Browsing by Author "Agriesti, Keri"

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    Ethnopedology Annotated Bibliography: CCRA-7
    Agriesti, Keri (Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, 2012)
    This is an updated annotated bibliography of ethnopedology articles created for the Gender CCRA-7 Gendered Perspectives for Conservation Agriculture: Local soil knowledge and crop-livestock interaction from 2010-2011. This bibliography was used to inform field methods, student thesis work, and the CCRA-7 Research Strategy.
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    Gender and participatory mapping: Local knowledge and empowerment in development research
    Christie, Maria Elisa; Luebbering, C.; Agriesti, Keri; Byrne, M.; Montgomery, K.; Van Houweling, Emily; Zseleczky, Laura; Harman, Mary (2011)
    Participatory mapping as a research technique is a means for women to express their spaces and resources. This poster explores mapping as both a process and product in field work with smallholder farmers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It draws on experiences including women and mapping gendered spaces. Examples include mapping Kitchenspace, mapping the “path of the peanut,” the “path of the pesticide,” and agricultural value chains. It considers the challenges and benefits of using participatory mapping, gendered and non-gendered findings, and the role of the mapping facilitator. The authors conclude that participatory mapping provides opportunities for semi-literate and illiterate women to contribute their knowledge and perspectives to development research projects as well as providing pedagogical opportunities for action research. Discussion with mapping participants and a gender analysis of the resulting maps can contribute to improved understanding of social, cultural, economic, and environmental issues.
  • Gender Cross-Cutting Research Activity Gendered Perspectives for Conservation Agriculture: Local soil knowledge and crop-livestock interaction
    Agriesti, Keri; Christie, Maria Elisa; Martin, Jess (2011)
    This is a poster presentation from the SANREM CRSP Annual Meeting 2011. It covers the Gender CCRA's research goal in mapping gendered landscapes and local soil knowledge.
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    Gender, local soil knowledge, and access to resources in the Andean Region, Bolivia
    Agriesti, Keri; Christie, Maria Elisa; Botello, Rubén C. (2012)
    A paper presentation given at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in 2012. The abstract submitted: "In smallholder farming communities, men and women have access to and control over different spaces in the landscape, forming gendered knowledges, beliefs, and perceptions based on their experiences. In the Andean region of Bolivia, these gendered knowledges and landscapes are marked by varied mountain geography, diverse cultural practices, and a history of land reform and agricultural changes. This research will present findings based primarily on student fieldwork documenting gendered landscapes of local soil knowledge and access to resources in a Quechua-speaking, smallholder farming community. Participatory mapping and participant observation were used to capture gendered access to land and livestock to people's everyday connection with the soil. The purpose was to identify gender-related factors that contribute to conservation agricultural production systems (CAPS) as a means to address soil health in gender-inclusive and gender-equitable ways. This work contributes to an understanding of nature-society relationships from a gender perspective. Research design was influenced by literature from ethnopedology, political ecology, and feminist political ecology. Methods included participatory mapping, photo interpretation, focus groups, GPS mapping of fields, activity charts, participant observation, and a host-family stay. Analysis of data illustrates men and women's different knowledges in correlation with their different use of and access to various landscape features" (Agriesti; Abstract submitted for presentation).
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    Gendered perspectives on sheep, livelihoods, and sense of place in Sank’ayani Alto, Bolivia
    Christie, Maria Elisa; Agriesti, Keri; Botello, Rubén C. (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech, Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED), 2012)
    Cultural practices and gender roles influence women and men farmers’ specialized knowledge of, access to, and control over different spaces and resources in the landscape. This presentation explores local soil knowledge and gendered space in a Quechua-speaking, smallholder farming community in the Andean Region of Bolivia from the perspective of cultural and political ecology. This work is a part of a larger international collaborative research-for-development program targeting conservation agricultural production systems (CAPS) as a means to address food security and soil health with localized farming practices. Qualitative research methods included focus groups, participatory mapping, plot visits, and listing soil names and characteristics. These revealed that though some activities are shared by men and women, there are gender differences in activities, perceptions, and use of land. Women’s livelihood and sense of place are linked to pasturing sheep, planting potatoes, and making chuño. Men’s income- earning activities include tilling land for hire. Implementation of CAPS could lead women to lose control over spaces and local knowledge essential to their livelihoods; as well, the minimum-tillage component of CAPS could cause men to lose money from community labor or renting out cows and tractors.
