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- Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania
- ( Maanda Ngoitiko / , 2010)
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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)
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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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