White Scallion Production :New Opportunity for Muslim Women in

Lanao

AMDFPhilippines

Household Economy : Sources of HH Welfare

Batangan-Basingan

Bubong, LDS(517 HH)

FARM WORK:FoodFarm equipments and materialsSchool tuitionHome furniture/facilities and equipmentFarm inputWeapon*Jewelry*Payment of debts

CARE WORK:Free cost on caregiver and home manager

OBLIGATORY SOCIAL NETWORKIBG:Social security;Social investment convertible to cash

NEW OPPORTUNITY:Additional cashFood Solidarity among womenEducationHealthAssets of women

COMMUNITY WORK :Social satisfaction and belongingness of HH members;Spiritual contentment

NATURAL RESOURCES:Food MedicineHealth maintenanceMaintenance of Home management

PRODUCTIVE WORK:Clothes, educational needs, health needs,

State :CCT

Education Health

Veteran’s PensionExtension Services

NON-GOVT:FoodSkillsKnowledgeEducationhealth

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Household Economy : Division of Labor

Nature of Work Women Men

Care Work Child care, elderly care , cooking, house cleaning, laundry Fetching of water

Farm Work Assistance for Rice Farmers:Food delivery, seed preparation, seedling establishment, planting assistance, care and maintenance assistance- weeding, harvesting, trellising, drying, packaging, assist in marketingVEGETABLE PRODUCTION (Gardening)lead by women(large production)lead by men, except for land prep, women assist in all other activitiesANIMAL CAREFeeding

Rice Farm / VEG. Prod.:Land Prep; Planting; Care and Maintenance; harvesting; post-harvest; marketing

Productive Work Sari-sari store, Avon dealing and the like, dress-making, made-to-order products

None; farm work only

Community Work Assist during community disaster (natural and human conflict); mosque and madrasah maintenance; Ramadhan celebration

Attending community consultations, Mosque meetings, Listening to Wasyat (mosque sermons); assisting community disasters

Obligatory Social Network

Assistance during community social affairs (wedding, wake, etc.); visitation of the sick and newborn; Hajj celebration and festivity

Attend selected occasions only

Recreation Watching TV, listening to radio and gossiping Watching TV, listening to radio, chess playing and gossiping

Sleep and Rest Sleep when the day /work is over Sleep now and then...

Women of Lanao del Sur, Mindanao, PHLAreas to negotiate

Areas to Negotiate

ASSETS AND RESOURCES

CARE WORK

BELIEFS and PRACTICES

FARM WORK

New market opportunity

Change in the household

division of labor: women’s

workload lessen and increase

workload for men

Practice of social obligation (tabang) to

be harnessed for capital build-up for women’s

livelihood

Documentation of what

women own

Agreement of the community on

conditions that allow women to travel alone

More care and maintenance of the farm to be given to

men

Advocacy on expanding women’s role from

merely reproductive to include productive role,

the benefit of this expansion to the family,

the history and principles of Islam that

support this

Factors to Motivate New Opportunity

Income

New Skills and Knowledge

(Business management, production skills and

technology, marketing skills and knowledge)

Beliefs and Cultural Norms

(mobility of women- confined to the house, provision is left to

men, women takes care of family)

Negotiation• Mobility • Time

• Carework• Decision-making (education, health,

tabang)

Interpretation of Islamic Teachings

(women have freedom to work and earn outside the HH)

Social Support System

(Kapamagawida)

Household Economy : Time (with New Opportunity)

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Commodity White

Scallion

• What?– Allum family– They may be cooked or used as raw ingredient in

Asian recipes.– Essential part of Meranao recipes

• Benefits– low in calories and high in energy. – has disease-fighting chemicals – eating half a scallion a day increases the "good kind"

of cholesterol– increases circulation, prevents blood clots and lowers

blood pressure. – offer an excellent source of vitamin A and vitamin C,

plus potassium, magnesium, calcium and fiber• Why?

– Wide demand in the local market– Few local producers– Woman-friendly ( not laborious, easy to manage and

maintain, easy to harvest, familiarity with commodity)– Resilient plant (resists flooding, weather changes)

Gendered Market Map

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It is important to women to look after themselves economically. They cannot depend on men alone. When my husband got

sick, I needed to be very resourceful or our children might have died from hunger. I cannot afford to experience that again. Now my husband salutes me for surviving that trial. Islam does

not promote idleness of women.

The difference between men and women having income is that

men only cares of profiting from their livelihood while women always think carefully of how their profit contribute to the

well-being of the entire household.

Being economically independent allows

freedom of oppression from your own family. After the death of my husband, I took over

managing our farm. Now my siblings cannot belittle

me becoz I managed to send my children to

school without asking for their aid. My dignity and

self-respect is intact.

Sanggibo SalamatThank you

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New Opportunity (46 HH)

Cluster Land Area# of

plantlet/Seedlings(plants)

Projected harvest(Plants)

Projected Income

Initial Harvest(pesos)

Succeeding harvests

1 (10HH) 391 sq. m 12,377 86,639 25,991 18,714

2 (9HH) 500 sq. m 15,222 106,554 31,966 23,015

3 (10HH) 600 sq. m 15,366 107,562 32,268 23,233

4 (11HH) 600 sq. m 17,656 123,592 37,077 26,695

5 (2 HH) 168 sq. m 4,462 31,234 9,370 6,746

6 (8HH) 1,050 sq. m 22,424 156,968 47,090 33,904

7 (8HH) 400 sq. m 9,777 68,439 20,531 14,782

Note: selling of plant, by bundle of 40 at 12 pesos (current price)

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