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News & Updates

    • July 3, 2024

    • Writeshop to develop a Field guide on Gender and Livestock

    • Women’s work is critical to farming in general and livestock care in particular. This is especially so among marginalised and disadvantaged farming, shepherding and pastoral communities. Yet, women’s agroecological knowledge, skills and practices related to the daily care, management and sustainability of livestock and small ruminants have been undervalued both traditionally and by modern animal husbandry. Despite ‘gender’ being a buzz word in theory, policy and interventions, researchers and practitioners have struggled to understand and transform prevailing gender biases.

      In an attempt to address this, Anthra with the Indian Pastoral Network and the Centre for Social Ecology organised a workshop in Pune (March 2023) https://www.anthra.org/news/gender-livestock-evolving-research-strategies/. This was attended by about 50 participants. Most were young action researchers, trained in diverse disciplines and working in varied locations across India; some were community representatives. As experiences and perspectives were shared, the workshop served to open up disciplinary silos and forge cross-disciplinary conversations that helped to identify the specific needs of researchers and field workers engaging with livestock and pastoral communities.

      A core group of mainly young researchers and practitioners then decided to take this initiative forward with support from Anthra and Swissnex K2A. The aim was to produce a range of materials (written and audiovisual) that would enable action researchers and others develop a holistic appreciation of the challenges, negotiate real-life situations, and evolve methods to integrate gender concerns in their work in the field. After some months of brainstorming and interactions the group met again at a ‘writeshop’ in the outskirts of Bangalore (June 2024) to frame a Gender and Livestock hand book . This is only the first step and we realise that on this journey, we have to walk the path to find it.

      View: https://www.anthra.org/news/gender-livestock-evolving-research-strategies/

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