Glazebrook T., Opoku E. (2020). Gender and sustainability: learning from womens farming in Africa. Sustainability, 15/12/2020, vol. 12, n. 24, p. 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410483
https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410483
Titre : | Gender and sustainability: learning from womens farming in Africa (2020) |
Auteurs : | T. Glazebrook ; E. Opoku |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Sustainability (vol. 12, n. 24, December 2020) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 1-20 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 14 - SOCIOLOGIE ; 14.6 - Rôle de la FemmeThésaurus IAMM GENRE FEMMES HOMMES ; AGRICULTURE ; AGRICULTRICE ; ROLE DES FEMMES ; DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ; PRATIQUE AGRICOLE ; SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE ; DURABILITE ; FEMME ; AFRIQUE ; GHANA |
Résumé : | Africa was the only continent not to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of 50% poverty reduction. This paper asks whether Africa will fare better in meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressing poverty and hunger by 2030. To answer this question, we examine a diverse body of literature and provide relevant longitudinal data collected over 13 years of field research. We find that sustainable development is a failed concept immersed in the contemporary global economic system that favors growth over ecosystem stability and international institutions that undervalue womens capacity for sustainability in their care-work as food providers. We examine barriers to womens farming (climate change, gender bias, limited access to land, technology, finance) and provide examples of womens innovative strategies for overcoming barriers in their care practices toward family and community well-being and ecosystem health. We find that Africa will likely repeat past failures without community-level interventions that empower women to achieve SDGs on poverty, hunger, gender equity, and ecosystem management. We uncover similar holistic thinking in womens agricultural practices and scientific conception of ecosystem services. |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410483 |