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
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 dat...
Badstue, Lone B.
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López, Diana E.
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Umantseva, Anja
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Williams, George
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Elias, Marlène
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Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Rietveld, Anne M.
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Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
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Luis, Joyce S.
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Najjar, Dina
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Kandiwa, Vongai
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[What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America]
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What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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
We 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 f...
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
Elias, Marlène
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Badstue, Lone B.
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Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Prain, Gordon
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Burg, M. van der
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Petesch, Patti
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Elmhirst, R.
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Bullock, Renee M.
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Feldman, Shelley
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Jafry, Tahseen
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Mudege, Netsayi N.
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Umantseva, A.
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Tegbaru, Amare
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Najjar, Dina
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Yila, Jummai
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[Fostering collaboration in cross-CGIAR research projects and platforms: Lessons from the GENNOVATE initiative]
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Fostering collaboration in cross-CGIAR research projects and platforms: Lessons from the GENNOVATE initiative