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 qualitati...
Badstue, Lone B.
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Petesch, Patti
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Feldman, Shelley
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Prain, Gordon
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Elias, Marlène
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Kantor, Paula
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[Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: An introduction to GENNOVATE]
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Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: An introduction to GENNOVATE
Badstue, Lone B.
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Petesch, Patti
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Williams, G.
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Umantseva, A.
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[Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems]
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Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems
This article presents research conducted in Nepal’s Terai plains in 2014-15 showing that women are innovating in wheat to the extent that wheat farming is experiencing a shift from feminization of agricultural labor towards women taking control over decision making. Processes accounting for this ...
Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Jafry, Tahseen
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Lama, Kanchan
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Chatterjee, Sushila
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Badstue, Lone B.
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[From working in the wheat field to managing wheat: Women innovators in Nepal]
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From working in the wheat field to managing wheat: Women innovators in Nepal
Bangladesh is strongly committed to the “leave no one behind” principle of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, social norms and institutional biases in agricultural organisations can prevent indigenous peoples and women from participating in wheat–maize innovation processes, as they ...
Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Jafry, Tahseen
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Rahman, S.
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Badstue, Lone B.
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[Leaving no one behind: How women seize control of wheat-maize technologies in Bangladesh]
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Leaving no one behind: How women seize control of wheat-maize technologies in Bangladesh
This paper explores whether the concept of tempered radicals provides a useful analytic lens through which the strategies of women and men farmer innovators, who are ‘doing things differently’ in agriculture, can be interpreted. The paper uses research data derived from two wheat-growing communit...
Farnworth, Cathy R.
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López, Diana E.
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Badstue, Lone B.
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Hailemariam, Mahelet
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Abeyo, Bekele G.
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[Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia: From innovator to tempered radical]
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Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia: From innovator to tempered radical
This MAIZE report offers a panorama of the gender dimensions of local agricultural innovation processes in the context of maize-based farming systems and livelihoods.
Petesch, Patti
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Badstue, Lone B.
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Williams, G.
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Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Umantseva, A.
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[Gender and innovation processes in maize-based systems]
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Gender and innovation processes in maize-based systems
Petesch, Patti
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Badstue, Lone B.
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Camfield, Laura
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Feldman, Shelley
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Prain, Gordon
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Kantor, Paula
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[Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: The GENNOVATE field methodology]
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Qualitative, comparative, and collaborative research at large scale: The GENNOVATE field methodology