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Browsing by Author "van Koppen, B."

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  • Beyond fetching water for livestock: A gendered sustainable livelihood framework to assess livestock-water productivity
    Van Hoeve, E.; van Koppen, B. (Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institure (ILRI), 2005)
    In this paper, the authors assert that within recent development initiatives aimed at improving access to quality water, the use of water in livestock maintenance and production as a livelihood strategy is largely ignored. Livestock is an important asset for many individuals and communities in poor countries. However livestock production is complex, varying by region and culture, and affecting and benefiting men and women differently based on their roles within the system and access and control of assets. Therefore, the authors suggest using a Gendered Sustainable Livelihood Framework (GSLF) to examine the gendered relations of livestock production with respect to necessary inputs, generated outputs, and factors affecting the distribution of outputs. The paper concludes by relating the framework to similar frameworks, and offers recommendations for applying the framework in field work.
  • Empowering women to achieve food security
    IFPRI (Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001)
    These 12 briefs were prepared for IFPRI's 2001 conference, "Sustainable Food Security For All By 2020." Increasing women's assets in terms of physical, human, social, and financial resources not only empowers them but also has direct implications for their families and communities. However, progress cannot be made without legal and institutional support. These briefs examine the strategies necessary to increase women's access to multiple forms of capital and, in turn, reduce poverty and achieve food security.
  • Gender in lift irrigation schemes in East Gujarat, India
    Saini, H.; van Koppen, B. (Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute, 2001)
    This study has four main sections, each with its own research question, which together explain the importance of women involvement in family farm and irrigation management. The first section identifies gender issues in the community-founded irrigation program that is sponsored by Navinchandra Mafatlal Sadguru Water and Development Foundation (Sadguru) in East Gurjarat, India. The second and third sections look at gender aspects within a larger context and explain the general effects of the program. In the fourth section the researchers look at the gender factors within irrigation management, and at the methods employed by Sadguru to improve female participation in irrigation cooperatives.
  • Sharing the last drop: Water scarcity, irrigation and gendered poverty eradication
    van Koppen, B. (London, UK: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 1999)
    The article addresses the issue of water scarcity and protection of the poorest. It shares a few cases where poor women and men had protected water rights, and when new infrastructures were developed water rights were lost or denied. The author points out that it is important to protect and strengthen water access to the poorest to ensure poverty alleviation. The article concludes by defending the need for new and more complex infrastructures that prevent the poorest from loosing access to water and to allow their water needs to be met. This later implies including the poorest in water scarcity management.