mon, 07/04/2005 - 19:11
Felicity ChancellorIn: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture
Urban poverty is an increasing problem. Around 70% of the world's poorest people are women, many of whom are widows or single mothers with the responsibility of feeding children and old people. Small-scale food production as part of a range of opportunities is vital to the livelihoods of poor people and poor women in the city. The social, cultural, and economic climate of the city moulds the ways men and women can use and benefit from urban agriculture. The two studies referred to in this article provide a rudimentary gender analysis as the basis to discuss how urban agriculture actually benefits the major stakeholders.
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