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    Gendered Soils Knowledge, Practices, and Access to Assets in CAPS: Student Research in the Gender CCRA
    Christie, Maria Elisa; Harman, Mary; Agriesti, Keri; Sumner, Daniel M.; Botello, Rubén C.; Bagares, Isidra; Mercado, Jun; Ella, Victor B.; Reyes, Manuel R.; Alwang, Jeffrey R. (2012)
    This poster discusses the student research of the Gender Cross Cutting Research Activity (Gender CCRA) of SANREM CRSP. The purpose of the Gender CCRA is to identify gender-based constraints and opportunities for conservation agricultural production systems (CAPS) adoption across sites and make recommendations regarding gender-based practices and policies to improve the success of CAPS. It uses a mixed methods approach that incorporates both qualitative and quantitative methods. Graduate students have been an essential component in conducting research for the Gender CCRA in several sites, including Bolvia, the Philippines, and Cambodia. This poster summarizes the approach and presents preliminary findings from their individual projects.
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    Local soil knowledge and gendered landscapes in Bolivia and the Philippines: Can GIS tell their story?
    Harman, Mary (2012)
    This research will pose questions about using mixed methods for research on gender, local soil knowledge, and agricultural resources. It presents qualitative GIS methods used in sample households in the Bolivian Andes to discuss its cross-cultural applicability for future fieldwork in the Philippines. It will be part of the Gender Cross-Cutting Research Activity of SANREM CRSP in collaboration with a research-for-development organization in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, Mindanao. The goal is to combine qualitative methods with geospatial techniques to identify and document gendered knowledge, agricultural practices, and access to resources in order to better understand the relationship between gender, agriculture, and landscape. By incorporating multiple methods we hope to identify gender based constraints and opportunities at the household level that are relevant to conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS).
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    Participatory mapping and gendered space: Kitchenspace, value chains, peanuts, and pesticides
    Christie, Maria Elisa; Luebbering, Candice; Zseleczky, Laura; Agriesti, Keri; Harman, Mary (2014-08-26)
    Participatory mapping can be used to identify gender differences in the landscape. Beginning with women mapping dualities in “kitchenspace” in Mexico, researchers used this qualitative research technique to map the “path of the peanut,” the “path of the pesticide,” and agricultural value chains. In countries where women have considerably lower literacy rates than men, participatory mapping can help increase women’s participation in development research. In addition, working in women-only and men-only groups is a strategy for collecting sex-disaggregated spatial data that lends itself to gender analysis. Findings include the importance of food preparation spaces and gendered differences in access to transportation.
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    Political ecology and feminist political ecology annotated bibliography: CCRA-7
    Agriesti, Keri (Blacksburg, VA: SANREM CRSP, 2012)
    This is an updated annotated bibliography of political ecology and feminist political ecology articles created for the Gender CCRA-7 Gendered Perspectives for Conservation Agriculture: Local soil knowledge and crop-livestock interaction from 2010-2011. This bibliography was used to inform field methods, student thesis work, and the CCRA-7 Research Strategy.
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    Political ecology, gendered landscapes, and sense of place: Local soil knowledge and access to agricultural resources in smallholder farming communities in Cochabamba District, Bolivia
    Agriesti, Keri; Christie, Maria Elisa (2011)
    This poster presentation draws from the literature on political ecology, sense of place, ethnopedology,
  • Soils knowledge and gendered landscapes in Bolivia and the Philippines: Can GIS tell their story?
    Harman, Mary; Christie, Maria Elisa; Agriesti, Keri; Botello, Rubén C.; Dayo, H. (2011)
    This poster explores the challenges of mixing GIS and qualitative methods in a research-for-development context with a collaborative research program financed by USAID. It is a part of a pilot project to identify gender-based constraints and opportunities for conservation agriculture production systems in smallholder farming communities. Our goal is to map gendered landscapes and local soils knowledge linking participatory mapping with GPS mapping. Data gathering has been completed in Bolivia and initiated in the Philippines. The overall purpose of the project is to understand how changes in farming practices that form part of conservation agriculture production systems—such as leaving crop cover on the field—will affect men and women’s use and knowledge of the land. It will present qualitative GIS methods used in sample households in the Bolivian Andes to discuss its cross-cultural applicability for future fieldwork in the Philippines. This research represents a novel approach to using GIS to organize, analyze, and present data drawn from multiple methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative. We present a narrow but multi-layered “slice” of data drawn from multiple methods, juxtaposing scientific knowledge with local, traditional knowledge about soils. Other methods included field and household visits, soil sampling, and GIS analysis. Preliminary findings show that men and women’s local soil knowledge is related to gendered access and use of space.