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  1. Library Resource
    Social and Gender

    Barotse Floodplain, Western Province, Zambia

    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Zambia

    There is increasing awareness that integrating gender into development frameworks is critical for effective implementation of development strategies. In working to alleviate rural poverty, the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) recognizes that “business as usual” gender integration approaches will not deliver lasting and widespread improvements in agricultural productivity, poverty reduction and food security. In response, AAS operationalized a gender transformative approach (see Cole et al. 2014a, 2014b).

  2. Library Resource
    Gender inequalities
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    Zambia

    BarotseFloodplain, Western Province of Zambia
    •Multiple demographic, socioeconomic and climatic challenges and vulnerabilities
    •Variety of livelihood opportunities: flood –provide fish & aquatic plants; water subside –fertile ground to cultivate crops
    •Cattle, forest products, fish trade, piecework

     

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Southern Africa

    The Chinyanja Triangle (CT) is an area inside the Zambezi

    River Basin, inhabited by Chinyanja-speaking people

    sharing a similar history, language and culture across

    the dryland systems of the eastern province of Zambia,

    southern and central regions of Malawi and Tete Province

    of Mozambique. Chiefs and Chiefdoms play a critical role

    in decision making and influencing social relationships. The

    Zambezi River, which originates in the Kalene Hills in Zambia

    is joined by ten big tributaries from six countries, and is

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2018

    Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: practical because women are responsible for much of the production by smallholders; and social justice because in many cases they currently do not have rights over land and water resources, nor full access to markets, and often they do not even control the crops they produce.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2018

    Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: practical because women are responsible for much of the production by smallholders; and social justice because in many cases they currently do not have rights over land and water resources, nor full access to markets, and often they do not even control the crops they produce.

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