Collaborative effort to operationalize the gender transformative approach in the Barotse Floodplain

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Agricultural interventions that aim at alleviating rural poverty have important gender implications. The paper explores a Gender Transformative Approach recognizing that fishing, post- harvest processing, and trading are all gendered activities. On the Barotse Floodplain (Zambia) women are relegated to perform tasks within less profitable nodes of the fish value chain. The assessment of ecosystem services in a select number of Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) focal communities included women’s and men’s perspectives and diverse provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services.

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AQUACULTURE, VALUE CHAINS, FLOODPLAINS, GENDER ROLES, GENDER ANALYSIS, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, WOMEN’S WORK, ZAMBIA, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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