September, 2022, Issue
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3 En-gendered Environmental Conflict Transformation
Engendered Environmental Conflict Transformation is a an outcome of intersectional interest between ecology, gender, ethnicities and how these subjectivities contribute to conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Environmental peacebuilding embedded in engendered narratives can be explored in inter-disciplinary framework. This issue of Engenderd Environmental Conflict Transformation explores urban political ecology and how processes of rurbanization recreates how we understand ecology, climate change and ensuing conflicts for all genders. The exploration of adaptation finance, progress regarding SDGs as well as agriculture in climate change is elaborated. I am grateful to all the photographers who have given open access to their visual creations.
Vani Bhardwaj
Creator of ‘En-gendered Environmental Conflict Transformation’ Magazine
Preface
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Table of Contents Article 1………. Shortfall in achieving SDGs Article 2……….Decolonizing Climate Adaptation and Its Finance Article 3………. Violence Against Women And Girls in Agriculture Book Review………. Poetry……….Volcano of Peace
Shortfall in achieving SDGs As per the Gender Snapshot 2021, more than half of 95 countries fall short of a national quota for their national parliaments. Rape laws are lacking in 63% of these 95 nations in 2020. 234 million lesser women as juxtaposed to men can access the internet on mobile phones. Under SDG 5, gender equality, trend assessments regarding 15 indicators are missing. There has been an accelerated rise in the number of women Not in Employment, Education or Training. As education in emergencies becomes impediments for young girls, over 200 million girls and
women have undergone female genital mutilation. Projections for 2030 add 2 million more cases to potential FGM cases. It remains to be seen whether the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred such incidences. In the Sustainable Development Report 2022 by Cambridge University Press, progress on SDGs has stalled for the second continuing year. The Global Stocktake in 2023 by UNFCCC will be adversely impacted by slowing or stalled progress on intersecting SDGs. It has been noted that SDG 1 and SDG 8 have not reached their pre-pandemic levels. This shall only exacerbate and poverty, unemployment and underemployment in overlapping
of
Such
thus
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regions thus advancing outbreaks of ecological distribution conflicts.
potencies have higher probabilities in Low-Income Countries and Lower Middle-Income Countries. United States has never submitted a Voluntary National Review
highlighting the environmental racism in majority-white countries, in spite of the diasporic communities
color
large proportions living in the country. The Cambridge Report on SDGs takes note of the filling of gendered data gaps with help of citizen science, dynamic dashboards and data visualizations facilitated with earth observation data. The goal should be to enrich technology and remote sensing skills in female climate scientists of colour.
Sustainable development goals are underfinanced and required sustainable debt financing structures within the international development debt and aid sector. The complexed disbalances in this regards are discussed in the next article.
Decolonization of Adaptation and Its Finance
Adaptation Action Plans require knowledge and strategic enrichment from the climate resilient knowledge posited in indigenous women. They also must consider decentralized objectives of the village and district level priorities to be included in federal unit/state adaptation action plans. Subsequently, the national adaptation plans can therefore be morphed on principles of subsidiarity. Quota within NAPs for adaptation projects that cater to women and queer communities. Financing strategies that are conducive for women farmers, indigenous populations and their selfhelp groups msut be coherently weaved
into adaptation plans. The international financial institutions and their financing of projects at the grassroots should be modeled in collaboration with local activists who are either members of the community or at the very least, are familiar with the indigenous languages of the targeted demography.
Circular economy-inducing business models can be institutionalized/formalized in the Global South by creating hyphenation with global developmental aid that is structured towards adaptationfocused projects and development financing that incentivizes similar circularization in urbanization.
Adaptation projects serving communities, particularly, those of color in the Global North must be customized in adaptation portfolios across suburban areas. The periphery in the core countries has greater solidarities with the Global South than the meta Global North paradigm.
Creating associations with the SDG dashboard when it comes to financing of projects in developing countries requires support from global civil society as well. A case in point is that dalit international solidarity in civil society will create practical grounds for the implementation of adaptation projects with the help and leadership of dalit capitalists across South Asian countries.
Therefore, we see that decolonization of adaptation finance also requires uprooting the vestiges of colonization of the postcolonial state within its own populace. What can further enhance decolonial adaptation finance is the strengthening of economic meshworks of the diaspora of color across the globe in the adaptation debt financing sector and project implementations.
Violence Against Women and Girls in Agriculture
Agriculture typically forms part of the informal economy with the majority of disguised employment undertaken by Dalit women, indigenous women and young girls from similar contexts in what is the largest form of modern slavery in the twenty-first century.
Palm oil cultivation and cocoa cultivation forming part of global value chains are based in the exploitative labour of young girls who have dropped out of school. Smuggling of cocoa and palm oil is rampant in areas of armed internal conflicts which augurs poorly for the already existing meagre economic secuirty of women.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of women in the sweltering heat in climate change increases chances of spinal problems for women spending long hours, greater risk for dengue and malaria as well as complete loss of agricultural land let alone produce by women agriculturalists upon the incidence of climate related disasters. The abysmal income as a woman agriculturalist in a household where the
the male head of the household has migrated makes the woman vulnerable to rings of human trafficking that misuse her socioeconomic insecurity.
Hence we see how narratives of sustainable production and consumption require climate adaptation and mitigatory projects to aim at women agriculturalists who are prosumers of the food they produce and sell and also the survivors of the inherent genderbased violence implicit within the changes in climate and impacts on agriculture.
Mechanisms for Climate
in Peri-Urban Areas
Coping
Change
S. Manasi, K.V. Raju (eds.), Springer Publications, 2020 Peri-urban zones are transitional areas and bring about a socio-systemic transformation in processes of urbanization. The major focus of the book revolves around empirical studies in peri-urban areas of India. Holistic health and differentiated health systems within the urbanization processes intersect groundwater policies and interaction with urban ecology.
The lens of urban political ecology falls short in analyzing material and non-material flows of periurbanization. UPE needs to apply a gendered decolonial lens to comprehend the flux of processes operating in the peri-urban areas.
The socio-ecological systems in transition zones unravel the existence of non-binary as the binaries of rural and urban in rigid compartments cease to exist with rapid urbanization. In this light, this book serves the purpose of theorizing the patterns and trends of urbanization in peri-urban areas across multiple SDGs.
Volcano of Peace
In landscapes of conflict sits the innocence of youth and wonder, legacies of ancestries will get lost; when conflict rages all asunder.
Ruined on the piles of bodies was the hope of calm, The aggressors reduced swathes of land into tears on a child's palm. Transforming dead bodies into the driving force of vengeance for reclaiming hope, Enraging into the fire with peace; gliding on water - resolve in twisted knots in a rope.
About the author
Vani Bhardwaj has completed her M.A. in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She has been awarded Randhir Singh Prize for Political Analysis in her under-graduation. Currently she is pursuing M.A. in Gender and Development from IGNOU.
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