Analysis Report: Managing the Water-Power-Meals-Gender Nexus

Stephanie Buechler (Ag Sciences World and Penn State Extension), Lina Tami Barrera (AESE PhD candidate), and Zoelie Rivera Ocasio (ESM PhD candidate), along with students and college students from the Nationwide College of Colombia and the Javeriana College additionally in Colombia developed a analysis report with program and coverage suggestions from the findings of their interdisciplinary, utilized venture entitled: ‘Managing the Water-Power-Meals-Gender Nexus: Between Subsistence and Sustainability on Isla Fuerte, Colombia.’

The analysis report highlights findings from an interdisciplinary venture funded by the Colombia-USA WEF Nexus Alliance of Penn State and a part of internationalizing extension efforts that Penn State is a part of by means of a U.S. college community: Globalizing Extension Innovation Community (GEIN). The venture focuses on the island of Isla Fuerte, Colombia, and its primarily Afro-Caribbean inhabitants and is aimed toward understanding water, vitality, and meals nexus challenges in an island context impacted by world environmental change.

It contains an evaluation of the roles of ladies of their kitchen gardens and of their small plots. Program and coverage suggestions with particular emphasis on girls’s wants and sustainability initiatives are included within the report which is being disseminated to authorities officers in Colombia as enter into their forthcoming Cartagena Area Improvement Plan 2024-2027. This analysis report is a part of Ag Sciences World’s GEARE initiative.

Managing the Water-Power-Meals-Gender Nexus: Between Subsistence and Sustainability on Isla Fuerte, Colombia