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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 - 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 - 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.
Publication - Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: the GENNOVATE field methodology(Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 2018) Petesch, P.; Badstue, L.B.; Camfield, L.; Feldman, S.; Prain, G.; Kantor, P.We present a field-tested “medium-n” qualitative comparative methodology, which enhances understanding of the strong and fluid influence of gender norms on processes of local agricultural innovation in the Global South. The GENNOVATE approach (“Enabling Gender Equality in Agricultural and Environmental Innovation”) weaves together three broad methodological challenges—context, comparison, and collaboration—and highlights how addressing the social context of innovation contributes to applied research. We discuss GENNOVATE’s analytic approach, sampling framework, data collection, and analysis procedures, and reflect critically on the research strategies adopted to document and learn from the perspectives and experiences of over 7,000 women and men in 137 villages across 26 low- and middle-income countries.
Publication - Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: an introduction to GENNOVATE(Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 2018) Badstue, L.B.; Petesch, P.; Feldman, S.; Prain, G.; Elias, M.; Kantor, P.What is the relationship between gender norms, agency, and agricultural innovation? How might we undertake and what can we learn from a comparative approach to this question? GENNOVATE—a comparative and collaborative research project—addresses these questions using contextually embedded qualitative analyses that also allow for comparison and extrapolation of patterns across multiple locations. This paper provides an overview of the conceptual approach and the methodological strategy that informed GENNOVATE's twin objectives and research design. The conceptual framework underlying this original research initiative is introduced and the challenges and opportunities faced when combining inductive and deductive analytic approaches are discussed. The empirical and methodological issues are explored and the broad relevance of GENNOVATE’s research approach beyond the field of agricultural development is reflected upon.
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