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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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Title What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
 
Creator Badstue, L
Lopez, D E
Umantseva, A
Williams, G
Elias, M
Farnworth, C R
Rietveld, A
Njuguna, E M
Luis, J
Najjar, D
Kandiwa, V
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Innovation
Asia
Africa
Gender Research
 
Description 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 data form part of 84 GENNOVATE community case studies from 19
countries. Building on study participants’ own reflections and experiences with innovation in
their agricultural livelihoods, we combine variable-oriented analysis and analysis of specific
individuals’ lived experience. Results indicate that factors related to personality and agency are
what most drive women’s and men’s capacity to innovate. Access to resources is not a
prerequisite but rather an important enabling aspect. Different types of women have great
potential for local innovation, but structural inequalities make men better positioned to access
resources and leverage support. Men’s support is important when women challenge the status
quo.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11185/1/What%20drives%20capacity%20to%20innovate.pdf
Badstue, L and Lopez, D E and Umantseva, A and Williams, G and Elias, M and Farnworth, C R and Rietveld, A and Njuguna, E M and Luis, J and Najjar, D and Kandiwa, V (2018) What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 3 (1). pp. 54-81. ISSN 2413-922X