Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia

Sustainable agricultural development depends on female and male smallholders being effective farmers. This includes the ability to access or control resources and make the best decisions possible agro-ecologically, economically, and socially. Traditionally, gendered studies on innovation practice fo...

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Autores: Badstue, L.B., Petesch, P., Farnworth, C., Roeven, L., Hailemariam, M.
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Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo
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Palabra clave:AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Gender Norms
Capacity to Innovate
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN
MARITAL STATUS
GENDER
INNOVATION
WHEAT
MAIZE
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spelling Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural EthiopiaBadstue, L.B.Petesch, P.Farnworth, C.Roeven, L.Hailemariam, M.AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGYGender NormsCapacity to InnovateSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTWOMENMARITAL STATUSGENDERINNOVATIONWHEATMAIZESustainable agricultural development depends on female and male smallholders being effective farmers. This includes the ability to access or control resources and make the best decisions possible agro-ecologically, economically, and socially. Traditionally, gendered studies on innovation practice focus on female-versus male-headed households. In this paper, we focus on married women in acknowledged male-headed households and women heading their own households to examine how marital status influences women’s capacity to innovate in their rural livelihoods. Using data from eight community case studies in Ethiopia, we used variable-oriented and contextualized case-oriented analysis to understand factors which promote or constrain women’s innovative capacities. We use Kabeer’s Resources–Agency–Achievements framework to structure our findings. Single women are more likely to own land and experience control over their production decisions and expenditures than married women, but engage in considerable struggle to obtain resources that should be theirs according to the law. Even when land is secured, customary norms often hamper women’s effective use of land and their ability to innovate. Still, some single women do succeed. Married women can innovate successfully provided they are in a collaborative relationship with their husbands. Finally, we find that gender-based violence limits women’s achievements. The article concludes with recommendations.MDPI2020-12-11T01:15:14Z2020-12-11T01:15:14Z2020Published Versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/2106710.3390/su1223984723122071-1050Sustainability9847reponame:Repositorio Institucional de Publicaciones Multimedia del CIMMYTinstname:Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigoinstacron:CIMMYTEnglishEthiopiaBasel (Switzerland)CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purposeOpen Accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repository.cimmyt.org:10883/210672024-10-11T19:59:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
title Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
spellingShingle Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
Badstue, L.B.
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Gender Norms
Capacity to Innovate
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN
MARITAL STATUS
GENDER
INNOVATION
WHEAT
MAIZE
title_short Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
title_full Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
title_fullStr Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
title_sort Women farmers and agricultural innovation: marital status and normative expectations in rural Ethiopia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Badstue, L.B.
Petesch, P.
Farnworth, C.
Roeven, L.
Hailemariam, M.
author Badstue, L.B.
author_facet Badstue, L.B.
Petesch, P.
Farnworth, C.
Roeven, L.
Hailemariam, M.
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author2 Petesch, P.
Farnworth, C.
Roeven, L.
Hailemariam, M.
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author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Gender Norms
Capacity to Innovate
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN
MARITAL STATUS
GENDER
INNOVATION
WHEAT
MAIZE
topic AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Gender Norms
Capacity to Innovate
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN
MARITAL STATUS
GENDER
INNOVATION
WHEAT
MAIZE
description Sustainable agricultural development depends on female and male smallholders being effective farmers. This includes the ability to access or control resources and make the best decisions possible agro-ecologically, economically, and socially. Traditionally, gendered studies on innovation practice focus on female-versus male-headed households. In this paper, we focus on married women in acknowledged male-headed households and women heading their own households to examine how marital status influences women’s capacity to innovate in their rural livelihoods. Using data from eight community case studies in Ethiopia, we used variable-oriented and contextualized case-oriented analysis to understand factors which promote or constrain women’s innovative capacities. We use Kabeer’s Resources–Agency–Achievements framework to structure our findings. Single women are more likely to own land and experience control over their production decisions and expenditures than married women, but engage in considerable struggle to obtain resources that should be theirs according to the law. Even when land is secured, customary norms often hamper women’s effective use of land and their ability to innovate. Still, some single women do succeed. Married women can innovate successfully provided they are in a collaborative relationship with their husbands. Finally, we find that gender-based violence limits women’s achievements. The article concludes with recommendations.
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