This article is a reflection on collaborative policy research on liberalisation, gender and livelihoods in the cashew sector in Mozambique. The research aims to examine the effects of liberalisation in the cashew sector from a gender perspective and to study the extent to which women and men's livelihoods may be enhanced by recent strategies to revive the sector. The article has two objectives: first, to illustrate the way in which representations of women's involvement in the cashew sector in earlier research can be contested (cracking some myths) and second, to illustrate some of the challenges involved in translating findings into policy messages, so as to not merely generate another set of myths.
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