Resultados de búsqueda - Older women

Social learning, selection, and HIV infection: Evidence from Malawi por Yamauchi, Futoshi, Ueyama, Mika

“…Empirical results show that young women are less likely to be HIV-infected if they observed prime-age deaths among their siblings, whereas HIV infection is found to be positively related to prime-age sibling deaths among older women. …”
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CGIAR Youth Strategy por Lecoutere, Els, Elias, Marlène, Markicevic, Isidora

“…Yet older male youth (20–24) are more likely to move out of FLWS employment than older female youth. …”
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Exploring the gender dynamics in artisanal production of pearl millet and sorghum in Mali por Sylla, Almamy, Yila, Jummai Othniel, Ravula, Padmaja

“…Traditionally, only older women who have reached menopause and are relieved of other family responsibilities, are allowed to own pearl millet or sorghum plots due to social norms determining who can use the harvest and how, and the desire to maintain family unity. …”
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Qualitative gender analysis country report, Cameroon: Building equitable climate resilient African bean and insect sectors por Siri, Bella Ngoh, Munji, Victorine, Ntam, Fidelis, Mafouasson, Hortense, Lutomia, Cosmas, Ouya, Frederick, Ketema, Dessalegn, Nchanji, Eileen

“…In contrast, older women are more involved in planting, harvesting, and selling beans in local markets. …”
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Gender and generation: an intra-household analysis on access to resources in southern Mali por Groote, H.D., N'golo Coulibaly, N.

“…Information was collected through separate group discussions with older men, younger men, and women from six villages. …”
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Feminist approaches to situated knowledge production: Urban flood management in Can Tho City, Vietnam por Ly Quoc Dang, Kawarazuka, Nozomi

“…In addition, they used different social networks to communicate to obtain information related to flood risks and management. Among the women who participated in this research, older and disabled women were more marginalized and less able to overcome flooding than other women due to their physical limitations and lower levels of social and family support. …”
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Understanding gendered coping mechanisms of actors within cassava production in the face of prevailing climate change challenges in Tanzania por Msita, Sarah, Adeyeye, Olajumoke, Mwakanyamale, Devis F., Cole, Steven M.

“…They are forced to diversify into additional income-generating activities, including opting for short-term crops to ensure food and nutrition security. Some older women used indigenous knowledge by sanitizing cassava cuttings with human urine to control root rot diseases, caused by climate change, to build resilience. …”
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Report on consumer acceptability tests of NARITA hybrids in Tanzania and Uganda por Marimo, Pricilla, Nowakunda, K., Aryamanya, W., Azath, H., Babley, H.F., Kazigye, F., Khakasa, E., Kibooga, C., Kibura, J.K., Kindimba, Grace, Kubiriba, Jerome, Magohe, R.B., Magona, I., Masanja, S.R., Massawe, C., Mbongo, D.B., Mgenzi, A.R., Mubiru, D.M., Mugisha, J.A., Mugume, D., Mwabulambo, B.A., Namuddu, M.G., Ndagire, L., Ngabirano, W., Ngulinziva, L.D., Njau, M.C., Nsibirwa, L., Nyemenohi, S., Okurut, A.W., Shimwela, M.M., Swennen, Rony L., Urio, P.A., Bergh, Inge van den

“…At each site, focus group discussions (FGDs) were first conducted with different age groups: young women, young men (<35 years); and older women, older men (>35 years) to ascertain the main products households make using cooking banana cultivars and the preparation method. …”
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In-depth understanding of intra-household decision-making in the cassava value chain in Tanzania por Mwakanyamale, Devis F., Liani, Millicent L., Cole, Steven M.

