Making room for manoeuvre: addressing gender norms to strengthen the enablingenvironment for agricultural innovation

摘要

Local gender norms constitute a critical component of the enabling (or disabling)environment for improved agricultural livelihoods – alongside policies, markets, and otherinstitutional dimensions. Yet, they have been largely ignored in agricultural research fordevelopment. This viewpoint is based on many years of experience, including a recent majorcomparative research initiative, GENNOVATE, on how gender norms and agency interact toshape agricultural change at local levels. The evidence suggests that approaches whichengage with normative dimensions of agricultural development and challenge underlyingstructures of inequality, are required to generate lasting gender-equitable development inagriculture and natural resource management.