Well-Being is a Process of Becoming: Respondent-Led Research With Organic Farmers in Madagascar

Farnworth, Cathy Rozel

doi:10.1007/s11205-008-9314-8

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“…This was followed by systematic in-depth data analysis. The analysis was respondent-led in that it relied on respondent terminology and framing (Farnworth, 2009).…”

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Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia: from innovator to tempered radical

Farnworth¹,

López

Badstue

et al. 2018

Gender, Technology and Development

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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.

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“…This was followed by systematic in-depth data analysis. The analysis was respondent-led in that it relied on respondent terminology and framing (Farnworth, 2009).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia: from innovator to tempered radical

Farnworth¹,

López

Badstue

et al. 2018

Gender, Technology and Development

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“…An electronic search on the history of the journal Social Indicators Research uncovers only one research article (Farnworth 2009) in which the consumption of fruit and vegetables is mentioned in the Abstract or Key Words. That article is not concerned with potential links to subjective well-being or mental health.…”

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Is Psychological Well-being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables?

Blanchflower

Oswald

Stewart‐Brown

2012

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Humans run on a fuel called food. Yet economists and other social scientists rarely study what people eat. We provide simple evidence consistent with the existence of a link between the consumption of fruit and vegetables and high well-being. In cross-sectional data, happiness and mental health rise in an approximately dose-response way with the number of daily portions of fruit and vegetables. The pattern is remarkably robust to adjustment for a large number of other demographic, social and economic variables. Well-being peaks at approximately 7 portions per day. We document this relationship in three data sets, covering approximately 80,000 randomly selected British individuals, and for seven measures of well-being (life satisfaction, WEMWBS mental well-being, GHQ mental disorders, self-reported health, happiness, nervousness, and feeling low). Reverse causality and problems of confounding remain possible. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our analysis, how government policy-makers might wish to react to it, and what kinds of further research --especially randomized trials --would be valuable.

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