M.Sc. Boipelo Freude
http://www.agrarpol.uni-kiel.de/de/mitarbeiter/wiss-mitarbeiter/m-sc-boipelo-freude
Project
Gender Relations and Vulnerability amongst Rural Communities in South Africa; How do Men and Women Cope with Food Security Shortfalls?
The research project aims at providing an insight on the gendered roles and responsibilities, how these affect ownership and control of key livelihood assets, as well as their causal relationship with men's and women's ability to cope with food crisis- i.e. their vulnerability context. Gender is used as an analytical concept that captures the socially constructed roles and identities that are associated with being a man or a woman. Gender as defined above has a profound impact on the distribution of resources and responsibilities of man and women, thus affecting people’s livelihoods and hence their ability to cope with food security shortfalls. The study makes a comparative analysis of men and women’s vulnerability, which is useful in ensuring that food security programming addresses the needs of both groups, equally. The study makes use of the Coping Strategy Index (CSI) (Maxwell, 1996; Maxwell et.al.,1999), to quantify the varying degrees of vulnerability among men and women.
Education
| Oct 2003 | MSc (Agricultural Sciences, Food Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics), University of Hohenheim |
| Nov 1995 | BSc (Agricultural Sciences), University of Botswana |
Work Experience
| 09/2011 – 09/2016 | Assistant Programme Manager: PPP programme on Agriculture Development and Food security and the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) at the Independent Development Trust (IDT): Pretoria, South Africa. |
| 02/2009 - 12/2010 | Agriculture Sector Researcher; IDASA; Managing Project; Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture, implemented in partnership with Civil Society groups in 9 African countries. |
| 04/2006 – 10/2008 | Associate Scientific Resource Person- Research; Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Accra, Ghana. Coordinating the FARA-CIDA Gender Equality and African Regional Institution (GEARI) Project. |
| 01/2005 - 03/2006 | Agricultural Research Officer: Department of Agricultural Research/ National Plant Genetic Resource Centre (NPGRC), Gaborone, Botswana; Overall Coordination of research in socio-economic aspects of conservation and utilisation of plant genetic resources in Botswana. |
| 04/2002 - 12/2003 | Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany: attached to the Uplands Program; Research for Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia. |
Research Interests
Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment; Gender Analysis