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Replication Data for: Can gender appreciation of trees enhance landscape multifunctionality? A case of smallholder farming systems on Mount Elgon

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Title Replication Data for: Can gender appreciation of trees enhance landscape multifunctionality? A case of smallholder farming systems on Mount Elgon
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/SCKGMV
 
Creator Bourne, Mieke
Kimaiyo, Joan
Tanui, Joseph
Catacutan, Delia
Otiende, Verrah
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description Trees provide livelihood support functions and environmental services that contribute to the multifunctionality of landscapes. The presence or absence of trees is influenced by the interactions between ecological, social-economic and cultural elements. The role of gender in land use perceptions and changes involving trees have received little attention. In Africa, gender differentiated access, use and decision-making related to trees are common features. Divergent control and access to resources by men and women are likely to influence their perceptions and preferences for trees in the landscape. This paper discusses the results of an assessment of men's and women's appreciation of trees in Kapchorwa District, on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda. While men and women were found to have differences in their access to tree products, decision-making powers and agroforestry practices, their land use preferences and perceptions of environmental services were similar. The paper provides recommendations on community forest management, agroforestry programmes and conservation agreements.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
AGROFORESTRY
GENDER
LANDSCAPE
MOUNT ELGON
MULTIFUNCTIONAL
 
Language English
 
Contributor Baraka, Paul