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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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  • Badstue, Lone
  • Lopez, Diana E.
  • Umansteva, Anya
  • Williams, George
  • Elias, Marlene
  • Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
  • Rietveld, Anne
  • Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
  • Luis, Joyce
  • Najjar, Dina
  • Kandiwa, Vongai

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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.

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  • Badstue, Lone & Lopez, Diana E. & Umansteva, Anya & Williams, George & Elias, Marlene & Farnworth, Cathy Rozel & Rietveld, Anne & Njuguna-Mungai, Esther & Luis, Joyce & Najjar, Dina & Kandiwa, Vongai, 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 (Agri-Gender), Africa Centre for Gender, Social Research and Impact Assessment, vol. 3(1), September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:afgend:293588
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.293588
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    1. McGuire, Erin & Rietveld, Anne M. & Crump, Amanda & Leeuwis, Cees, 2022. "Anticipating gender impacts in scaling innovations for agriculture: Insights from the literature," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 25(C).
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    4. Margaret A. McEwan & Moses S. Matui & Sarah Mayanja & Sam Namanda & Kwame Ogero, 2023. "Gender dynamics in seed systems: female makeover or male takeover of specialized sweetpotato seed production, in Lake Zone Tanzania?," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 15(3), pages 693-710, June.
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