Tempered radicals are change agents who experience the dominant culture as a violation of the integrity and authenticity of their personal values and beliefs. They seek to move forward whilst challenging the status quo. Does the concept provide a useful analytic lens through which the strategies of women and men farmer innovators, who are ‘doing things differently’ in agriculture, can be interpreted? What are their strategies for turning ambivalence and tension to their advantage? The paper uses research data derived from two wheat-growing communities in Oromia Region, Ethiopia, an area characterized by generally restrictive gendered norms and a technology transfer extension system. The findings demonstrate that women and men innovators actively interrogate and contest gender norms and extension narratives. Whilst both women and men innovators face considerable challenges, women, in particular, are precariously located ‘outsiders within,’ negotiating carefully between norm and sanction. Although the findings are drawn from a small sample, they have implications for interventions aiming to support agricultural innovation processes which support women’s, as well as men’s, innovatory practice. The framework facilitates a useful understanding of how farmer innovators operate and in particular, significant differences in how women and men interrogate, negotiate and align themselves with competing narratives.

PurposeTo interrogate the grand narrative of “entrepreneurship for development” that dominates international development circles, by applying a feminist critical discourse analysis that prioritizes women's situated experiences as local stories.Design/methodology/approachTwo existing frameworks for analysing women's entrepreneurship, namely the 5M (Brush et al., 2009) and the 8M (Abuhussein and Koburtay, 2021) frameworks, are used to examine the local stories of women in rural Ethiopia to provide a counter-narrative to the grand narrative of “entrepreneurship for development”. The local stories are derived from 16 focus group discussions and 32 interviews.FindingsThe findings provide a counter-narrative to the grand narrative of “entrepreneurship for development”, evident in Ethiopia and in international development generally, while demonstrating larger structural issues at play. They challenge entrepreneurship's solely positive effects. While women recognize the benefits of having a business, particularly in terms of financial gains, empowerment and social recognition, they also highlight negative consequences, including uncertainty, concerns for their own personal safety, criticism, stress, limited social life and fear of indebtedness and poverty.Practical implicationsPolicymakers, scholars and development professionals are urged to reflect on the limitations of “entrepreneurship for development” and to consider the negative effects that promoting an acritical grand narrative of entrepreneurship could have on women's lives.Originality/valueThe article advances an innovative partnership between feminist analysis and established women's entrepreneurship frameworks to contest dominant assumptions in the fields of entrepreneurship and international development studies. It adds to the limited empirical evidence on women's entrepreneurial activity in Ethiopia, tests the adequacy of the 5M and 8M frameworks in the rural low-income context of Ethiopia, and proposes a 7+M framework as an alternative to study rural women's entrepreneurship in low and middle income countries.

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El cilantro en México es consumido en fresco y las variedades cultivadas son de procedencia extranjera, y no existe reportes de germoplasma con alto contenido de aceite que puedan ser usadas en la industria. El objetivo fue evaluar fenotípica, morfológica y bioquímicamente siete líneas avanzadas de cilantro con características agronómicas deseables para producción de biomasa fresca y aceite. Bajo un diseño en bloques completos al azar se sembraron las líneas L9-CB, L13-CB, L17-CB, L21-CB, L25-CB, 29-CB e INIFAP-17. El manejo agronómico se realizó de acuerdo con González et al. (2017). Se determinaron los caracteres fenotípicos, morfológicos y bioquímicos en planta y semilla. El mejor material para la producción en fresco fue la línea INIFAP-17 por su mayor numero de hojas basales (31), biomasa fresca (221 g) y largo periodo vegetativo, mientras que para producción de semilla las mejores líneas fueron L9-CB (1.12 g pta-1) y L13-CB (1.16 g pta-1) son una opción. El contenido de aceite de las líneas avanzadas analizadas (6.21 a 11.23%) fue mayor al reportado en la literatura (3-5%). El ácido petroselínico fue el mayoritario con una concentración de entre 68.95 y 73.51 g 100 g-1 de aceite, seguido por el ácido linoleico (14.2-18.55 g 100 g-1 de aceite). Desde el punto de vista nutracéutico, el aceite de cilantro presentó una relación oleico/linoleico (O/L) menor a 1. Es de interés identificar germoplasma con mayor contenido de ácido linoleico porque la relación O/L mayor a 1 contribuye a prevenir ciertas enfermedades.