Assessing the empowerment level of Women Urban Container Gardening (UCG) adapting households in Mati City, Davao Oriental : a case study analysis /
Geolagon, Melanie C.,
Assessing the empowerment level of Women Urban Container Gardening (UCG) adapting households in Mati City, Davao Oriental : a case study analysis / Melanie C. Geolagon; Thaddeus R. Acuna, adviser - 2018 - 70 leaves
With the increasing rate of poverty in urban areas, urban technology, such as UCG, was created to aid the urban poor in sustaining their basic food requirement. Empowering women in agriculture, especially those in urban areas, will assist them in becoming sustainable and self-sufficient. The study and investigation assesses the role of UCG as an avenue of empowerment and measures its capacity to empower women in the five domains of empowerment. The significant variables affecting empowerment are also identified to discuss their implications in empowering women. Women empowerment in agriculture Index?s (WEAI) five domains of empowerment (5DE) were employed to get the empowerment score of women to be used as a dependent variable in tobit regression analysis that will identify the variables that are significant in the process of empowerment. The standard of WEAI?s 5DE to be classified as empowered is 80. In getting the empowerment score of each individual, only 7 out of 37 are considered empowered. The 7 empowered women exhibited active participation to 5DE which are production, resources, income, leadership, and time and its respective subdomains. In terms of significant variables affecting women empowerment, it was identified that education, marital status, financial struggle, and length of farming experience negatively affected empowerment, while the rate of comfort in the community, time for reproductive tasks, time for leisure, years in UCG adoption, and total land area, had positive effects in empowering women. In conclusion, UCG has facilitated the empowerment of women but there are still areas that need to be improved and must be addressed. Since UCG has the capacity to empower women, intervention from the local government unit (LGU), urban agricultural projects, UCG adaptors, and researchers for further gender-specific research is recommended.
Undergraduate Thesis, --ABE 200b
Assessing the empowerment level of Women Urban Container Gardening (UCG) adapting households in Mati City, Davao Oriental : a case study analysis / Melanie C. Geolagon; Thaddeus R. Acuna, adviser - 2018 - 70 leaves
With the increasing rate of poverty in urban areas, urban technology, such as UCG, was created to aid the urban poor in sustaining their basic food requirement. Empowering women in agriculture, especially those in urban areas, will assist them in becoming sustainable and self-sufficient. The study and investigation assesses the role of UCG as an avenue of empowerment and measures its capacity to empower women in the five domains of empowerment. The significant variables affecting empowerment are also identified to discuss their implications in empowering women. Women empowerment in agriculture Index?s (WEAI) five domains of empowerment (5DE) were employed to get the empowerment score of women to be used as a dependent variable in tobit regression analysis that will identify the variables that are significant in the process of empowerment. The standard of WEAI?s 5DE to be classified as empowered is 80. In getting the empowerment score of each individual, only 7 out of 37 are considered empowered. The 7 empowered women exhibited active participation to 5DE which are production, resources, income, leadership, and time and its respective subdomains. In terms of significant variables affecting women empowerment, it was identified that education, marital status, financial struggle, and length of farming experience negatively affected empowerment, while the rate of comfort in the community, time for reproductive tasks, time for leisure, years in UCG adoption, and total land area, had positive effects in empowering women. In conclusion, UCG has facilitated the empowerment of women but there are still areas that need to be improved and must be addressed. Since UCG has the capacity to empower women, intervention from the local government unit (LGU), urban agricultural projects, UCG adaptors, and researchers for further gender-specific research is recommended.
Undergraduate Thesis, --ABE 200b