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- Not raised ‘to make big decisions’: young people’s agency and livelihoods in rural Pakistan(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022) Petesch, P.; Badstue, L.B.; Rahut, D.B.; Ali, A.
Publication - Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia(MDPI, 2020) Badstue, L.B.; Petesch, P.; Farnworth, C.; Roeven, L.; Hailemariam, M.
Publication - Making room for manoeuvre: addressing gender norms to strengthen the enabling environment for agricultural innovation(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Badstue, L.B.; Elias, M.; Kommerell, V.; Petesch, P.; Prain, G.; Pyburn, R.; Umantseva, A.
Publication - A community typology of social change devised from the bottom-up(GENNOVATE, 2019) Petesch, P.; Feldman, S.; Elias, M.; Badstue, L.B.; Najjar, D.; Rietveld, A.M.; Bullock, R.; Kawarazuka, N.; Luis, J.
Publication - Gender norms and poverty dynamics in 32 villages of South Asia(Springer, 2020) Petesch, P.; Badstue, L.B.
Publication - Key research findings entry points for enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation(CIMMYT, 2017) Petesch, P.; Badstue, L.B.; Prain, G.; Elias, M.; Amare TegbaruMen and women on average report growing power and freedom to shape their lives as well as declining poverty in their villages across the 137 GENNOVATE village-level case studies. Wider forces in the macro environments as well as improvements in rural livelihoods due to agricultural innovation contribute importantly to these promising trends. Yet, beneath these broad patterns, the GENNOVATE data show strong differences in how men and women – and their communities – experience and benefit from innovation processes. The research communities experiencing more inclusive innovation processes and rapid poverty reduction offer valuable lessons on which agricultural research and development (R&D) can build.
Publication - Fortifying the foundations for gender in AR4D(CIMMYT, 2018) Badstue, L.B.; Elias, M.; Kommerell, V.; Petesch, P.; Prain, G.; Pyburn, R.; Umantseva, A.
Publication - Using vignettes to explore gender dimensions of household food security and nutrition. GENNOVATE resources for scientists and research teams(CIMMYT, 2018) Elias, M.; Raneri, J.E.; Petesch, P.; Kennedy, G.; Badstue, L.B.Eliminating malnutrition is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Poor quality diet is a principal cause of malnutrition and a top risk factor of morbidity and mortality globally (Wang et al., 2017). Nutrition programs and projects abound typically target children, mothers, and other women of childbearing age, who are particularly vulnerable to nutrient deficiencies and often discriminated against when it comes to intra-household decisions shaping access to and allocation of nutritious foods. The close association between women, particularly young and middle-aged, and food processing and preparation has further encouraged nutrition-sensitive initiatives to target this demographic group (Alderman, 2017; FAO, 2017). Yet, the influence of other family members – especially fathers, grandmothers (mother-in-law), and other extended family relations in the household – over maternal and child health and nutrition is increasingly being acknowledged (Satzinger et al., 2009; FAO, 2017). Assuming that young and middle-aged women alone are responsible for this domain of activity thus under-recognizes the ways different household members and local social norms associated with household roles and relations shape dietary decisions among family members. Social norms comprise the everyday behaviors and interactions that are deemed to be typical and appropriate in a context. These decisions affect food production, budgets and consumption. For example, despite women’s central roles in food provisioning and preparation, dietary decisions are not made individually but rather are shaped by numerous factors. Wider social norms and men’s and women’s expectations shape the resources allocated to household food budgets, dietary and cooking preferences, and how meals are shared. Social norms and other contextual influences contribute to variance on the ground in women’s and men’s control of assets for food production and purchases as well as their market access. While some decisions and activities are made or carried out jointly by the primary adult man and woman in a household, others involve greater gender specialization. A better understanding of the norms shaping household roles and relations at different moments of the nutrition pathway can enhance nutrition-related research and interventions, including by identifying important roles played by “nontraditional” actors such as husbands and mothers-in-law. In what follows, we outline a data collection method for mapping the engagement of household members along the nutrition pathway, beginning at the post-harvest or food purchase stage. This starting point along the pathway owes to the fact that the tool was applied within the larger GENNOVATE study, which also explicitly focused on production decisions in various other parts of the methodology. Yet, the tool can be expanded to analyze decisions and roles related to food production for household use and markets, including livestock raising and related products. As done within the GENNOVATE study, it can be combined with other methods or integrated in a larger data collection effort to understand the factors and processes shaping household production, exchange, and consumption.
