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Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities

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This keynote presentation was given by Katherine Gibson (Western Sydney University), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia. Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/

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Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities Katherine Gibson Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Seeds of Change Conference April 2-4 2019
Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities
What seeds? What change? Are our seeds fit for the current climate?
Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration Will Steffan et al 2015 “The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration” The Anthropocene Review
Sowing the seeds of gender equality
Sowing the seeds of feeding the world
oikos habitat Economy Environment
Val Plumwood If our species does not survive the ecological crisis, it will probably be due to our failure to imagine and work out new ways to live with the earth, to rework ourselves and our high energy, high consumption, and hyper-instrumental societies adaptively….. We will go onwards in a different mode of humanity, or not at all. (2008)
Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zQjGtg2d0&feature=youtu.be
Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities
Key gender equity themes 13 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut Mama lus frut
Key gender equity themes 15 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
Oil palm small holder family, West New Britain, PNG
Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities
Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities
Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities
Key gender equity themes 20 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
Women farmers gaining access to technical knowledge In Myanmar Men farmers learning about gender analysis in Myanmar Carnegie M, Cornish P, Hwte, KK, and Htwe NN. 2019 Gender, decision-making and farm practice change: An action learning intervention in Myanmar Journal of Rural Studies forthcoming.
Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut Mama lus frut Laca ginger tea community enterprise
Key gender equity themes 23 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
Key gender equity themes 24 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action
https://youtu.be/ut8p7l24Yg 19.00-26.50 Laca ginger tea powder processing
Reciprocal labour Hungos: group work on each other’s land, planting, harvesting Badsanay: exchange of individual labour services Paid in kind Sagod: weeding harvesting rice in return for % of harvest Sanggi: harvesting corn for 1/7 harvest Hagpat: picking fish from net for 1/3 catch Volunteer labour Tingub: regular work maintaining irrigation canals Bayanihan: communal helping out CIVAC: citizen’s voluntary labor services on maintaining roads, public space Alternative credit Kubaway: group savings and credit for fiesta carabao Repa-repa: revolving credit group Tampuhay: group savings, divided yearly Suking tindahan: credit from sari sari stores for basic foods Gifts Dajong: neighborhood mortuary assistance, money, labor and goods Gala: community contributions to wedding celebration and expenses Suki-ay: extending goods and money to families for fiesta, with expectation they will return service Gleaning Hagdaw: collecting corn after harvest Lasik: gleaning coconuts
Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut Mama lus frut Laca ginger tea community enterprise Eka Nari Sangathan
Eka Nari Sangathan, a collective of Adivasi women in Rayagada District, Odisha, India “The land is my womb and the crop is like my growing child” Mami Pedenti
The ‘ice berg’ of seeds Laura Gutierrez Escobar
We in the Eka Nari Sangathan wish to live on our land surrounded by the forest and a river where we would labour together to produce and share the food, look after each other, sing and dance in harmony and where we shall be free of all our pain and misery Arnulu Miniaka
Attending to each other’s pain, providing each other emotional and financial support and looking after one another in times of difficulty, despair and illness, we also laugh, sing and work together creating moments of joy and happiness every time we meet. Deb Pedenti
When we work together, the work feels so easy. It becomes difficult both physically and psychologically when we have no one to share it with.
Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities
What seeds are we sowing? What change are we making? Story 1 The Great Acceleration Story 2 The floating coconut Story 3 Mama lus frut Story 4 Laca ginger tea community enterprise Story 5 Eka Nari Sangathan
Story 1 The challenge of repairing the damage of what has been sown Story 2 Taking back the economy for all Story 3 Women come up (in a business as usual world) Story 4 Women’s collective action (in a community economy) Story 5 Transformative action (agriculture a form of life, singleness a state of emergence)
new language of the diverse economy (more than capitalist economy) imagining and enacting collective actions that diversify the economy identifying and strengthening existing ethical economic practices activating ethical economic subjects starting where we are–building worlds with what is at hand
A different mode of humanity ?
References Carnegie, M., C. Rowland, K. Gibson, K. McKinnon, J. Crawford and C. Slatter 2012 Gender and Economy in Melanesian Communities: A Manual of Indicators and Tools to Track Change https://melanesianeconomies.wordpress.com/research-reports/ Carnegie M, Cornish P, Hwte, KK, and Htwe NN. 2019 Gender, decision-making and farm practice change: An action learning intervention in Myanmar Journal of Rural Studies forthcoming. Chitranshi, B. 2019 Beyond development: postcapitalist and feminist praxis in Adivasi contexts in Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies Edited by E. Klein and C. E Morrero, London: Routledge. Gibson, K., A. Cahill and D. McKay, 2010 Rethinking the dynamics of rural transformation: performing different development pathways in a Philippines municipality Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, 2: 237-255. Gibson K. 2003 Improving productivity of the smallholder oil palm sector in Papua New Guinea: a study of biophysical and socioeconomic interactions. Final report of project ASEM/1999/084, prepared for ACIAR, Canberra. Koczberski, G, G Curry and K Gibson 2001 Improving productivity of the smallholder oil palm sector in Papua New Guinea: A socio-economic study of the Hoskins and Popondetta Schemes The Australian National University, Department of Human Geography, Canberra, 233pp. THANK YOU www.communityeconomies.org

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Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities

