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Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania
Maanda Ngoitiko / 2010
Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women’s Council – works to improve the lives of...
Can better policies help poor livestock producers?
A. Catley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
As global demand for meat and milk increases, many policies focus on promoting international trade in livestock and livestock products. How does this affect the community-based livestock services that...
Women's social exclusion from productive resources in Niger
M. Diarra; M. Monimart / Drylands Programme, IIED, 2006
This paper is a summary of a case study on gender, land and decentralisation. It addresses how women in rural areas of Niger deal with pressure on land within changing agricultural production systems....
Using female community mobilisers to increase gender equity in education in Mali
S. Sanou; S. Aikman / Oxfam, 2005
In the pastoral communities of Gao in northern Mali, girls’ school attendance is as low as 30 per cent, and non-completion rates for primary education are very high. In partnership with local organisa...
Delivery of primary education for girls should be more responsive to the nomadic way of life
I. Leggett / Oxfam, 2005
Expansion of primary education provision in Kenya from the 1960s dramatically increased participation overall. However, the policies that underpinned this expansion proved to be inappropriate to the c...
How do East African pastoralist women adapt to living in towns?
I. Nduma; P. Kristjanson; J. McPeak / International Livestock Research Institute , 2000
This article explores how women adopt new town-based income generation activties as they settle around market centres. The study focuses on this process among East Africa pastoralists. The study finds...
How does gender interact with environmental and socio-economic change: a study of sedentarisation of Moroccan pastoral nomads
S.H. Steinmann / Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998
Through a study of the sedentarization of the Beni Guil pastoral nomads of eastern Morocco,this paper examines how gender interacts with environmental and socio-economic change. This paper demonstrate...
Why women's role in livestock production and management must be valued and understood
M. Niamir-Fuller / Gender and Household Food Security, IFAD, 1994
There has been a significant lack of understanding and of women's role in livestock production which has consequently been largely underestimated and ignored.This report examines women's technical ...
Integrating gender into environmental research and policy
S. Joekes; C. Green; M. Leach / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 1996
The purpose of this paper is to show why gender issues are important in local natural resource management; to examine in what ways and with what effects environmental policies and programmes have atte...
What gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mongolia?
B. Robinson; A. Solongo / School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham, 2000
This article asks two questions in relation to the abrupt political and economic transitions in Mongolia: Firstly, why does gender matter in economics? Secondly, what gender-related issues have emerge...
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