towards a coherent swedish response to international agricultural development under the mandate of...
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On Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 SIANI had the pleasure of coordinating the opening seminar to a four day writeshop on “Why Women Matter in Agriculture: Overcoming Gender Barriers to Agricultural Development”. The event, open to the public, and attended by over 50 participants, was designed as a kick-off for the writeshop deliberations which followed with a smaller group of invited experts. The event took place at Sida Headquarters in Stockholm. It brought together speakers from Eastern and Southern Africa to discuss the role of women and the importance of gender in the contemporary agricultural development discourse.TRANSCRIPT
Towards a Coherent Swedish Response to
International Agricultural Development under the mandate of the Policy
for Global Development (PGD)
agriculture matters SIANI Swedish International Agricultural Network
Initiative
Why Women Matter in Agriculture
05 April 2011 at Sida
Overcoming Gender Barriers to Agricultural Development
www.siani.se [email protected]
1. An independent, multi-stakeholder platform for
government, civil society, private sector, research
and education sectors
2. A network aiming to connect Swedish actors to
international policy processes related to agriculture
as driver of change in economic growth and
poverty alleviation, food security, climate change
and sustainable development.
agriculture matters What is SIANI?
www.siani.se [email protected]
agriculture matters How does it work?
Financed by Sida
Hosted by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Guided by an Advisory Group independent of both Sida
and SEI (13 members; 3 academia, 2 private sector, 4 government and 4 NGO/Civil Society)
Coordinated by a Secretariat (2.5 positions + interns)
Responsive to member input and initiative
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agriculture matters Potential Subject Matter Areas
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agriculture matters What does SIANI do?
Organises and facilitates seminars and workshops
Facilitates expert groups and issue based clusters (bioenergy, productive sanitation)
Synthesizes the understanding of specific issues in the
form of policy briefs and concept notes
Implements strategic initiatives at request of
government institutions
Facilitates dialogues, including member to member
contact on the website database
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agriculture matters Why Women Matter in Agriculture
Women are at least 50% of the work force and other economic
arguments
Women have important productive and reproductive roles and there are
gender barriers to optimal use of human and other productive resources
Explaining why they matter does not seem to preoccupy our presenters
today, the sub-title: overcoming gender barriers to agricultural development
seems to be much more important!
Follow up of the 5 Country Gender Review carried out by Sida in 2010 (ASP Zambia, NALEP Kenya, FondeAgro, Nicaragua, ProAgri Mozambique and SARDEP in Ethiopia)
Good policies and good intentions are not enough; we need a guidelines
and tools for field level implementation
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Structure of the Seminar:
Each presentation will be 20-30 minutes long, with time for questions directly after each presenter.
13:00 – 13:10 Welcome and Introduction Melinda Fones-Sundell, SIANI Coordinator
13:10- 13:30 'Gender and Agriculture in Sweden's development policies' Prudence
Woodford-Berger, Senior Analyst, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
13:30 – 14:10 "What needs to be done to improve Government’s ability to institutionalize
gender mainstreaming?” Monica Munachonga, Consultant, Zambia
14:10 – 14:50 A Grassroots perspective on supporting human rights and gender in rural communities Violet Shivutse, GROOTS Kenya
14:50-15:00 Break
15:00 – 15:40 Women’s Unfinished Struggle for Land in Zimbabwe Dr. Rudo Gaidzanwa,
Dean, University of Zimbabwe
15:40-16:15 Gender in agriculture - a view from the agricultural cooperating partners
group in Zambia.Dr. Eva Ohlsson, Sida
16:15-16:30 Summing up and ways forward
Dr. Cathy Farnworth, Consultant
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agriculture matters Follow up – Writeshop, 6-8 April
Institutions and Policies for Agricultural DevelopmentCBOs/RPOs: How to ensure the representation of women?
Governments: moving from policy statements to implementation
Donors: Gender-sensitive programming for Agriculture
Access to and Control over Productive Resources. Land Tenure and Management
Production Inputs
Investments and Financing
Agro-based Economic Development and MarketsCan markets be pro-poor?
Potential conflicts between market-led development and food security
Pro-poor pro-women value chains
Gender differences in income generation and spending patterns
Climate Smart AgricultureImplications of different adaptation/mitigation measures for gender equality
Carbon trading and small-holder incomes
Organic and agro-ecological approaches – an entry point for climate smart agriculture?
Conservation farming – an entry point?
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agriculture matters Why Women Matter in Agriculture
Agricultural Extension, Training and Capacity BuildingGender issues in agricultural extension
Research agendas: addressing women’s needs in technology development
Human Rights in the Agricultural SectorFood sovereignty and Gender
Codes of Conduct
Fair Trade certification
Key Cross-Cutting Issues in AgricultureHIV/Aids
Gender-based Violence
Health and Nutrition
Education and Literacy
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Men in Smallholder FarmingIdentifying and addressing male gender needs in agriculture
Engaging the support of men and community leaders to support women in farming
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Please contact the SIANI Secretariat!
Melinda Sundell, Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Mob: +46 (0)73 707 8613
Olivia Taghioff, Project Officer
Email: [email protected]
Mob: +46 (0)73 460 7693
Benita Forsman, Member Services
Email: [email protected]