Exploring gender perceptions of livestock ownership

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  • Presentation speakers
    • Alessandra Galiè, Social Scientist: Gender , ILRI

  Background:

  • Ownership of Livestock (OL) assumed to increase agricultural productivity and food security
  • OL by women assumed to improve their control over productive resources, gender equity and food security
  • Changes in OL used in surveys to assess impact

   

  The problem:

  • What are the local understandings of ownership by gender?
  • Does OL translate into control?
  • How do concepts of ownership affect household food security?

   

  Paper: Galiè A., A. Mulema, A. M. Mora Benard, S. Onzere & K. Colverson 2015:

  ‘Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua’.

  Agriculture & Food Security, 4 (1), 2. http://www.agricultureandfoodsecurity.com/content/4/1/2

  Key question:

  ‘What do women and men associate ‘ownership of livestock’ (OL) with?

   

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