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- Youth in relation to agroecology: practices, promises, and perceptions in five countries(Taylor and Francis, 2025) Rietveld, A.M.; Guettou-Djurfeldt, N.; Shijagurumayum, M.; Gupta, S.; Tristán Febres; Chimonyo, V.G.P.; Nehring, R.; Murugani, V.G.; Idoudi, Z.; Singh, S.
Publication - Agency and behavior change in agricultural research for development: new directions for guiding agri-food system transformations(Elsevier Ltd, 2025) Freed, S.; Voss, R.C.; Falk, T.; Rietveld, A.M.; Alary, V.; Chimonyo, V.G.P.; Frija, A.; Guettou-Djurfeldt, N.; Lestrelin, G.; Singh, S.; Ndiwa, A.M.; Zingwena, T.
Publication - Women, economic resilience, gender norms in a time of climate change: what do we know?([CIMMYT], 2023) Farnworth, C.; Rietveld, A.M.; Voss, R.C.; Meentzen, A.
Publication - Predictable patterns of unsustainable intensification(Taylor and Francis, 2021) Rietveld, A.M.; Groot, J.; van der Burg, M.
Publication - Community typology framed by normative climate for agricultural innovation, empowerment, and poverty reduction(Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 2018) Petesch, P.; Feldman, S.; Elias, M.; Badstue, L.B.; Najjar, D.; Rietveld, A.M.; Bullock, R.; Kawarazuka, N.; Luis, J.This paper employs the concepts of gender norms and agency to advance understanding of inclusive agricultural innovation processes and their contributions to empowerment and poverty reduction at the village level. We present a community typology informed by normative influences on how people assess conditions and trends for village women and men to make important decisions (or to exercise agency) and for local households to escape poverty. The typology is comprised of three village typestransforming, climbing and churning with each type depicting a different normative climate and trajectory of change in agency and poverty levels. Across “transforming” villages with significant increases in people’s agency and poverty reduction, we found a highly inclusive normative climate that is fueling gender equality and agricultural innovation, as well as infrastructural improvements, expanded markets, and male labor migration. The research, part of the GENNOVATE initiative, includes a qualitative comparative methodology and dataset of 79 village cases from 17 countries.
Publication - Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa(Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 2018) Petesch, P.; Bullock, R.; Feldman, S.; Badstue, L.B.; Rietveld, A.M.; Bauchspies, W.; Kamanzi, A.; Amare Tegbaru; Jummai YilaWe introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change.
Publication - What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America(Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 2018) Badstue, L.B.; Lopez, D.E.; Umantseva, A.; Williams, G.J.; Elias, M.; Farnworth, C.; Rietveld, A.M.; Njuguna-Mungai, E.; Luis, J.; Najjar, D.; Kandiwa, V.What are key characteristics of rural innovators? How are their experiences similar for women and men, and how are they different? To examine these questions, we draw on individual interviews with 336 rural women and men known in their communities for trying out new things in agriculture. The data form part of 84 GENNOVATE community case studies from 19 countries. Building on study participants’ own reflections and experiences with innovation in their agricultural livelihoods, we combine variable-oriented analysis and analysis of specific individuals’ lived experience. Results indicate that factors related to personality and agency are what most drive women’s and men’s capacity to innovate. Access to resources is not a prerequisite but rather an important enabling aspect. Different types of women have great potential for local innovation, but structural inequalities make men better positioned to access resources and leverage support. Men’s support is important when women challenge the status quo.
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