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
Globally, water scarcity and poor water quality have a major impact on food security and livelihoods. While there has been significant progress in the past decade, and over 90 per cent of the world’s population now has access to clean drinking water, there is still a long way to go to reach the m...
Models can play a key role towards improving understanding about critical environmental and development challenges, such as declines in soil fertility due to inadequate management practices, or drops in returns to labor as soil fertility declines. They serve as logical constructs that offer a sim...
Micheletti, Giulia
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Elias, Marlène
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[Considerations for gender-responsive mathematical modeling of agriculture and natural resource management]
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Considerations for gender-responsive mathematical modeling of agriculture and natural resource management
SDG 10 calls for reducing inequalities within and among countries. This chapter evaluates the potential effects of addressing SDG 10 from an environmental justice perspective, which comprises three interrelated dimensions: representative, recognition and distributive justice. We find considerable...
Basnett, Bimbika S.
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Myers, Rodd
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Elias, Marlène
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[SDG 10: Reduced inequalities – An environmental justice perspective on implications for forests and people]
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SDG 10: Reduced inequalities – An environmental justice perspective on implications for forests and people
Innovation Platforms (IPs) are multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder ‘spaces’ that bring together actors with different interests in a specific area (e.g. an agricultural product value chain) to negotiate and develop innovations in a participatory manner (Schut et al. 2017). Their participatory na...
Elias, Marlène
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Micheletti, Giulia
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[Practical strategies for enhancing gender equality and social inclusion in Innovation Platforms:
Examples from agriculture and natural resource management]
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Practical strategies for enhancing gender equality and social inclusion in Innovation Platforms:
Examples from agriculture and natural resource management
An estimated 1.6 billion people depend in part or in full on forests and trees outside forests for their livelihoods. Yet, there are important inequities in the distribution of the benefits forests, trees, and agroforests yield to local people. Gender relations and norms, as fundamental organizin...
Elias, Marlène
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Elmirst, R.
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Ibraeva, G.
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Sijapati Basnett, B.
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Ablezova, M.
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Siscawati, M.
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[Understanding gendered innovation processes in forest-based landscapes: case studies from Indonesia and Kyrgyz Republic]
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Understanding gendered innovation processes in forest-based landscapes: case studies from Indonesia and Kyrgyz Republic
Elias, Marlène
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Raneri, Jessica E.
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Petesch, Patti
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Kennedy, G.
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[Using vignettes to explore gender dimensions of household food security and nutrition]
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Using vignettes to explore gender dimensions of household food security and nutrition
Scarce water resources in developing countries are under pressure from climate change, with droughts and extreme weather events particularly impacting rural communities that depend on farming for their survival. Living on this knife edge means that water resources become ever more precious, with ...
Thull, D.
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Elias, Marlène
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Fernández, M.
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[Bioversity International’s Gender Research Fellowship Programme: results and ways forward]
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Bioversity International’s Gender Research Fellowship Programme: results and ways forward