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Introduction
My key interest is in multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional research involving rural communities. I have focused on the inter/intra-household dynamics of family farming, with an eye to improving institutional support through policy and strengthened organizations. My key areas of interest include:
Gender issues in rural organization and policy
Participatory research methods and tools
Gender relations in natural resource management and agroecological sustainability.
Current institution
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December 2012 - December 2016
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- Advised the program «Incorporation of a gender perspective into bio-physical research on the management of forestry resources». Designed and facilitated training in participatory research methods.
Education
September 1987 - February 1992
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Publications (39)
Scientific-technological knowledge maintains the anthropocentric power-pattern and exploitive attitude with regard to nature, but sustainability science asks for an integration of territorial and decontextualized knowledge systems. Visual participatory methodologies involving diverse local stakeholder facilitate dialogue on environmental and sustai...
Introducción Este artículo busca reflexionar sobre los efectos e impactos del Covid 19 en la agricultura familiar de los Andes y la Amazonía en Perú. Las miradas alrededor de la pandemia tienden a enfocarse en las poblaciones urbanas invisibilizando a las poblaciones rurales, altamente vulnerables y principales proveedores de alimentos para las ciu...
Since the 1970s, Community forestry (CF) initiatives have sought to combine sustainable forestry, community participation and poverty alleviation. Like other community-based forms of natural resource management (CBNRM), CF has been lauded for its potential to involve local people in conservation while opening new opportunities for economic developm...
A report on the impact of the Tajimat Project funded by the Interamerican Bank and The Plan bi-National Peru-Ecuador
Participatory research on forests has been commended for fostering social learning, innovation, community empowerment, social inclusion, and leading to more sustainable resource management. Yet, critiques of participatory approaches – and of the simplistic ways they are, at times, employed to address gender and social exclusion – also abound. These...
In taking on the task of theorizing connections, Arora-Jonsson faces the challenge of unraveling the threads that lead to assumptions like “gender equality and empowerment logically follow development and modernity and vice versa” (p. 29). The book explores the complexity and multiple layers of power relations in which men and women are involved, i...
Prepared from research done for the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas
Research findings from ICARDA Legume Value Chain Project
The Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) evolved from the belief that FAO could have a greater impact on reducing poverty and food insecurity, if its wealth of talent and experience were integrated into a more flexible and demand-responsive team approach. The LSP, which is executed by FAO with funding provided by DfID, works through teams of FAO staf...
Collaborative management of natural resources requires that multiple stakeholders come together to negotiate agreements. Who is a stakeholder, what is the boundary and the definition of an issue, and who has legitimacy to convene are interrelated, systemic questions. To address this challenge, this paper provides a conceptual framework with nine Co...
Abstract Inthe field of natural resource management (NRM), which emerged as a new integration domain in the agricultural sciences, participatory research is conceptually and operationally still in its infancy and a range of activities are labeled ‘participatory research’. The paper aims at shedding,some,light on this confusion. Based on a,review of...
Farmer field schools (FFS) and local agricultural research committees (CIALs) are participatory platforms for improving decision-making capacity and stimulating local innovation for sustainable agriculture. FFS offer community-based, non-formal education to groups of 20–25 farmers. Discovery-based learning is related to agroecological principles in...
Farmers, local extension workers and NGO field staff play increasingly more important roles in 'community based' agriculture and natural resource management projects or programs. Ideas about priority problems and how they might be solved are expected to come from the community. A bottom-up, participatory approach to project design and implementatio...
The paper provides a typology of approaches to innovation development: Four prototypical approaches were identified and described along key characteristics (objectives, types of participation, actors involved, roles, procedures, research methods). Most participatory research activities in the CGIAR are at the level of applied and adaptive research,...
Knowledge is generated by communities, over time, to allow them to understand and cope with their particular agroecological and socioeconomic environment (Brouwers 1993). Such knowledge — referred to as " local, " " indigenous, " or " traditional " — can be termed science, because it is generated and transformed through a systematic process of obse...
In the field of natural resource management (NRM), which emerged as a new integration domain in the agricultural sciences, participatory research is conceptually and operationally still in its infancy and a range of activities are labeled 'participatory research'. The paper aims at shedding some light on this confusion. Based on a review of literat...
