Towards gender-inclusive innovation: Assessing local conditions for agricultural targeting.

ABSTRACT: The importance of gender norms in agricultural innovation processes has been recognized. However, the operational integration of these normative issues into the innovation strategies of agricultural interventions remains challenging. This article advances a replicable, integrative research approach that captures key local conditions to inform the design and targeting of gender-inclusive interventions. We focus on the gender climate across multiple contexts to add to the limited indicators available for assessing gender norms at scale. The notion of gender climate refers to the socially constituted rules that prescribe men's and women's behaviour in a specific geographic location-with some being more restrictive and others more relaxed. We examine the gender climate of 70 villages across 13

SUBMITTER: Lopez DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8947084 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature