Gender and climate change adaptation : changing rural farmers' livelihood patterns in Kors Krolar District Battambang Province, Cambodia | |
| Author | Norm Sina |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GD-09-08 |
| Subject(s) | Climatic changes--Cambodia--Battambang Farmers--Cambodia--Battambang--Climatic factors Farmers--Cambodia--Battambang--Economic conditions Farmers--Cambodia--Battambang--Social conditions |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Scienc e in Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GD-09-08 |
| Abstract | This paper looks at how the social and economic conditions of people in the rural community under study ar e affected by the negative effects of climate change, particularly droughts. The paper attempts to explore the different gender vulnerabilities in terms of difficulties in using resources as their means to secure their livelihoods outside of farming (when drought makes farming difficult). Men and women farmers are both vulnerable due to increasing workloads and lack of access to information about income generation sources, but their vulnerabilities are usually different. As a result, this gender specific vu lnerability contributes to constraining their adaptation strategies to the negative effects of droughts. In terms of adaptation strategies, men and women farmers pick jobs differently according to their roles in the households as well as based on the avail ability of jobs that they can undertake in the village. As men are assigned to be breadwinners and they are also assigned to do heavy work as they have strong energy, they tend to pick jobs such as cutting wood, bamboo, timber, and hunting because these jo bs required physical strength; however, women who are household heads are required to take on these responsibilities and vulnerabilities as well when needed. As men have more mobility than women they also migrate to work more frequently in response to drou ghts. Women also are found to have some jobs such as helping their husbands in producing charcoal, clearing bush and growing maize for other landowners, and doing wage labour in charcoal production. The paper concludes that these findings are useful for co ntributing to a better understanding about gender vulnerability, and d evelopment workers and organizations will be able to set up their projects more effectively with the lens of gender perspective |
| Year | 2009 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GD-09-08 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Gender and Development Studies (GD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Resurreccion, Bernadette P.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Doneys, Philippe;Vogt, Dietrich Schmidt; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Norway; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2009 |