Making room for manoeuvre: addressing gender norms to strengthen the enabling environment for agricultural innovation. Issue 4 (18th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Badstue, Lone; Elias, Marlène; Kommerell, Victor; Petesch, Patti; Prain, Gordon; Pyburn, Rhiannon; Umantseva, Anya
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 30:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 541
• Page End: 547
• Publication Date: 2020-05-18
• Subjects: Gender and diversity -- Environment (built and natural) – Agriculture, Food security -- Labour and livelihoods –Poverty reduction; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1757624
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Local gender norms constitute a critical component of the enabling (or disabling) environment for improved agricultural livelihoods – alongside policies, markets, and other institutional dimensions. Yet, they have been largely ignored in agricultural research for development. This viewpoint is based on many years of experience, including a recent major comparative research initiative, GENNOVATE, on how gender norms and agency interact to shape agricultural change at local levels. The evidence suggests that approaches which engage with normative dimensions of agricultural development and challenge underlying structures of inequality, are required to generate lasting gender-equitable development in agriculture and natural resource management.