Does climate-smart village approach influence gender equality in farming households? A case of two contrasting ecologies in India

Hariharan, Vinod K.; Mittal, Surabhi; Rai, Mamta; Agarwal, Tripti; Kalvaniya, Kailash; Jat, M.L.

doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2321-0

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“…Projects may define empowerment loosely as 'better participation in the decision-making process' 57 , with a focus on equal opportunity. Equating equal numbers with empowerment can lead to a 'tyranny of participation' 44 , whereby turning up is defined as empowerment, and the social, cultural and structural barriers to meaningful empowerment are neither acknowledged or addressed 58 Simply encouraging equal numbers of women to participate may merely serve to reinforce traditional gender roles.…”

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Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

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Gender has a powerful influence on people's experience of, and resilience to, climate change.Global climate change policy is committed to tackling gender inequalities in mitigation and adaptation. However, progress is hindered by numerous challenges, including an enduring set of gender assumptions; women are caring and connected to the environment; women are a homogenous and vulnerable group; gender equality is a women's issue and; gender equality is a numbers game. We provide an overview of how these assumptions essentialize women's and men's characteristics, narrowly diagnose the causes of gender inequality, and thereby propel strategies that have unintended and even counterproductive consequences. We offer four suggestions for a more informed pursuit of gender equality in climate change policy and practice.

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Section: Gender Equality Is a Numbers Gamementioning

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Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

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“…In addition, a number of impact assessments have also been conducted, to evaluate impact of the program's efforts to end users (Gill, 2014;Aryal et al, 2015;Murendo and Wollni, 2015;Reddy, 2015;Hariharan et al, 2020). The program's accountability to facilitating outcomes also received favorable review in the program-wide evaluation, wherein accountability within the CCAFS program was considered to be enhanced as a result of the results based management and the associated approach of developing theories of change (Anderson et al, 2016).…”

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A Changing Climate for Knowledge Generation in Agriculture: Lessons to Institutionalize Science-Policy Engagement

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Vervoort³

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Front. Clim.

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Effective science-policy engagement efforts are crucial to accelerate climate action. Such efforts should be underpinned by high-quality knowledge generation that enhances salience, credibility and legitimacy of research results. This is particularly important for the agricultural sector. Agriculture has been identified as a priority for climate action. The sector also constitutes well-established institutions set up to help achieve food and nutrition security. Institutionalizing high quality knowledge generation for climate change adaptation within these institutions presents a major opportunity to catalyze climate action within the sector. To contribute to insights about this institutionalization, we draw on and develop Cash et al.'s 2002 success conditions for enhancing salience, credibility and legitimacy: (1) increased accountability, (2) use of boundary objects, (3) participation across the boundary, (4) mediation and a selectively permeable boundary, (5) translation, and (6) coordination and complementary expertise. We examine how these success conditions apply in a major global case of agricultural research for development under climate change: the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). We explore these success conditions in the wider context of CGIAR reform and response to climate change as the international system for Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D). Our results specify and confirm the practical relevance of the six success conditions for institutional design and reform, but also point to the need to complement these with two inductively-derived success conditions: effective leadership and presence of incentives. To institutionalize these success conditions among AR4D institutions, there is an urgent need to create a conducive environment that enables the development of context-specific science-policy engagement strategies, along with leadership development and efforts to break traditional disciplinary silos which constrain user-oriented knowledge production.

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“…Differences among regions, villages, or among landscapes can also account for differences in adaptation, vulnerability, or empowerment levels among women. For example, in a study in two Indian CSVs, Hariharan et al [37] found that overall women in the Bihar CSV had a lower degree of empowerment than women in the Haryana CSV when measured using the "Gender Empowerment Index", which assesses men's and women's progress in both the use of sustainable farming practices and economic returns from agricultural enterprises as well as improvements in social and political engagement. The authors attributed that fact to the broadly lower level of empowerment among both men and women in Bihar.…”

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Exploring Women’s Differentiated Access to Climate-Smart Agricultural Interventions in Selected Climate-Smart Villages of Latin America

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Much of the literature examining the role of gender in processes of climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector has focused primarily on differences between male and female farmers, implicitly treating men and women as homogenous groups. Where heterogeneity exists within these groups which impacts climate change adaptation efforts and outcomes, an understanding of such intersectionalities is vital to the design of effective and equitable policy. The objective of this study is to investigate whether interaction effects among socio-economic factors are meaningful drivers of observed differences among female farmers in their adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices, as well as their use of climate information and financial services. This study employs data from farmer surveys in three Climate-Smart Villages in Latin America, analyzed using ordinal logistic regression and canonical correspondence analysis. The results indicate that important interaction effects are present: the relationship between higher educational attainment and increased adoption of CSA practices, for example, is conditional on the degree of livelihood diversification. The relationship between greater educational attainment and increased use of climate forecasts is likewise conditional on age. These results suggest the need for researchers and policymakers to anticipate potential intersectionalities when designing research efforts and development interventions.

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Does climate-smart village approach influence gender equality in farming households? A case of two contrasting ecologies in India

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

A Changing Climate for Knowledge Generation in Agriculture: Lessons to Institutionalize Science-Policy Engagement

Exploring Women’s Differentiated Access to Climate-Smart Agricultural Interventions in Selected Climate-Smart Villages of Latin America

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