For the question of "In your view, what is the relation between sustainable soil use, management and conservation (including soil fertility and health) and gender equality?"
In Ethiopia sustainable soil use, management and conservation are a very important dialogue point because our livelihood is more related to the land (agriculture-crop production as food and as cash, -livestock production in pastoral or high landers, export is based on cash crop that generates the GDP highest share etc).
So; from gender perspective or mainstreaming gender issue is highly advocated to create responsive access or control to its betterment to present or future change of livelihood. My perspective is that all gender dimensions (female, male and youth) are responsible for diversified responsibility with the different workloads to conserve it; yet all are equally or with equality responsible since it will affect their life directly or indirectly with the tenure system or land-based institutional system.
The equality arises in responsiveness to conservation and management for its sustainability; yet at micro-level there will appear share of responsibility visa vis workload at household level.
Г-н Aklilu Nigussie