Gundula Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 168584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gundula Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gundula |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7658-786X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Do youth conceptualizations influence the inclusion of young people in sustainable agriculture intensification? Insights from Ghana and Malawi
We examine local conceptualizations and definitions of the youth and how they influence youth inclusion in sustainable agriculture intensification (SAI) in Ghana and Malawi amidst challenges of high youth unemployment and underemployment, food insecurity, and rural out-migration. We use data from focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Definitions of youth(hood) varied among communities and agricultural officials based on age mediat…
Developing gender-transformative innovation packages for sustainable intensification: The case of maize leaf stripping in northern Ghana
Sustainable agricultural intensification (SI) seeks to address multiple development objectives at the same time, among them social aspects of sustainability.However, interest in gender norms as potential catalyzers or obstacles for achieving these objectives has remained low.In this article, we use a SI assessment framework as an analytical lens for the identification of social aspectsin particular inequitable norms-that could be targeted through…
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting Gals tools in Tanzania
Gender transformative change in agrifood systems involves understanding gender dynamics and norms and intentionally strengthening or shifting structures, practices, and relations towards equality. An important research issue is how to spark critical reflection and action that foster transformative change among participants and programme staff alike. Household Methodologies (including the Gender Action Learning System methodology) are a potential …
Participation in and Gains from Traditional Vegetable Value Chains: A Gendered Analysis of Perceptions of Labour, Income and Expenditure in Producers’ and Traders’ Households
Horticulture is one of the fastest growing subsectors of agriculture in Tanzania. Gender relations in vegetable-producing and vegetable-trading households need to be understood to make value chain development equitable. This study, carried out in northern and central Tanzania, is based on data from surveys, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. The perceptions of men and women traders and producers are investigated with regard t…
Land use decisions: By whom and to whose benefit? A serious game to uncover dynamics in farm land allocation at household level in Northern Ghana
Gender and mechanization: Exploring the sustainability of mechanized forage chopping in Tanzania
Mechanization is currently experiencing a revival in agricultural research and development, with a new emphasis on equity and sustainability. This study evaluates the introduction of forage chopper machines in seven villages in northern Tanzania from a farmer's perspective. Data collected through focus group discussions and a survey are used for a gender analysis of this technology within a broader sustainable intensification indicator framework.…
Contested 'respectability: Gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry
Although ‘disrespectability’ has been discerned as an important discourse that accompanies Tanzanian women’s engagement in hospitality jobs, it remains unclear how they counter this devaluation and whether their male co-workers are affected as well. Using a life-story methodology with a sample of 20 male and female employees, this study shows how men and women are unevenly hit by the assignment of ‘shame’ and how they resist. Better pay and more …
Talking to Chief Mkwawa: Multivocality and negotiation in an ancestral offering in Tanzania's Southern Highlands
An ancestral offering carried out by the chiefs of two neighbouring groups in Tanzania's Southern Highlands was documented through participant observation, photo-elicitation interviews and photography. The ritual took place in front of a museum, which contains the late Chief Mkwawa's skull - a German war trophy in colonial times. Apart from preserving knowledge about the history of the region, the offering was marked by two other features, namely…
Transformation or end of Tanzanian trade unions? A comment on Matteo Rizzo's dissenting remarks
Note on contributorGundula Fischer is senior lecturer at the University of Iringa, Iringa, Tanzania with a specialisation in the anthropology and sociology of work and organisations. Her research has concentrated upon kinship, patronage and paternalism in the workplace, recruitment methods and labour market segmentation, and the transformation of the Tanzanian labour movement. Currently she is involved in a project on gender and employment in the…
Choices and changes of recruitment methods in a Tanzanian city
Labour market processes in Tanzania constitute an important but an under-researched topic. This study investigates the recruitment methods of private companies in Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest city. It asks whether employers make use of informal methods more often than formal methods, whether the skills required for a job relate to the choice of methods and whether the vacancy period of a position is linked to a specific approach. A survey co…
T anzanian Women's Move into Wage Labour: Conceptualizing Deference, Sexuality and Respectability as Criteria for Workplace Suitability
Although female labour force participation in T anzania is growing, little is known about how hiring authorities fill job positions with respect to gender. Qualitative interviews with hospitality and manufacturing managers in M wanza ( T anzania's second largest city) reveal that female deference, sexuality, domesticity and respectability constitute important recruitment and job placement criteria. This article examines the various notions behind…
