Eecology and rural develoment
Suggestions for Transforming gender relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment: benefits, challenges and trade-offs for improving nutrition outcomes
Prof. Zhanhuan Shang,
School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Gansu province, 730000, China,
My suggestions for exploring more way to make more benefit to improve women's nutrition, is that 1) make the special part of financial benefit from carbon trade by country government, FAO, UNEP or others organization, that because women make more contribution for carbon sequestration and maintain carbon balance in the rural area, which need more business accounting of gender's contribution of carbon management in the world. 2) We should make special department or organization to carry the special carbon fund for women's carbon compensation from carbon trade-off in worldwide. 3) A Collaborative project worldwide should be planned to survey the gender's contribution for carbon management to make the women's benefit involve into carbon business.
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尚占环 教授/博士
单位：兰州大学生命科学学院
地址：甘肃省兰州市天水南路222号，兰州大学盘旋路校区逸夫生物楼708室，兰州，730000。
Prof. Dr. Zhanhuan Shang
Department: School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China.
Address: Room 708, Yifu Biology Buidling, No. 222, Tianshui South Road of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, 730000, China.
Prof. Zhanhuan Shang
In the poor regions of the world, the food supply from local land is a big challenge for eradicating extreme poverty. Sometimes, the technique employed are a big limitation for the agricultural production in those regions. For example, some local residents did not know how to produce agricultural food with low-cost technique on their land. At that time, the demonstration of the best techniques was very important to encourage local residents to carry out their agricultural activity as efficiently as possible. Such demonstration need to be carried out over a long period to allow them to deliver confidence and promote local residents to carry out the agricultural activity by themselves initiatively.
For this point, the arid-agricultural team of Lanzhou University (China) carried out field demonstration in Kenya and other African over many years to make sure that plastic film mulch-cropping technique is employed as a low cost, high yielding technique in dry areas.
After that, more and more local residents joined in employing this agricultural model to produce more food from local farmland, leading to an increasing food supply and more people working productively in agriculture (reducing habitual loafers for social stability).
I appeal to international organization to encourage more activities like those that the demonstration carried out in Africa, to encourage local resident to do the farmland work for effective, cost efficient production.
Some more information is from:
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/english/society/2015-12/02/content_709109.htm
http://en.lzu.edu.cn/content/477.html
http://en.lzu.edu.cn/content/492.html