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Food Security, Gender and Resilience - Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming (Paperback)
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Food Security, Gender and Resilience - Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
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Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience
thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a
collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security
in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of
the book is both local and multi-scalar. The gendered resilience
framework, illustrated here with detailed case studies from
semi-arid Kenya, is shown to be suitable for use in analysis in
other geographic regions and across disciplines. The book examines
the importance of gender equity to the strengthening of
socio-ecological resilience. Case studies reflect multidisciplinary
perspectives and focus on a range of issues, from microfinance to
informal seed systems. The book's gender perspective also
incorporates consideration of age or generational relations and
cultural dimensions in order to embrace the complexity of existing
socio-economic realities in rural farming communities. The issue of
succession of farmland has become a general concern, both to
farmers and to researchers focused on building resilient farming
systems. Building resilience here is shown to involve strengthening
households' and communities' overall livelihood capabilities in the
face of ongoing climate change, global market volatility and
political instability.
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