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Accepted Paper:
Women centered agricultural knowledge production for just and sustainable climate policie
Elisapeththu Hoole
(University of Cambridge)
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines the contributions of women to agricultural production in a dry-zone area of Northern Sri Lanka, and presents data from recent interviews with 50-women farmers. It intends to reconceptualize and 'ungender' institutional forms of knowledge production in agricultural policy design.
Paper long abstract:
The knowledge base for sustainable agricultural policy is fundamentally masculinized. Consequently, policy impacts empower and benefit male farmers while overlooking the significant portion of women engaged in production. This paper examines sustainable farming techniques practiced by women in a dry-zone area of Northern Sri Lanka as an alternative source of knowledge in conceptualizing sustainable climate policies.
Women in Sri Lanka play a substantial role in the agricultural sector: 23% of primary operators in Sri Lanka are women, 19% of agricultural households are headed by women, 42% of economically active women in Sri Lanka are employed in the agriculture sector and women constitute 38% of the paid agriculture workforce (DoCS, 2018, 2019). Despite having a significant role in sustaining the sector, agricultural policies do not contain specific gender considerations supporting women as independent agents in commercial production (Climate Change Secretariat, 2012; MoEF, 2008). Sustainable development for women in agriculture will remain elusive as long as policies framing the sector are dominated by male-centered knowledge and practice.
This paper intends to address gender gaps in how knowledge of sustainable agriculture in dry-zones is conceived by presenting ignored concepts of sustainable development as presented by 50 women commercial level organic and natural farmers in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The study draws from interviews among communities rebuilding the sector after three decades of conflict displacements that disrupted traditional forms of knowledge inheritance. In doing so, this paper intends to extend fresh data to reconcile current male-dominated policies with the lived experiences of women commercial farmers.
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Accepted Paper:
Elisapeththu Hoole (University of Cambridge)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
The knowledge base for sustainable agricultural policy is fundamentally masculinized. Consequently, policy impacts empower and benefit male farmers while overlooking the significant portion of women engaged in production. This paper examines sustainable farming techniques practiced by women in a dry-zone area of Northern Sri Lanka as an alternative source of knowledge in conceptualizing sustainable climate policies.
Women in Sri Lanka play a substantial role in the agricultural sector: 23% of primary operators in Sri Lanka are women, 19% of agricultural households are headed by women, 42% of economically active women in Sri Lanka are employed in the agriculture sector and women constitute 38% of the paid agriculture workforce (DoCS, 2018, 2019). Despite having a significant role in sustaining the sector, agricultural policies do not contain specific gender considerations supporting women as independent agents in commercial production (Climate Change Secretariat, 2012; MoEF, 2008). Sustainable development for women in agriculture will remain elusive as long as policies framing the sector are dominated by male-centered knowledge and practice.
This paper intends to address gender gaps in how knowledge of sustainable agriculture in dry-zones is conceived by presenting ignored concepts of sustainable development as presented by 50 women commercial level organic and natural farmers in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The study draws from interviews among communities rebuilding the sector after three decades of conflict displacements that disrupted traditional forms of knowledge inheritance. In doing so, this paper intends to extend fresh data to reconcile current male-dominated policies with the lived experiences of women commercial farmers.
Leaving, Living and Learning: Knowledge Production and its Impact on Designing Just Sustainable Futures
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -