Socioeconomic survey with gender perspective for AWD in Colombia

Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) is a water saving technique thus helping farmers adapt to less water availability, it reduces the methane gas emission in rice production, and it increases/maintains productivity levels. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and partners, are doing several studies to evaluate the feasibility of implementing this technology in Colombia. This necessitates an understanding of economic, climatic, political, agronomic and social considerations. Literature shows how gender roles can influence the adoption of a technology or be affected by the introduction of a new technology. Therefore, a baseline in five departments of Colombia – Tolima, Norte de Santander, Cesar, Córdoba and Casanare, was implemented to identify: a) barriers and motivations of farmers to implement AWD and b) gender roles in decision making over rice production and labor. This last to understand: how might gender impact the adoption of AWD in Colombia? And, how will the adoption of AWD affect the gender division of labor? In order to answer these questions, a household survey with sex-disaggregated information was implemented to 609 households with at least one irrigated rice. The implementation of the survey was supported by Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), the National Association of Rice in Colombia (FEDEARROZ, by its acronym in Spanish) and the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

干湿交替灌溉法（Alternate Wetting and Drying, AWD）是一项节水技术，可帮助农户应对水资源短缺问题，同时减少水稻生产中的甲烷排放，并维持或提升产量水平。国际热带农业中心（International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT）及其合作机构正在开展多项研究，以评估该技术在哥伦比亚的推广可行性。为此，需充分考量经济、气候、政策、农艺与社会等多维度因素。现有文献表明，性别角色既会影响技术的采纳情况，也可能因新技术的引入而发生改变。因此，研究团队在哥伦比亚的托利马省、北桑坦德省、塞萨尔省、科尔多瓦省和卡萨纳雷省五个省份开展基线调研，旨在明确两大核心目标：a）农户采纳AWD技术的阻碍因素与动机；b）水稻生产与劳动决策中的性别角色。后者旨在解答两个关键问题：其一，在哥伦比亚，性别因素会如何影响AWD技术的采纳？其二，AWD技术的推广又将如何改变劳动分工中的性别格局？为解答上述问题，研究团队针对609户至少拥有一片灌溉稻田的农户开展了分性别信息收集的家庭入户调查。本次调研得到了气候与清洁空气联盟（Climate and Clean Air Coalition, CCAC）、哥伦比亚全国水稻协会（西班牙语缩写为FEDEARROZ）以及气候变化、农业与粮食安全研究计划（Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, CCAFS）的支持。