Recruitment and female labour in Tanzanian hospitality companies: An exploration
In spite of Tanzania's increasing female labour force participation (2000/2001 until 2006) and its government's efforts to promote gender balance, daily work and employment practices are still characterised by profound gender inequalities. This paper explores the hospitality industry and its gendered employment patterns, based on the case of Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest town. Data collected using questionnaires and qualitative interviews ind…
Revisiting Abandoned Ground: Tanzanian Trade Unions’ Engagement with Informal Workers
Since the 1990s African trade unions have discussed and in part embarked on mobilization in the informal economy. Reports, however, rarely relate present unionists’ attitudes towards informal workers, on the one hand, to the history of their labor movement on the other. In this study ethnographic interviews with high-ranking Tanzanian labor leaders and their development partners are evaluated against aims and obstacles unions in other African cou…
Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios
Climate change and world food security: A new assessment
Climate change and world food supply, demand and trade
Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios
Climate change and world food security: A new assessment
Climate change and world food supply, demand and trade
T anzanian Women's Move into Wage Labour: Conceptualizing Deference, Sexuality and Respectability as Criteria for Workplace Suitability
Although female labour force participation in T anzania is growing, little is known about how hiring authorities fill job positions with respect to gender. Qualitative interviews with hospitality and manufacturing managers in M wanza ( T anzania's second largest city) reveal that female deference, sexuality, domesticity and respectability constitute important recruitment and job placement criteria. This article examines the various notions behind…
Gender and mechanization: Exploring the sustainability of mechanized forage chopping in Tanzania
Mechanization is currently experiencing a revival in agricultural research and development, with a new emphasis on equity and sustainability. This study evaluates the introduction of forage chopper machines in seven villages in northern Tanzania from a farmer's perspective. Data collected through focus group discussions and a survey are used for a gender analysis of this technology within a broader sustainable intensification indicator framework.…
Talking to Chief Mkwawa: Multivocality and negotiation in an ancestral offering in Tanzania's Southern Highlands
An ancestral offering carried out by the chiefs of two neighbouring groups in Tanzania's Southern Highlands was documented through participant observation, photo-elicitation interviews and photography. The ritual took place in front of a museum, which contains the late Chief Mkwawa's skull - a German war trophy in colonial times. Apart from preserving knowledge about the history of the region, the offering was marked by two other features, namely…
Land use decisions: By whom and to whose benefit? A serious game to uncover dynamics in farm land allocation at household level in Northern Ghana
Recruitment and female labour in Tanzanian hospitality companies: An exploration
In spite of Tanzania's increasing female labour force participation (2000/2001 until 2006) and its government's efforts to promote gender balance, daily work and employment practices are still characterised by profound gender inequalities. This paper explores the hospitality industry and its gendered employment patterns, based on the case of Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest town. Data collected using questionnaires and qualitative interviews ind…
Revisiting Abandoned Ground: Tanzanian Trade Unions’ Engagement with Informal Workers
Since the 1990s African trade unions have discussed and in part embarked on mobilization in the informal economy. Reports, however, rarely relate present unionists’ attitudes towards informal workers, on the one hand, to the history of their labor movement on the other. In this study ethnographic interviews with high-ranking Tanzanian labor leaders and their development partners are evaluated against aims and obstacles unions in other African cou…
Contested 'respectability: Gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry
Although ‘disrespectability’ has been discerned as an important discourse that accompanies Tanzanian women’s engagement in hospitality jobs, it remains unclear how they counter this devaluation and whether their male co-workers are affected as well. Using a life-story methodology with a sample of 20 male and female employees, this study shows how men and women are unevenly hit by the assignment of ‘shame’ and how they resist. Better pay and more …
Climate change and world food supply, demand and trade
Climate change and world food security: A new assessment
Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios
T anzanian Women's Move into Wage Labour: Conceptualizing Deference, Sexuality and Respectability as Criteria for Workplace Suitability
Although female labour force participation in T anzania is growing, little is known about how hiring authorities fill job positions with respect to gender. Qualitative interviews with hospitality and manufacturing managers in M wanza ( T anzania's second largest city) reveal that female deference, sexuality, domesticity and respectability constitute important recruitment and job placement criteria. This article examines the various notions behind…
Recruitment and female labour in Tanzanian hospitality companies: An exploration
In spite of Tanzania's increasing female labour force participation (2000/2001 until 2006) and its government's efforts to promote gender balance, daily work and employment practices are still characterised by profound gender inequalities. This paper explores the hospitality industry and its gendered employment patterns, based on the case of Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest town. Data collected using questionnaires and qualitative interviews ind…
