Using the Community Capitals Framework, this article explores the factors enhancing or constraining women’s access to, and control over, the resources required to participate in, and benefit from, small ruminant value chain activities. This is associated with the relationship of women and men to ...
Mulema, Annet A.
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Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Colverson, Kathleen E.
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[Gender-based constraints and opportunities to women’s participation in the small ruminant value chain in Ethiopia: A community capitals analysis]
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Gender-based constraints and opportunities to women’s participation in the small ruminant value chain in Ethiopia: A community capitals analysis
Galiè, Alessandra
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Farnworth, Cathy R.
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[Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse]
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Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse
Climate change and extreme weather events undermine smallholder household food and income security in
southern Africa. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies comprise a suite of interventions that aim to
sustainably increase productivity whilst helping farmers adapt their farming systems to...
Mutenje, M.J.
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Farnworth, Cathy R.
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Stirling, C.
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Thierfelder, Christian
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Mupangwa, W.
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Nyagumbo, I.
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[A cost-benefit analysis of climate-smart agriculture options in Southern Africa: Balancing gender and technology]
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A cost-benefit analysis of climate-smart agriculture options in Southern Africa: Balancing gender and technology
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