Gender gap in perspectives of the impacts of degradation and restoration on ecosystem services in Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationAlliance for Bioversity International and CIATen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierPowell Mponela: 0000-0003-4269-0663
cg.creator.identifierErmias Aynekulu: 0000-0002-1955-6995
cg.creator.identifierMohammed Ebrahim: 0000-0002-8800-2371
cg.creator.identifierWuletawu Abera: 0000-0002-3657-5223
cg.creator.identifierLulseged Tamene: 0000-0002-4846-2330
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4764en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1099-145Xen
cg.issue15en
cg.journalLand Degradation and Developmenten
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen
cg.volume34en
dc.contributor.authorMponela, Powellen
dc.contributor.authorAynekulu, Ermiasen
dc.contributor.authorEbrahim, Mohammeden
dc.contributor.authorAbate, Tsionen
dc.contributor.authorAbera, Wuletawuen
dc.contributor.authorZaremba, Haleyen
dc.contributor.authorElias, Marlèneen
dc.contributor.authorTamene, Lulseged D.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-02T16:56:34Zen
dc.date.available2023-06-02T16:56:34Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/130611
dc.titleGender gap in perspectives of the impacts of degradation and restoration on ecosystem services in Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractThe importance of land restoration has garnered increasing attention on the global stage through large-scale initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge. However, policies and strategies are often gender-blind and designed in compliance with entrenched social hierarchies, exacerbating pre-existing social inequalities that affect restoration initiatives. The challenge of developing gender-responsive policies and initiatives is accentuated by a persistent lack of sex-disaggregated data concerning men's and women's differing perceptions and experiences. This study aims to help fill this gap by capturing the differences in men and women's perceptions of ecosystem services before and after restoration interventions in Ethiopia. Towards that end, in October 2021, we collected data from fifty-nine (59) paired husband-wife households and six gender-segregated focus group discussions in two regions of Ethiopia: Amhara and Southern Nations, and Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP). Kendall's concordance analysis established a strong degree of disagreement between men's and women's ratings of restoration outcomes for most indicators. Men attributed degradation to landscape conditions and natural forces, while women considered the lack of appropriate restoration strategies as a precursor for accelerated degradation. The study also reveals that men tended to benefit more than women from enhanced ecosystem services post-restoration, with increased labour and land management burdens often falling on the shoulders of women. Based on these findings, we argue that including men's and women's perspectives from the earliest planning phases of restoration initiatives is essential to ensure greater equity in benefit-sharing, mitigate trade-offs for women, and build more nuanced, just and successful approaches to restoration.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceNGOsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-05-21
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMponela P, Aynekulu E, Ebrahim M, Abate T, Abera W, Zaremba H, Elias M, Tamene L. 2023. Gender gap in perspectives of the impacts of degradation and restoration on ecosystem services in Ethiopia. Land Degradation and Development 1–14.en
dcterms.extent1-14en
dcterms.issued2023-09
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectecosystem servicesen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectlandscape restorationen
dcterms.subjectdegradationen
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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