Revisiting Abandoned Ground: Tanzanian Trade Unions’ Engagement with Informal Workers
Since the 1990s African trade unions have discussed and in part embarked on mobilization in the informal economy. Reports, however, rarely relate present unionists’ attitudes towards informal workers, on the one hand, to the history of their labor movement on the other. In this study ethnographic interviews with high-ranking Tanzanian labor leaders and their development partners are evaluated against aims and obstacles unions in other African cou…
Transformation or end of Tanzanian trade unions? A comment on Matteo Rizzo's dissenting remarks
Note on contributorGundula Fischer is senior lecturer at the University of Iringa, Iringa, Tanzania with a specialisation in the anthropology and sociology of work and organisations. Her research has concentrated upon kinship, patronage and paternalism in the workplace, recruitment methods and labour market segmentation, and the transformation of the Tanzanian labour movement. Currently she is involved in a project on gender and employment in the…
Choices and changes of recruitment methods in a Tanzanian city
Labour market processes in Tanzania constitute an important but an under-researched topic. This study investigates the recruitment methods of private companies in Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest city. It asks whether employers make use of informal methods more often than formal methods, whether the skills required for a job relate to the choice of methods and whether the vacancy period of a position is linked to a specific approach. A survey co…
Talking to Chief Mkwawa: Multivocality and negotiation in an ancestral offering in Tanzania's Southern Highlands
An ancestral offering carried out by the chiefs of two neighbouring groups in Tanzania's Southern Highlands was documented through participant observation, photo-elicitation interviews and photography. The ritual took place in front of a museum, which contains the late Chief Mkwawa's skull - a German war trophy in colonial times. Apart from preserving knowledge about the history of the region, the offering was marked by two other features, namely…
Gender and mechanization: Exploring the sustainability of mechanized forage chopping in Tanzania
Mechanization is currently experiencing a revival in agricultural research and development, with a new emphasis on equity and sustainability. This study evaluates the introduction of forage chopper machines in seven villages in northern Tanzania from a farmer's perspective. Data collected through focus group discussions and a survey are used for a gender analysis of this technology within a broader sustainable intensification indicator framework.…
Contested 'respectability: Gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry
Although ‘disrespectability’ has been discerned as an important discourse that accompanies Tanzanian women’s engagement in hospitality jobs, it remains unclear how they counter this devaluation and whether their male co-workers are affected as well. Using a life-story methodology with a sample of 20 male and female employees, this study shows how men and women are unevenly hit by the assignment of ‘shame’ and how they resist. Better pay and more …
Participation in and Gains from Traditional Vegetable Value Chains: A Gendered Analysis of Perceptions of Labour, Income and Expenditure in Producers’ and Traders’ Households
Horticulture is one of the fastest growing subsectors of agriculture in Tanzania. Gender relations in vegetable-producing and vegetable-trading households need to be understood to make value chain development equitable. This study, carried out in northern and central Tanzania, is based on data from surveys, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. The perceptions of men and women traders and producers are investigated with regard t…
Land use decisions: By whom and to whose benefit? A serious game to uncover dynamics in farm land allocation at household level in Northern Ghana
Do youth conceptualizations influence the inclusion of young people in sustainable agriculture intensification? Insights from Ghana and Malawi
We examine local conceptualizations and definitions of the youth and how they influence youth inclusion in sustainable agriculture intensification (SAI) in Ghana and Malawi amidst challenges of high youth unemployment and underemployment, food insecurity, and rural out-migration. We use data from focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Definitions of youth(hood) varied among communities and agricultural officials based on age mediat…
Developing gender-transformative innovation packages for sustainable intensification: The case of maize leaf stripping in northern Ghana
Sustainable agricultural intensification (SI) seeks to address multiple development objectives at the same time, among them social aspects of sustainability.However, interest in gender norms as potential catalyzers or obstacles for achieving these objectives has remained low.In this article, we use a SI assessment framework as an analytical lens for the identification of social aspectsin particular inequitable norms-that could be targeted through…
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting Gals tools in Tanzania
Gender transformative change in agrifood systems involves understanding gender dynamics and norms and intentionally strengthening or shifting structures, practices, and relations towards equality. An important research issue is how to spark critical reflection and action that foster transformative change among participants and programme staff alike. Household Methodologies (including the Gender Action Learning System methodology) are a potential …
Political science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Tanzania (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Socioeconomics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)