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1 Meinzen-Dick, R.; Janssen, M. A.; Kandikuppa, S.; Chaturvedi, R.; Rao, K.; Theis, S.. 2018. Playing games to save water: collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India. World Development, 107:40-53. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.006]
Groundwater management ; Water conservation ; Collective action ; Game theory ; Human behaviour ; Experimentation ; Groundwater table ; Crops ; Stakeholders ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Research organizations ; Communities ; Models / India / Andhra Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048587)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18300445/pdfft?md5=edf7de8abb3f4dffd9577674b0b40969&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X18300445-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048587.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048587.pdf
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Groundwater is one of the most challenging common pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of collective action games to not only measure propensity for cooperation, but to improve local understanding of groundwater interrelationships and stimulate collective governance of groundwater, based on a pilot study in Andhra Pradesh, India. The games simulate crop choice and consequences for the aquifer. These were followed by a community debriefing, which provided an entry point for discussing the interconnectedness of groundwater use, to affect mental models about groundwater. A slightly modified game was played in the same communities, one year later. Our study finds communication within the game increased the likelihood of groups reaching sustainable extraction levels in the second year of play, but not the first. Individual payments to participants based on how they played in the game had no effect on crop choice. Either repeated experience with the games or the revised structure of the game evoked more cooperation in the second year, outweighing other factors influencing behavior, such as education, gender, and trust index scores. After the games were played, a significantly higher proportion of communities adopted water registers and rules to govern groundwater, compared to other communities in the same NGO water commons program. Because groundwater levels are affected by many factors, games alone will not end groundwater depletion. However, games can contribute to social learning about the role of crop choice and collective action, to motivate behavior change toward more sustainable groundwater extraction.
2 Pradhan, R.; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Theis, S.. 2019. Property rights, intersectionality, and women's empowerment in Nepal. Journal of Rural Studies, 70:26-35. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.05.003]
Property rights ; Gender ; Role of women ; Empowerment ; Households ; Personal property ; Social aspects ; Customary law ; Ethnic groups ; Norms ; Living standards ; Life cycle / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049400)
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Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women's rights to property, especially to physical assets such as land and livestock. However, the relationship between property and women's empowerment is more complex than generally assumed because of the overlapping and dynamic nature of property rights. In this paper, we explore how property rights affect the empowerment of women at different stages of the life cycle and different social locations, ethnicities, household structures, and social classes, using the lens of intersectionality. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted for the “Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of a Livestock Transfer Program in Nepal,” we examine patterns in women's strategies to exercise specific rights over joint and personal property within their households. The findings show that legal categories of property rights in Nepal fail to account for nuanced rights to assets shared within households. Rather than emphasize individual control over assets for women's empowerment, the social relations around property need to be considered to understand which rights women value. The paper makes recommendations for how research and development projects, especially in South Asia, can avoid misinterpreting asset and empowerment data by incorporating nuance around the concepts of property rights over the life cycle.
3 Theis, S.; Lefore, Nicole; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Bryan, E. 2018. What happens after technology adoption?: gendered aspects of small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania. Agriculture and Human Values, 35(3):671-684. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9862-8]
Irrigation ; Small scale systems ; Technology transfer ; Agriculture ; Gender ; Women's empowerment ; Use rights ; Women's participation ; Decision making ; Households ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Communities / Ethiopia / Ghana / United Republic of Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049870)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10460-018-9862-8.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049870.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049870.pdf
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Diverse agricultural technologies are promoted to increase yields and incomes, save time, improve food and nutritional security, and even empower women. Yet a gender gap in technology adoption remains for many agricultural technologies, even for those that are promoted for women. This paper complements the literature on gender and technology adoption, which largely focuses on reasons for low rates of female technology adoption, by shifting attention to what happens within a household after it adopts a technology. Understanding the expected benefits and costs of adoption, from the perspective of women users in households with adult males, can help explain observed technology adoption rates and why technology adoption is often not sustained in the longer term. Drawing on qualitative data from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania, this paper develops a framework for examining the intrahousehold distribution of benefits from technology adoption, focusing on small-scale irrigation technologies. The framework contributes to the conceptual and empirical exploration of joint control over technology by men and women in the same household. Efforts to promote technology adoption for agricultural development and women’s empowerment would benefit from an understanding of intrahousehold control over technology to avoid interpreting technology adoption as an end in and of itself.
4 Theis, S.; Bekele, R. D.; Lefore, Nicole; Meinzen-Dick, R.; Ringler, C. 2018. Considering gender when promoting small-scale irrigation technologies: guidance for inclusive irrigation interventions. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 8p. (IFPRI-REACH Project Note)
Farmer-led irrigation ; Small scale systems ; Gender analysis ; Women ; Technology ; Innovation adoption ; Constraints ; Awareness ; Inclusion ; Irrigation programs ; Indicators
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050438)
https://reachwater.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gender-Toolkit-IFPRI.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050438.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050438.pdf
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