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Modules on Gender, Population & Rural Development
with a Focus on Land Tenure & Farming Systems*
(November 1995)
The set of five modules on Gender, Population and
Rural Development was prepared under the guidance of Jacques du
Guerny, Chief, Population Programme Service (SDWP), Division of
Women and People's Participation in Development (SDW), Sustainable
Development Department, by Daphne Topouzis, consultant.
These modules have been prepared with UNFPA support
under the FAO component of the UNFPA Technical Support Services
(TSS).
For further information, please contact Jacques du
Guerny, SDWP, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome,
Italy.
Telephone: (396) 5225-3816
Facsimile: (396) 5225-5490
E-mail: jacques.duguerny@fao.org.
*The term module should be understood here as referring to
a subset of a group rather than in the commonly used IEC/training
sense.
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Purpose and Scope of the Modules on Gender, Population
and Rural Development
This set of five modules on Gender, Population and Rural
Development were prepared under the guidance of Jacques du Guerny,
Chief, Population Programme Service (SDWP), Division of Women and
People's Participation in Development (SDW), Sustainable
Development Department, by Daphne Topouzis, consultant.
The modules analyze in detail two institutional factors that
underpin gender, population and rural development issues: farming
systems and land tenure. In particular, the modules delineate how
gender issues in farming systems and land tenure interface with
fertility, mortality and migration. The significance of these
institutional factors lies in that they provide a link between
population variables and the bio-physical environment.
The purpose of this set of modules is to stimulate discussion
among gender, population, farming systems and land tenure
specialists on the need for a systems approach to gender, rural
development and population issues. The objective of this exercise
is to identify:
a) key linkages beween farming systems and land tenure on
the one hand and fertility, mortality and migration on
the other;
b) main policy issues; and
c) research needs in the policy areas identified above.
A brief synopsis of the five modules follows below:
Module I: The Population Parameters of Rural Development recalls
issues and problems in current approaches to the role of gender and
population in rural development. The significance of a systems
approach is highlighted and some key issues raised in Modules II-V
are introduced.
Module II analyzes the linkages between Gender, Fertility/Mortality
& Land Tenure and their implications for tenure systems, focusing
on land access, security and sustainability.
Module III explores the linkages between Gender,
Fertility/Mortality and Farming Systems, focusing on the impact of
these linkages on farming systems and on farm households. FAO
projects RAF/94/TO1 (Technical Support Services) and RAF/91/004
(both funded by UNDP) and TCP/UGA/2256 (Technical Cooperation
Programme, funded by FAO) on the impact of AIDS-related mortality
on farming systems and rural families in East Africa are used as
case studies.
Module IV focuses on the linkages between Gender, Rural-to-Urban
Migration and Farming Systems and Gender, Rural-to-Rural Migration
and Land Tenure, and their implications for farm households. The
Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (funded by a
consortium of donors) is used as a case study for gender, rural-to-
rural migration and land tenure.
Module V synthesizes the findings from the five modules, examines
the policy implications in detail and defines possible areas of
intervention as well as major areas of operational research needed
in gender, population and rural development. Thailand INT/90/P40:
Population Issues Relevant to Community Forestry Planning (funded
by UNFPA) is used as a case study.
(November 1995)