Gender and land use planning in agroforestry farm households : a case study in Bogra District, Bangladesh | |
| Author | Ahmed, Md. Iqbal |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GD-07-07 |
| Subject(s) | Land use--Bangladesh--Planning Women and land use planning--Bangladesh Agroforestry|zBangladesh |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GD-07-07 |
| Abstract | The study discusses the impacts of an agroforestry project in homesteads on gender relations among women-only members of a Project Group. The research revealed that new agroforestry practices were not effectively employed in the first place and traditional cultivation practices remained. While women were more active in the project, decision making on land use was still controlled by husbands and fathers-in-law. Women's workloads increased as a result of the project and there did not seem to be a joint sharing of productive and reproductive responsibilities. Gender issues in the project were confined to awareness raising on domestic violence and did not integrate gender issues of disproportionate access and control to resources, thus resulting in a high participation of women in project activities but without commensurate advances into their social empowerment. The study demonstrates that while natural resource management projects just like the agroforestry project in this study may consider gender issues, these are narrowly applied to their daily livelihoods and household relations in decision making |
| Year | 2007 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GD-07-07 |
| 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;Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | International Development Research Centre (IDRC)AIT Fellowship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2007 |