How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?

Women play important roles in the dairy sector in Tanzania yet many women face local gender norms which inhibit them from benefitting from their enterprises. This affects women's empowerment and the development of effective livestock businesses.This study addresses the question: How do women's empow...

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Autores principales: Achandi, Esther L., Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Galiè, Alessandra, Omore, Amos O., Jeremiah, Adolf
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Frontiers Media 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132140
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author Achandi, Esther L.
Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
Galiè, Alessandra
Omore, Amos O.
Jeremiah, Adolf
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Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
Galiè, Alessandra
Jeremiah, Adolf
Omore, Amos O.
author_facet Achandi, Esther L.
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Galiè, Alessandra
Omore, Amos O.
Jeremiah, Adolf
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description Women play important roles in the dairy sector in Tanzania yet many women face local gender norms which inhibit them from benefitting from their enterprises. This affects women's empowerment and the development of effective livestock businesses.This study addresses the question: How do women's empowerment and gender norms affect women's engagement in livestock business? To respond, this study explores how women attempt to negotiate gender norms in order to create a niche for their agribusiness, and thereby to empower themselves. Since gender norms are diverse, research was undertaken in 2021 with agripreneurs running dairy-related businesses in two regions of Tanzania. Gender-disaggregated focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and individual interviews were carried out in Kilimanjaro and Tanga regions which had been target sites for the bigger Maziwa Zaidi Phase II project in Tanzania. In total, 24 women dairy farmers, 25 men dairy farmers, 20 women agripreneurs and 22 men agripreneurs involved in selling feeds, milk collection and agro-veterinary goods and services such as artificial insemination and livestock extension participated in the FGDs. Twelve women and 16 men were interviewed as KIIs while 12 women and 15 men were interviewed individually.Moreover through gender norms gatekeeping, significant relations such as husbands and community members can also act as empowerment gatekeepers reining in women's expression and experience of empowerment, especially if her husband is economically disempowered while she is.
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spelling CGSpace1321402025-12-08T10:29:22Z How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania? Achandi, Esther L. Farnworth, Cathy Rozel Galiè, Alessandra Omore, Amos O. Jeremiah, Adolf women dairying value chains women's empowerment gender Women play important roles in the dairy sector in Tanzania yet many women face local gender norms which inhibit them from benefitting from their enterprises. This affects women's empowerment and the development of effective livestock businesses.This study addresses the question: How do women's empowerment and gender norms affect women's engagement in livestock business? To respond, this study explores how women attempt to negotiate gender norms in order to create a niche for their agribusiness, and thereby to empower themselves. Since gender norms are diverse, research was undertaken in 2021 with agripreneurs running dairy-related businesses in two regions of Tanzania. Gender-disaggregated focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and individual interviews were carried out in Kilimanjaro and Tanga regions which had been target sites for the bigger Maziwa Zaidi Phase II project in Tanzania. In total, 24 women dairy farmers, 25 men dairy farmers, 20 women agripreneurs and 22 men agripreneurs involved in selling feeds, milk collection and agro-veterinary goods and services such as artificial insemination and livestock extension participated in the FGDs. Twelve women and 16 men were interviewed as KIIs while 12 women and 15 men were interviewed individually.Moreover through gender norms gatekeeping, significant relations such as husbands and community members can also act as empowerment gatekeepers reining in women's expression and experience of empowerment, especially if her husband is economically disempowered while she is. 2023 2023-10-04T19:45:28Z 2023-10-04T19:45:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132140 en Open Access Frontiers Media Achandi, E., Farnworth, C.R., Galiè, A., Omore, A. and Adolf, J. 2023. How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania? Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7
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dairying
value chains
women's empowerment
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Achandi, Esther L.
Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
Galiè, Alessandra
Omore, Amos O.
Jeremiah, Adolf
How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?
title How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?
title_full How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?
title_fullStr How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?
title_full_unstemmed How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?
title_short How do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women's engagement in local dairy value chains in Tanzania?
title_sort how do local gender norms interact with local conceptualisations of empowerment to shape women s engagement in local dairy value chains in tanzania
topic women
dairying
value chains
women's empowerment
gender
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132140
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