  • 1. Building gender equity from the bottom up in agricultural communities Katherine Gibson Institute for Culture and Society Western Sydney University Seeds of Change Conference April 2-4 2019
  • 3. What seeds? What change? Are our seeds fit for the current climate?
  • 4. Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration
  • 5. The Great Acceleration Will Steffan et al 2015 “The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration” The Anthropocene Review
  • 7. Sowing the seeds of feeding the world
  • 9. Val Plumwood If our species does not survive the ecological crisis, it will probably be due to our failure to imagine and work out new ways to live with the earth, to rework ourselves and our high energy, high consumption, and hyper-instrumental societies adaptively….. We will go onwards in a different mode of humanity, or not at all. (2008)
  • 10. Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut
  • 13. Key gender equity themes 13 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
  • 14. Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut Mama lus frut
  • 15. Key gender equity themes 15 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
  • 16. Oil palm small holder family, West New Britain, PNG
  • 20. Key gender equity themes 20 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
  • 21. Women farmers gaining access to technical knowledge In Myanmar Men farmers learning about gender analysis in Myanmar Carnegie M, Cornish P, Hwte, KK, and Htwe NN. 2019 Gender, decision-making and farm practice change: An action learning intervention in Myanmar Journal of Rural Studies forthcoming.
  • 22. Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut Mama lus frut Laca ginger tea community enterprise
  • 23. Key gender equity themes 23 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action Household togetherness Leadership, say and role modelling
  • 24. Key gender equity themes 24 Women ‘come up’ Women’s collective action
  • 26. Reciprocal labour Hungos: group work on each other’s land, planting, harvesting Badsanay: exchange of individual labour services Paid in kind Sagod: weeding harvesting rice in return for % of harvest Sanggi: harvesting corn for 1/7 harvest Hagpat: picking fish from net for 1/3 catch Volunteer labour Tingub: regular work maintaining irrigation canals Bayanihan: communal helping out CIVAC: citizen’s voluntary labor services on maintaining roads, public space Alternative credit Kubaway: group savings and credit for fiesta carabao Repa-repa: revolving credit group Tampuhay: group savings, divided yearly Suking tindahan: credit from sari sari stores for basic foods Gifts Dajong: neighborhood mortuary assistance, money, labor and goods Gala: community contributions to wedding celebration and expenses Suki-ay: extending goods and money to families for fiesta, with expectation they will return service Gleaning Hagdaw: collecting corn after harvest Lasik: gleaning coconuts
  • 27. Lecture Outline Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 The Great Acceleration The floating coconut Mama lus frut Laca ginger tea community enterprise Eka Nari Sangathan
  • 28. Eka Nari Sangathan, a collective of Adivasi women in Rayagada District, Odisha, India “The land is my womb and the crop is like my growing child” Mami Pedenti
  • 29. The ‘ice berg’ of seeds Laura Gutierrez Escobar
  • 30. We in the Eka Nari Sangathan wish to live on our land surrounded by the forest and a river where we would labour together to produce and share the food, look after each other, sing and dance in harmony and where we shall be free of all our pain and misery Arnulu Miniaka
  • 31. Attending to each other’s pain, providing each other emotional and financial support and looking after one another in times of difficulty, despair and illness, we also laugh, sing and work together creating moments of joy and happiness every time we meet. Deb Pedenti
  • 32. When we work together, the work feels so easy. It becomes difficult both physically and psychologically when we have no one to share it with.
  • 34. What seeds are we sowing? What change are we making? Story 1 The Great Acceleration Story 2 The floating coconut Story 3 Mama lus frut Story 4 Laca ginger tea community enterprise Story 5 Eka Nari Sangathan
  • 35. Story 1 The challenge of repairing the damage of what has been sown Story 2 Taking back the economy for all Story 3 Women come up (in a business as usual world) Story 4 Women’s collective action (in a community economy) Story 5 Transformative action (agriculture a form of life, singleness a state of emergence)
  • 36. new language of the diverse economy (more than capitalist economy) imagining and enacting collective actions that diversify the economy identifying and strengthening existing ethical economic practices activating ethical economic subjects starting where we are–building worlds with what is at hand
  • 37. A different mode of humanity ?
  • 38. References Carnegie, M., C. Rowland, K. Gibson, K. McKinnon, J. Crawford and C. Slatter 2012 Gender and Economy in Melanesian Communities: A Manual of Indicators and Tools to Track Change https://melanesianeconomies.wordpress.com/research-reports/ Carnegie M, Cornish P, Hwte, KK, and Htwe NN. 2019 Gender, decision-making and farm practice change: An action learning intervention in Myanmar Journal of Rural Studies forthcoming. Chitranshi, B. 2019 Beyond development: postcapitalist and feminist praxis in Adivasi contexts in Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies Edited by E. Klein and C. E Morrero, London: Routledge. Gibson, K., A. Cahill and D. McKay, 2010 Rethinking the dynamics of rural transformation: performing different development pathways in a Philippines municipality Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, 2: 237-255. Gibson K. 2003 Improving productivity of the smallholder oil palm sector in Papua New Guinea: a study of biophysical and socioeconomic interactions. Final report of project ASEM/1999/084, prepared for ACIAR, Canberra. Koczberski, G, G Curry and K Gibson 2001 Improving productivity of the smallholder oil palm sector in Papua New Guinea: A socio-economic study of the Hoskins and Popondetta Schemes The Australian National University, Department of Human Geography, Canberra, 233pp. THANK YOU www.communityeconomies.org