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- 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 - Continuity and change: performing gender in rural Tanzania(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Badstue, L.B.; Farnworth, C.; Umantseva, A.; Kamanzi, A.; Roeven, L.
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 - 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 - 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.
Publication - Tipping points in development domains using a gender lens(CIMMYT, 2017) Badstue, L.B.; Kruseman, G.; Petesch, P.; Umantseva, A.
Publication - Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems(GENNOVATE, 2017) Badstue, L.B.; Petesch, P.; Williams, G.J.; Umantseva, A.; Moctezuma, D.For more than half a century, wheat research for development has delivered highly valuable technologies. Some of these have had very large impacts, significantly improving productivity, food security and incomes. However, for other possibly equally good technologies, the impacts have been more limited. Most of the innovations developed by the CGIAR and partners have been, and continue to be, driven by a focus on resolving important technical problems, such as low-yielding and susceptible varieties; widespread crop pests and diseases; debilitating abiotic stresses; and the productivity problems of poor quality seed. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that without appropriate incorporation of gender and other social considerations in agricultural research and development (AR&D), otherwise technically superior innovations can be limited in their impact and in some cases may even lead to further exacerbation of social inequalities (Cornwall & Edwards, 2010; Okali, 2011, 2012; Kumar & Quisumbing, 2010). Deep-seated gender norms contribute to important inequalities in the ability of women, men and youth to learn about, try out, adapt, and benefit from new agricultural and natural resource management (NRM) technologies and practices. Such norms often limit women’s access to and control over productive resources (Quisumbing and Pandolfelli, 2010), which in turn further constrain their capacities to access new technologies and practices (Ragasa, 2012). Yet, how and why women in some contexts can effectively access and benefit from new technologies but not in others, remains poorly understood. This lack of understanding of the relationship between local contextual characteristics, including the normative environment for gender and wider social inclusion, and uptake of agricultural technologies, constrains the capacity of agricultural research for development (AR4D) to design and scale out innovations that enable adult and young women and men in poor communities to engage and benefit. This report illuminates how gender norms and agency work together to shape access to, adoption of, and benefits from agricultural innovation at the local level. The findings are based on the perspectives and experiences of approximately 2,500 women and men who live and work in 43 villages of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, where wheat is a key crop.
Publication - Gender and innovation processes in Maize-Based Systems(CIMMYT, 2017) Petesch, P.; Badstue, L.B.; Williams, E.G.; Farnworth, C.; Umantseva, A.For several decades maize research for development has delivered valuable improved technologies to poor farmers. Some of these innovations significantly enhanced productivity, food security, and incomes, while others have had more limited impacts. Most of the innovations developed by the CGIAR and partners have been, and continue to be, driven by a focus on resolving important technical problems, such as low-yielding and susceptible varieties; widespread crop pests and diseases; debilitating abiotic stresses; and the productivity problems of poor quality seed. Evidence is growing that without appropriate incorporation of gender and other social considerations in agricultural research and development, otherwise technically superior innovations can be limited in their impact and in some cases may even lead to exacerbation of social inequalities (Cornwall & Edwards, 2010; Okali 2011, 2012; Kumar & Quisumbing, 2010). Deep-seated gender norms—or societal expectations governing women’s and men’s daily behaviors—contribute to important differences in the ability of women, men, and youth to learn about, try out, adapt, and benefit from new agricultural and natural resource management (NRM) technologies and practices. Such norms often limit women’s access to and control over productive resources (e.g., Quisumbing & Pandolfelli, 2010), which in turn further constrain their capacities to access new technologies and practices (e.g., Ragasa, 2012). Yet, how and why women in some contexts can effectively access and benefit from new technologies but not in others, remains poorly understood. This lack of understanding of the relationship between local contextual characteristics, including the normative environment for gender and wider social inclusion, and the uptake of agricultural technologies, restrains the capacity of agricultural research for development (AR4D) to design and scale out innovations that enable women and men in poor communities to engage and benefit. This report examines the gender dimensions of agricultural innovation and wider social change. The findings are based on the perspectives and experiences of approximately 1,600 women and men who reside in 27 villages of Ethiopia, Malawi, Mexico, Nigeria, Nepal, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe where maize is a key crop. This study is part of the wider GENNOVATE (Enabling Gender Equality in Agricultural and Environmental Innovation) research initiative conducted in 26 countries. The research methodology was designed to illuminate how gender norms and agency work together to shape access to, adoption of, and benefits from agricultural innovation. Gender norms underpin gender power relations and continue to privilege men’s agency, authority, and resource control. Yet, these norms are in flux around the world, and, in the set of research villages where the normative environment encourages both women’s and men’s agency and participation in agricultural innovation, the evidence points to more rapid and inclusive rural development on the ground.
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