Gender accommodative versus transformative approaches : a comparative assessment within a post-harvest fish loss reduction intervention
The study investigated influence on decision-making powers in relation to income generated through fishing, processing, or trading fish; ownership status of key value chain assets; and changes in gender attitudes. In small-scale fisheries women often lack access to or control over fishing gear resources and assets. Results suggest that the use of a transformative approach helped build a critical consciousness at community and other levels and led to greater gains for women and the community. Extension and value chain development programs in small-scale fisheries, aquaculture, and agriculture increasingly recognize gender constraints that create disadvantages for women and other social groups.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven M., Kaminski, Alexander M., McDougall, Cynthia, Kefi, Alexander S., Marinda, Pamela A., Maliko, Modern, Mtonga, Johans
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Improving fish post-harvest management and marketing in Malawi and Zambia
This policy brief provides an overview of the project, which increased the adoption of innovations for post-harvest management of fish and addressed social norms governing benefit sharing across fish value chains. By utilizing the introduced technologies, fish processors increased their gross margins from 4.7% to 25.26%, while traders saw an increase from 22.8% to 25.3%. Poor processing and management of fish products results in losses worth up to US$5 billion each year. Limited involvement of women further weakens the economic value of fish at household, community and regional levels. Women’s ownership of fishing assets increased over the course of the project, from 44% to 76%.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven, Kefi, Alexander Shula, Katundu, Mangani, Mkandawire, Nyambe Lisulo
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Improving fish post-harvest management and marketing in Malawi and Zambia : project profile
Working with fishing communities in Barotse (Barotse floodplain, Zambia) and Lake Chilwa (Malawi), and other partners, the project will analyze fish value chains, including the differing roles of men and women, to understand how losses occur in fish volume, nutrient content, and economic value. Researchers will evaluate post-harvest fish processing practices to improve their effectiveness, reduce losses, and promote greater equity among the men and women who work in the fisheries sector. Poor processing and management are major factors, resulting in losses worth up to US$5 billion each year.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAf)
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Gender transformative change in Malawian and Zambian fishery value chains : gender outcomes
This brief explains the gender transformative approach which was adopted throughout the project to address harmful social and gender norms and power relations that constrain women fishery producers. The project developed and tested postharvest fish processing technologies (solar tent dryers, smoking kilns, salting) to help reduce losses. Qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to uncover the complex causes of fish post-harvest loss with a special focus on processing. Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries Index (WEFI) is a valuable instrument for application in small-scale fishery settings to assess gendered dynamics.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven M., Kaminski, Alexander M., Magalasi, Mufunanji, Nagoli, Joseph, Binauli, Lucy
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Improving livelihood security and gender relations in rural Zambia and Malawi through post-harvest fish value chain innovations and social change interventions - final technical report
The project identifies and evaluates interventions to improve livelihood security and gender relations through post-harvest fish value chain innovations: first by targeting the processing node in the value chain to reduce losses and improve the quality of fish being processed; second, by piloting women-sensitive technologies that help decrease time and labor burdens of women; and third, through design and testing of social change interventions that highlight gendered roles and power relations in the value chain, and in particular within the processing node.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Kefi, Alexander Shula, Katundu, Mangani, Mkandawire, Nyambe Lisulo
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Gender-transformative approaches to address inequalities in food, nutrition and economic outcomes in aquatic agricultural systems
Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) uses gender-transformative approaches to help achieve the goal of enhancing development outcomes of resource-poor women and men and their families. This paper details the approaches utilized by the program and their implementation in its five learning hubs (Solomon Islands, Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Zambia), located in areas where dependence on aquatic agricultural systems is high.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven M., Kantor, Paula, Sarapura, Silvia, Rajaratnam, Surendran
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Postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations : drivers of the socialecological trap in the Barotse Floodplain fishery, Zambia
The paper examines existing fishery-dependent livelihood contexts in terms of a “social-ecological trap,” a process whereby rigid and persistent behavioral responses are applied due to lack of capacity to adapt beyond this thinking. A gender lens is used to look beyond the primary sector (fishing) and to include considerations of a secondary sector (postharvest fish processing) as an important dimension in the social-ecological trap paradigm. Findings show that postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations are two drivers of the “trap” in the floodplain fishery. This process highlights interconnections between people and their natural environment as elements of social-ecological systems.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven M., McDougall, Cynthia, Kaminski, Alexander M., Kefi, Alexander S., Chilala, Alex, Chisule, Gethings
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Changement transformateur des relations entre les sexes dans la chaîne de valeur du secteur des pêches : résultats relatifs au genre
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven M., Kaminski, Alexander M., Magalasi, Mufunanji, Nagoli, Joseph, Binauli, Lucy Binauli
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Social and gender analysis report : Barotse Floodplain, Western Province, Zambia
The report presents a review of literature relevant to livelihoods, ecosystem services, and gender and social relations in Zambia, with a specific focus on the Western Province, where Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) is currently implemented. It also presents a synthesis of findings of social and gender analyses (2013) in ten communities situated in and around the Barotse Floodplain. Women in the floodplain are heavily engaged in fish processing, with children often assisting their mothers or female relatives in drying fish. Findings in this comprehensive study report provide contextual and baseline data for ongoing monitoring of the AAS program.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Rajaratnam, Surendran, Cole, Steven M., Fox, Karyn M., Dierksmeirer, Benjamin, Puskur, Ranjitha, Zulu, Festus, Jiau, Teoh Shwu, Situmo, Judy
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Collaborative effort to operationalize the gender transformative approach in the Barotse Floodplain
Agricultural interventions that aim at alleviating rural poverty have important gender implications. The paper explores a Gender Transformative Approach recognizing that fishing, post- harvest processing, and trading are all gendered activities. On the Barotse Floodplain (Zambia) women are relegated to perform tasks within less profitable nodes of the fish value chain. The assessment of ecosystem services in a select number of Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) focal communities included women’s and men’s perspectives and diverse provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Cole, Steven M., van Koppen, Barbara, Puskur, Ranjitha, Estrada, Natalia, DeClerck, Fabrice, Baidu-Forson, Joseph Jojo, Remans, Roseline, Mapedza, Everisto, Longley, Catherine, Muyaule, Conrad, Zulu, Festus
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