Collaborative Research: Women's Empowerment, Food Security and Farm Productivity

合作研究：妇女赋权、粮食安全和农业生产力

• 批准号: 1459013
• 负责人: Carmen Bain
• 金额: $ 7.53万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1459013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Women; Empowerment; Food

This project investigates the implications of development initiatives that seek to empower women and enhance gender equity in developing countries, using the dairy sector in Uganda as a field site. In Uganda, as in many developing countries, women dominate the agricultural labor force, yet gender-based inequalities constrain their ability to enhance farm productivity and profitability. A key development strategy to close the gender gap focuses on empowering women within agricultural value chains, the wide-ranging set of activities that connect farmers to markets. Yet little is known about the effects of value chain development initiatives for empowering female farmers and addressing gender-based inequalities. This research uses a value chain approach and geospatial analysis to examine gender mainstreaming efforts in Uganda by comparing dairy value chains with active gender and-development programs with dairy value chains that do not have gender-specific programs. The results from this study will provide a better understanding of how female farmer participation in the marketplace facilitates women?s empowerment and improves farm productivity and food security in developing countries.The objectives of this research are to: 1) Identify and measure how gender mainstreaming efforts affect women's participation in the value chain, gender equity in the household, and gender equity in the community; 2) Analyze the spatial and geographic consequences of women's empowerment at the individual, household, and community levels; and 3) Evaluate how examining gender within a spatial context assists in decision making for development programs. To accomplish this, a mixed method research approach will be used including: 1) surveys of female and male farmers engaged in the value chain; 2) in-depth interviews with female and male farmers from households engaged in the value chain, as well as key stakeholders throughout the value chain; 3) geospatial analysis; and 4) a randomized experiment. By conducting a theory directed, empirically grounded analysis of pro-poor value chain projects, this research can inform and shape the decisions of donor organizations, development practitioners, the private sector, and policy makers interested in targeting vulnerable populations through market based initiatives, as well as academics working in the areas of agriculture, gender, and development.

该项目以乌干达的奶制品部门为实地，调查旨在赋予发展中国家妇女权力和加强性别平等的发展倡议的影响。在乌干达，就像在许多发展中国家一样，妇女在农业劳动力中占主导地位，但基于性别的不平等限制了她们提高农业生产率和盈利能力的能力。缩小性别差距的一项关键发展战略侧重于在农业价值链中赋予妇女权力，这是一系列将农民与市场联系起来的广泛活动。然而，关于价值链发展举措对赋予女性农民权力和解决基于性别的不平等问题的影响，人们知之甚少。这项研究使用价值链方法和地理空间分析来检查乌干达的性别主流化努力，方法是比较具有积极性别和发展计划的乳制品价值链与没有性别特定计划的乳制品价值链。这项研究的结果将有助于更好地理解女性农民参与市场如何促进妇女赋权？S，并提高发展中国家的农业生产力和粮食安全。本研究的目标是：1)确定和衡量性别主流化努力如何影响妇女参与价值链、家庭中的性别公平和社区中的性别公平；2)分析妇女赋权在个人、家庭和社区层面的空间和地理后果；以及3)评估在空间背景下考察性别问题如何有助于发展项目的决策。为此，将使用混合方法研究方法，包括：1)对从事价值链的男女农民进行调查；2)对从事价值链的家庭的男女农民以及整个价值链的关键利益相关者进行深入访谈；3)地理空间分析；4)随机试验。通过对扶贫价值链项目进行以理论为导向、以经验为基础的分析，这项研究可以为捐助组织、发展从业者、私营部门、对通过基于市场的倡议针对弱势群体感兴趣的政策制定者以及农业、性别和发展领域的学者的决策提供信息并形成决策。