3 - Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to Climate Change
Corresponding Author(s) : Kammila Naidoo
Revue africaine de sociologie,
Vol. 22 No 1 (2018): Revue africaine de sociologie
Résumé
L’expérience du changement climatique est filtrée à travers les vulnérabilités culturelles, sociales et économiques existantes. Les ruraux pauvres des communautés dépendantes des ressources naturelles dans divers pays africains sont susceptibles d’être négativement affectés par le changement climatique. Dans de nombreuses cultures, les agricultrices sont nettement moins bien loties que leurs homologues masculins. Cette étude utilise une méthodologie d’histoire de vie afin d’examiner la nature particulière de la vulnérabilité des femmes rurales à Oku dans la région des hautes terres de Bamenda au Cameroun. Le genre est lié à la vulnérabilité à travers un certain nombre de facteurs. Ceux-ci comprennent l’accès et le contrôle de la terre, la division du travail, les relations matrimoniales, l’accès à l’éducation et la responsabilité des personnes à charge. Les histoires de vie des participants montrent comment la vulnérabilité dans la région se développe avec le temps et est à la fois complexe et non linéaire. Néanmoins, les participants ont expliqué comment ils ont utilisé leur agence, individuelle et collective, pour faire face à la vulnérabilité. Ils décrivent différentes stratégies d’adaptation utilisées, y compris la diversification des moyens de subsistance et l’évolution des pratiques agricoles. Comprendre le rôle du genre dans la détermination de la vulnérabilité des femmes est utile pour éclairer la conception et la mise en œuvre des politiques d ’adaptation. Cet article apporte une contribution empirique aux discussions sur la nécessité d’engendrer des recherches, des politiques et des actions sur le changement climatique.
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Babugura, A., Mtshali, N. and Mtshali, M., (2010). Gender and climate change: South Africa case study. Heinrich Böll Foundation Southern Africa.
Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I., and Wisner, B. (1994). At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability and Disaster. London: Routledge.
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Bohle, H.G., Downing, T.E., and Watts, M.J. (1994). Climate Change and Social Vulnerability: the sociology and geography of food insecurity. Global ental Change (4) 37-48.
Brody A., Demestriades J. & Esplen E., (2008). Gender and climate change: Mapping the linkages, a scoping study on knowledge and gaps. Bridge – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK.
Bunce, A. and Ford, J. (2015). How is adaptation, resilience and vulnerability research engaging with gender? Environmental Research Letters 10, 1-11.
Butler, J. and Gambetti, Z., (eds) (2013). Rethinking vulnerability and resistance: Feminism and Social Change. Women creating change. Workshop Report, Istanbule, Turkey.
Butler, J.R.A., Suadnya, W., Puspadi, K., Sutaryono, Y., Wise, R.W., Skewes, T.D., Kirono, D., Bohensky, E.L., Handayani, T., Habidi, P., Kisman M., Suharto Hanartani,I. , Supartarningsih, S., Ripaldk, A., Fachry, A., Yanuartati, Y., Duggan, K and Ash, A.,(2014). Framing the application of adaptation pathways for rural livelihoods and global change in eastern Indonesian islands. Global Environmental Change 28: 368-382.
Cornwall, A. (2016). Women’s empowerment: what works? Journal of International Development 28, 342-359.
Crona, B., Wutich, A., Brewis, A. and Gartin, M. (2013). Perceptions of Climate Change: Linking local and global perceptions through a cultural knowledge approach, Springer, Science + Business Dordrecht.
Cutter S.L., Boruff, B.J. and Shirley, W.L., (2003). Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards. Social Science Quarterly, 84 (2) 243 – 261.
Dankelman, I., (2002). Climate change: Learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development. Gender & Development, 10 (2), 21 -29
Devereux, S. (1993). Goats before ploughs: dilemmas of household response sequencing during household food shortages, International Development Studies Bulletin, 24, 52-59.
Djoudi, H. and Brockhaus, M. (2011). Is adaptation to climate change gender neutral Lessons from communities dependent on livestock and forests in northern Mali. International Forestry Review 13, 123-135.
Dow, K., and Downing, T.E., (1995). Vulnerability research: Where things stand.Human Dimension Quarterly, 1, 3-5.
Ekblom, A., (2012). Livelihood security, vulnerability and resilience: a historical analysis of Chibuene, Southern Mozambique. AMBIO 41: 479-489.
Elak Council Baseline Report (2012) Report of baseline data for Elak Council. Oku Sub division, Elak Council Elinder, M. and Erixson, O., (2012). Gender, social norms, and survival in maritime disasters.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United america 109(33): 13220-13224.
UNFCCC (2016). Guidelines or other tools for integrating gender considerations into climate change related activities under the Convention. Technical paper by the secretariat. FCCC/TC/2016/2. UCCC (United Councils and Cities of Cameroon), (2014). Elak Oku. CVUC/UCCC, www.cvuc.cm/national/index.php/en/component/content/article/149-association/carte-administrative/nord-ouest/bui/344-elak-oku.
United Nations, (2008). Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men: “Gender perspectives on climate change”.
Commission on the status of women. Interactive expert panel, 52nd Session, Issues paper. UN Women Watch (United Nations Women Watch), (2009). Women Gender Equality and Climate Change: Fact Sheet. The UN Internet Gateway on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women.
van Santen, J.C.M. (2014). ‘Do life histories surface as time goes by?: longitudinal anthropological research, time and feminist knowledge production. Women’s Studies International Forum 40, 22-29.
Wise, RM.; Fazey, I.; Stafford Smith, M.; Park, SE; Eakin; Archer, ERM; van Garderen, A., and Campbel, B. (2014). Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response, Global Environmental Change 28, 325-336.
Wong, S. (2016). Can climate finance contribute to gender equity in developing countries ?Journal of International Development 28, 428-444.
World Bank, (2010). The social dimensions of adaptation to climatic change inussion Paper 12. Washington, DC: World Bank.