Publication - Fostering collaboration in cross-CGIAR research projects and platforms: lessons from the GENNOVATE initiative. GENNOVATE resources for scientists and research teams(CIMMYT, 2018) Elias, M.; Badstue, L.B.; Farnworth, C.; Prain, G.; van der Burg, M.; Petesch, P.; Elmhirst, R.; Bullock, R.; Feldman, S.; Jafry, T.; Netsayi Mudege; Umantseva, A.; Amare Tegbaru; Dina Najjar; Jummai Yila; Behailu, L.A.; Kawarazuka, N.; Kandiwa, V.; Kantor, P.; Luis, J.; Lopez, D.E.; Njuguna-Mungai, E.; Rietveld, A.M.“GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation” is a collaborative study that represents an unprecedented initiative in the CGIAR in its scale and comprehensiveness for examining gender norms, agency, and capacities for innovations. A qualitative study, it brings to life the voices, challenges, and aspirations of local people differentiated by gender, socioeconomic class, and generation under diverse cultures, religions, ecological circumstances, and agricultural systems. The research design was developed collaboratively, and Principal Investigators (PIs) from nearly all CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) contributed substantively to the study. GENNOVATE was initiated from the bottom up in 2013 among CGIAR and associated gender researchers, and was made possible through funding support from CGIAR Trust Fund Donors, the CRPs, the CGIAR Gender and Agricultural Research Network, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the governments of Germany and Mexico. One unique aspect of GENNOVATE is its ability to catalyze collaboration: It brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers across the CRPs and enabled them to carry out a study that covers the many regions where the CGIAR is active. GENNOVATE researchers worked with 137 agricultural communities from 26 countries across the Global South. In this way, the initiative moved beyond the small, isolated studies which have characterized much gender case research towards real time comparisons across many qualitative cases. This has allowed for new patterns to emerge while maintaining emphasis on contextual specificity. The success of the study has rested considerably in its driving principles of systematic collaboration and learning.
Publication - Gender norms, agency, and innovation in agriculture and natural resource management: the GENNOVATE methodology(CIMMYT, 2018) Petesch, P.; Badstue, L.B.; Prain, G.Innovation in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) that ignores gender inequality is limited in its impact and risks worsening the poverty, workload, and wellbeing of poor rural women and their families. Due to deep-seated gender norms—i.e.,societal rules prescribing women’s and men’s roles and behaviors—women and men have different capacities to take advantage of new opportunities in agriculture and NRM. Resultant gender inequalities in the costs and benefits of innovation sometimes contribute to harmful outcomes for different population groups. Yet, how and why this occurs in some circumstances and not others is poorly understood. This limits our capacity to design and scale out agricultural innovations that deliver benefits fairly and efficiently to poor women and men. Tackling this knowledge gap is urgent to achieve more inclusive and prosperous rural development. A team associated with 11 CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs, from Phase I) collaborated in launching a global qualitative field study entitled GENNOVATE (Enabling Gender Equality in Agricultural and Environmental Innovation). The objectives for the research initiative are to: provide robust empirical evidence on the relationship between gender norms, agency, and agricultural innovation, and how these interactions support or hinder the achievement of its development objectives across varied contexts; and inform the CRPs’ theories of change and related research portfolios through identifying the gender-based constraints that need to be overcome in different contexts in order to achieve lasting and equitable improvements in agricultural outcomes. The study will generate in-depth understanding of how gender norms both shape and are shaped by capacities for exercising agency—understood as “the ability to define one’s goals and act upon them” (Kabeer 1999, p. 438)—in agricultural innovation and other development processes at the local level in CRP target regions. It will do so by identifying broad patterns in these interactions and describing local manifestations of these patterns in contexts with different social, economic, agro-ecological, political, and cultural features. Through the collaboration of CRPs in conducting Case studies, the global research initiative will provide comparative findings of relevance across world regions, agricultural systems, and cultural domains.
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