Gendered perspectives on sheep, livelihoods, and sense of place in Sank’ayani Alto, Bolivia

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dc.contributor.authorChristie, Maria Elisaen
dc.contributor.authorAgriesti, Kerien
dc.contributor.authorBotello, Rubén C.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:29:21Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:29:21Zen
dc.date.issued2012en
dc.description.abstractCultural 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.en
dc.description.notesCCRA-7 (Gendered Knowledge)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/vnd.ms-powerpointen
dc.identifier5324en
dc.identifier.citationPresented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG), Merida, Mexico, 11-13 January 2012en
dc.identifier.other5324_CCRA_7_CLAG_final_Jan15.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/69916en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherBlacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech, Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectConservation agricultureen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectIndigenous communityen
dc.subjectFood securityen
dc.subjectMenen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectLocal knowledgeen
dc.subjectCultural ecologyen
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectAndesen
dc.subjectPotatoesen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titleGendered perspectives on sheep, livelihoods, and sense of place in Sank’ayani Alto, Boliviaen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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