Please join us on Thursday, October 9th from 12:00 pm -1:30 pm for our next Waterloo Food Issues Group (WatFIG) meeting, which will take place in Environment Building 2, room 2021 (EV2-2021) here at Waterloo. At this meeting, we have the opportunity to (re) introduce everyone and network. Please come ready to say a few words about your own research interests and current projects.
We also have a student guest-speaker. PhD student Beth Timmers in the faculty of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo will talk to us about her latest research.
Transformative gender research in small-scale fisheries, the case of Lake Wamala, Central Uganda
Gender research in agricultural development has reached a critical juncture. Despite decades of investment and ‘mainstreaming’, there is a lack of measurable progress toward gender equity. This talk offers an alternative method for gender research, applying value chain analysis as a case of transformative gender research. The research unpacks mechanisms that reproduce gender norms and resulting inequalities in the fishery of Lake Wamala in Central Uganda. Surrounding communities depend on this Lake as a key source of income and food. In partnership with Uganda’s National Fisheries Resources Research Institute, this study collected and analysed data on constraints to men’s and women’s opportunities based on gender.
This study uses data collected as part of the 2013 Research Award in Agriculture and Food Security from the International Development Research Centre.
Feel free to bring your own lunch. I hope you can join us.