viii 6.6 Conclusions ______________________________________________________________ Notes ______________________________________________________________________ Chapter 7. General discussion: Lessons about local normative climates __ 7.1 Revisiting the three research questions _________________________________________ Q1 How do gender and other social norms operate to shape and accommodate the diverse and changing conditions of rural communities? ___________________________________ Q2 How do the mutually shaping dynamics of gender norms and women's and men's agency advance or impede agricultural innovation in a community? _________________________ Q3 Under what conditions do local men and women observe empowerment and poverty reduction in their village? Do processes of gender-equitable agricultural innovation contribute to these outcomes? _________________________________________________________ 7.2 Building lessons with social mechanism theory __________________________________ 7.2.1 Environmental, cognitive, and relational mechanisms ______________________ 7.2.2 Framing local normative climate as a cognitive mechanism __________________ 7.3 Multi-level reflections on the transforming cases _________________________________ 7.3.1 Introduction to the MLP _____________________________________________ 7.3.2 Gender, technology, and system innovation ______________________________ 7.4 Taking LNC Forward ______________________________________________________ 7.5 Conclusion ______________________________________________________________ Notes ______________________________________________________________________ References _____________________________________________________