“…Findings highlight that women engage in cassavarelated activities, yet do not necessarily hold exclusive decision-making powers in these tasks. …”
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Seed and information exchange through social networks: the case of rice farmers of Indonesia and Lao PDR por Tatlonghari, Gerlie, Paris, Thelma, Pede, Valerien, Siliphouthone, Inpong, Suhaeti, Rita

“…The study investigates the structure of information exchange among men and women farmers who were involved in participatory varietal selection (PVS) on submergence-tolerant varieties in pilot communities in Lao PDR and Indonesia. …”
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Assessing gender disparities in farmers’ access and use of climate-smart agriculture in Southern Tanzania por Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Ndunguru, Agness, Kabungo, Catherine, Katunzi, Adolph, Nyamolo, Victor, Ouya, Fredrick Ochieng', Mutua, Mercy, Waswa, Boaz, Cosmas Kweyu Lutomia

“…Results revealed that men dominated climate-adaptation decision-making processes at the household level because of their ownership and control over access to land, and access to agricultural support services. Older men farmers demonstrated a positive and significantly higher likelihood of adopting improved seeds (β = 0.026; p < 0.01), signifying they possess greater accumulated knowledge and wealth compared to women farmers and youths. …”
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Child growth in the time of drought por Hoddinott, John F., Kinsey, Bill

“…By contrast, there is no evidence that older children experience a slowdown in growth. There is some evidence that the loss in growth is unequally distributed with children residing in poorer households and offspring of women who are daughters of the household head appearing to be especially vulnerable.…”
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A comparison in attitudes and activity among different groups of private forest owners in Noarootsi municipality, Estonia por Zeigler, Emma

“…Naturally, only Estonians lived permanently on their properties but a greater share of the Estonian men than women lived permanently on their property. Of the survey’s all respondents, a greater proportion were men than women. …”

Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods por Ambler, Kate, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Maredia, Karim M.

“…In rural Ghana, we randomize the order that household members are asked about and estimate that response fatigue leads to undercounting of labor activities by 8% on average. Women are twice as impacted as men while youth are four times as impacted as older adults, distorting both within-household and population wide comparisons. …”
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Climate Variability and Inequality: Comparing the Experiences of Indonesia and Vietnam por Pacillo, Grazia, Nnguyen Viet, Cuong, Hafianti, Silvi, Abanokova, Kseniya, Dang, Hai-Anh, Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…Households in Indonesia and Vietnam that are poor, rural, older, headed by women, and/or from ethnic minorities bear the biggest burden of variability in climatic conditions. …”
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New nutrition policies for China por Chen, Kevin Z., Wang, Zimeiyi

“…However, China still has high levels of undernutrition, with poor regions and vulnerable groups such as children, women, older people and migrants disproportionally affected. …”
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Interplay of individual and food environment factors shaping diets in the Kisumu urban informal settlements por Musita, Consolata Nolega, Ngala, Sophia, Abong, George, Akingbemisilu, Tosin Harold, Termote, Celine

“…Introduction Malnutrition persists in Kenyan urban informal settlements, disproportionately affecting women and children. This study explores the complex interplay between individual-level and food environment factors and the on influence dietary outcomes for women and children in these settings. …”
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Factors influencing the productivity and efficiency of wheat farmers in Punjab, Pakistan por Battese, George E., Nazli, Hina, Smale, Melinda

“…Scientists in Pakistan are currently developing biofortified wheat varieties to address widespread zinc deficiency, especially among women and children in poorer rural households. The purpose of this paper is to understand how the productivity and efficiency of small-scale and marginal wheat farmers can be improved so that their households may benefit from zinc-fortified varieties.The authors estimate a stochastic frontier production function model with data from a survey of wheat farmers conducted in Punjab, Pakistan in 2011.The productivities of the newer varieties of wheat were significantly greater than the older varieties, as expected. …”
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Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience por ElDidi, Hagar, Bidoli, Thomas, Ringler, Claudia

“…Nevertheless, young men and women have higher resilience compared to older groups in terms of health, mobility and ability to migrate, as well as easier access to the internet as a source of information. …”
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Climate-Smart Cocoa: a gender transformative approach por Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Torvikey, Gertrude Dzifa, Amoah, Alvin, Saeed, Abdul Razak, Obeng, Faustina, Kofituo, Rich Kofi, Asare, Richard

“…The study found that in almost all communities, while older men favoured women’s involvement in decision making and for them to take control of cocoa related decision making, they only accepted this for instrumental reasons such as the benefits that the household will derive from it. …”
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