Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Gender and Social Capital 235 shaping peoples access to and use of natural resources (Agrawal, 2000; Cleaver, 1998a; Poats, 2000 ...

236 Communities and Social Capital nature but due to ‘dynamic and complex gender identities in which men and women experience bo ...

Gender and Social Capital 237 social networks and value of collaboration as the gender division of labour often obliges women to ...

238 Communities and Social Capital 2 Women and men may value collaboration differently. Women often have more everyday experienc ...

Gender and Social Capital 239 which group members collaborate, we examined (i) how often the groups get together for meetings or ...

240 Communities and Social Capital 4 Group maturity, here defined as NRM groups’ ‘potential for self-defining and self-sustainin ...

Gender and Social Capital 241 world) related to 33 programmes working on NRM in 20 countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia ( ...

242 Communities and Social Capital involved. To moderate potential biases, we have put emphasis in the analysis on more tangible ...

Gender and Social Capital 243 men’s, women’s or mixed groups – a key aspect of relational social capital and of the argument use ...

244 Communities and Social Capital groups. In contrast, men’s groups work together on less frequent activities like community in ...

Gender and Social Capital 245 to women’s groups than to men’s groups only or mixed groups (31.3 per cent com- pared with 16.7 pe ...

246 Communities and Social Capital these could have been interpreted in different ways in the questionnaire. Conse- quently, res ...

Gender and Social Capital 247 Table 12.2 Proportion of men’s, mixed and women’s groups measured according to seven criteria in e ...

248 Communities and Social Capital Table 12.2 (continued) Seven criteria measured Group type Men Mixed Women %N%N%N Group format ...

Gender and Social Capital 249 represents ‘collective capacity’ as it is a composite of four variables: independence from externa ...

250 Communities and Social Capital capital may translate into different NRM outcomes because norms of reciprocity facilitate col ...

Gender and Social Capital 251 However, we recommend careful analysis of the potentials for the spillover effect of gender-differ ...

252 Communities and Social Capital improve NRM. Krishna’s question about how to tailor programmes to build col- lective action b ...

Gender and Social Capital 253 Cleaver, F. 1998a. Incentives and informal institutions: Gender and the management of water. Agric ...

254 Communities and Social Capital Ostrom, E. 1990. Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. ...