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- Unequal partners: associations between power, agency and benefits among women and men maize farmers in Nigeria(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Farnworth, C.; Badstue, L.B.; Williams, G.J.; Amare Tegbaru; Gaya, H.I.M.
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 - Gender Mainstreaming in the Nutritious Maize for Ethiopia (NuME) Project(CIMMYT, 2018) Tsegaye, M.; Buttner, M.; Williams, G.J.; Chere, A.T.The Nutritious Maize for Ethiopia (NuME) Project aims to mainstream gender by promoting gender-aware thinking and activities at distinct implementation levels. Evidence shows that gender inequality is closely connected to food and nutrition insecurity (e.g., Belachew et al. 2011; Haidar and Kogi-Makau 2009). Women face genderspecific constraints regarding access to and control over agricultural resources such as land, inputs and credit. Though playing a major role in agricultural production and related tasks, they often lack knowledge of new agricultural technologies and practices, and agricultural extension regularly excludes them. Given women’s important, though underappreciated, role in agriculture and in the family as primary caregivers, their inclusion in all phases of the maize production and consumption chain was identified as imperative.
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.
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