Daten zum Projekt
Initiative: | Wissen für morgen – Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im subsaharischen Afrika (beendet) |
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Ausschreibung: | Postdoctoral Fellowships on Livelihood Management, Reforms and Processes of Structural Change |
Bewilligung: | 15.02.2017 |
Laufzeit: | 3 Jahre |
Projektinformationen
How does the organization of women transform gender relations and living standards of Fulani women in pastoralist communities of northern Benin? This is the main question that the postdoctoral project aims to address. Northern Benin is facing various environmental, socio-economic and technological changes threatening the livelihoods of the entire Fulani pastoralist community, including women. To meet the challenges of marginalization specifically of women, improve their access to resources and gain socio-economic and political power, Fulani women with support from male Fulani leaders have set up, from the year 2000 onwards, some community-based associations known as GPFERs (Professional Groups of Female Herders of Ruminants). Fifteen years later, the GPFER movement has spread across the country, with about 120 GPFERs in 48 municipalities, covering 75% of the national territory. Through an ethnographic study, it will be analyzed how the "GPFER-ization" of Fulani communities has influenced gender relations of power at both household and community levels. The project thus deals with the social dimension of livelihood strategies from the perspectives of local actors, especially women. By exploring the ideas, actions and relations of Fulani women within the context of GPFERs, the project intends to contribute to and advance the analyses of gender relations, identity politics and development among African pastoralists.
Projektbeteiligte
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Prof. Dr. Eva Schlecht
Universität Göttingen
Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften
Department für Nutztierwissenschaften
Abteilung Tierhaltung in den Tropen und Subtropen
Göttingen
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Dr. Georges Djohy
University of Parakou
Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
National School of Statistics, Planning &
Demography
Parakou
Benin
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Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Schareika
Universität Göttingen
Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Ethnologie
Göttingen
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert
Universität Kassel
FB 11: Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften
Fachgebiet Ökologischer Pflanzenbau und Agraröko-
systemforschung in den Tropen und Subtropen
Witzenhausen