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Understanding drivers and barriers for adoption of climate- smart agriculture through a gender lens: Evidence from India
No full textAdoption of potentially beneficial climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices has been low. There is limited evidence on opportunities for, and constraints to, adopting agricultural practices to respond to climate change among smallholder farmers, particularly women farmers. Furthermore, CSA is criticized for neglecting existing gender inequities in agriculture and, hence, falling short of responding to the needs of women farmers. This paper draws from quantitative surveys conducted with 2,238 female and 811 male farmers in Gujarat, a western state in India, to understand their perception of climate change and experience with climate shocks; and to assess factors that influence awareness and adoption of CSA practices among women and men. We use panel data from two data-collection rounds conducted in April to August 2022 and April to June 2023. While men mostly consider agricultural aspects and food security issues as the important consequences of climaterelated uncertainties, women also mention impacts on physical and mental well-being. The education level of the respondent, phone ownership, access to formal sources of extension, access to farm-level electricity connection and irrigation, are positively associated with adoption of CSA practices among women. On the other hand, women belonging to female-headed households are less likely to adopt CSA practices. Risk aversion is negatively correlated with adoption of CSA practices for both men and women. The results can be used by governments, nongovernmental organizations, and other critical stakeholders interested in ensuring equity in adoption of CSA practices, thereby enhancing resilience among farming households in low- and middle-income countries
COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Nepal, Round 4
No full textThis dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Nepal. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. To capture these various effects on household welfare, this phone survey was conducted with (around) 421 women and 161 male farmers randomly drawn from a pre-listing exercise done for a previous household survey in 2020. The same individuals were also interviewed during other rounds to generate a longitudinal panel allowing to analyze the impact of COVID-19 through time. This is Round 4 of the five surveys done so far.GCAN; Gender; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance; Cross-cutting gender theme;EPTD; SAR;CGIAR Gender Platform; CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from India and Nepal
No full textPrepared by Prapti Barooah 29th IAFFE Annual Conference 25th June 202
How has COVID-19 impacted food security? Insights from women farmers in Nepal
No full textPrepared by Prapti Barooa
Impact of COVID-19 on the welfare of rural households in Nepal (Round 1)
No full textBy Muzna Alvi and Prapti Barooah (EPTD
Impact of COVID-19 on the welfare of rural households in Nepal (Round 2)
No full textBy Muzna Alvi and Prapti Barooah (EPTD
Food security and women’s well-being: Insights from rural Nepal
No full textAs the impacts of the COVID-19 continue to be felt across the world, the need to address the vulnerabilities of the poor and marginalized is heightened. In rural and agriculture dependent economies, it is often the farm sector that is most severely impacted in times of crisis, in large part due to the lack of access to risk and loss mitigation measures, and limited access to government assistance. Among those who are affected, periods of crisis are often worse for vulnerable groups such as children, women and those belonging to historically disadvantaged groups and communities. We use four rounds of phone survey data from farmers in Nepal conducted between June 2020 to January 2021, to study the impacts of the pandemic and associated lockdowns on maize farmers in Dang district of Nepal, with a focus on food security and dietary diversity. Our sample comprises of nearly 690 respondents, of which 70% are women. The area where our survey is conducted, borders India and thus sees large out-migration of men, leaving women as de-facto heads of households
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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