From Policy Promises to Result through Innovation in African Agriculture?

Haug, Ruth; Nchimbi‐Msolla, Susan; Murage, Alice W.; Moeletsi, Mokhele Edmond; Magalasi, Mufunanji; Mutimura, Mupenzi; Hundessa, Feyisa; Cacchiarelli, Luca; Westengen, Ola Tveitereid

doi:10.3390/world2020016

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“…In South Africa, but also in Malawi, women did considerably more of the agricultural work than men. The findings indicate that the agricultural workload on women in smallscale farming appears to be high in the sites in South Africa, followed by Malawi and Tanzania, and rather low in Ethiopia [40]. It seems to be a trend that the higher the level of feminization in agriculture is, the more decisions are made by women, a tendency towards empowerment.…”

Section: Women's Empowerment and Workloadmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…The view expressed in the focus group discussions was that the total workload for women, including both agricultural and domestic tasks, is considerably higher than for men. In addition, men had different mobility situations and the freedom to be away from home for a longer period, with the possibility of using income opportunities outside of the household locality [40]. In Table 5, the differences in workload between men and women are illustrated based on focus group discussions in Rungwe district in Tanzania.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Feminization of African Agriculture and the Meaning of Decision-Making for Empowerment and Sustainability

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The purpose of this study was to assess women’s decision-making power in small-scale agriculture in six African countries in view of the feminization of agriculture and to discuss the meaning of decision-making in relation to women’s empowerment and sustainability. The data are drawn from a multisite and mixed-method agricultural research and development project in six sub-Saharan countries including two sites in each country. The five domains of empowerment outlined in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index are used to structure the analysis. The results indicate that in the selected sites in Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa, women farmers tend to dominate agricultural decision-making, while the result is more mixed in the Kenyan sites, and decision-making tends to be dominated by men in the sites in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Despite women participating in agricultural decision-making, the qualitative results show that women small-scale farmers were not perceived to be empowered in any of the country sites. It appears that the feminization of agriculture leads to women playing a more important role in decision-making but also to more responsibilities and heavier workloads without necessarily resulting in improvements in well-being outcomes that would enhance sustainability.

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“…By unlocking the true potential of potato, the company is especially 'determined to drive sustainable improvements in world food security' [32]. However, moving from promises in relation to urgent and global societal issues to actions that make a difference at the local level is a challenging task [33]. A task that cannot be fulfilled with technological solutions alone.…”

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Responsible Innovation in Plant Breeding: The Case of Hybrid Potato Breeding

Stemerding¹,

Beumer

Edelenbosch

et al. 2023

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As an emerging innovation, hybrid potato breeding raises high expectations about faster variety development and clean true potato seed as a new source of planting material. Hybrid breeding could, therefore, substantially contribute to global food security and other major sustainable development goals. However, its success will not only depend on the performance of hybrid potato in the field, but also on a range of complex and dynamic system conditions. This article is based on a multidisciplinary project in which we have studied the innovation dynamics of hybrid potato breeding and explored how these dynamics may shape the future of hybrid potato. Inspired by the approach of responsible innovation, we closely involved key players in the Dutch and international potato sector and other relevant actors in thinking about these potato futures. An important and recurrent theme in our work is the tension between the predominant commercial innovation dynamics in plant breeding and promises to respond to the global challenges of food security, agrobiodiversity and climate change. In this article, we, therefore, discuss responsible innovation strategies in (hybrid) potato breeding, which may help to bridge this tension and finally reflect on the implications for the field of plant breeding in general.

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“…Furthermore, the five domains of empowerment (agricultural production, resources, income, leadership and time), as defined by the WEAI (Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index), reflect important aspects of empowerment that have been found in the literature ( Haug et al, 2021). Thus, we used these domains in our study to assess the managerial feminization.…”

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Feminization of Agriculture in Nepal and its implications: Addressing Gender in Workload and Decision Making

Lamichhane¹,

Thapa²,

Dhakal³

et al. 2022

Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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The study assesses the two approaches of feminization: labor and managerial, and explores the implication of feminization in agricultural production in Gorkha and Chitwan district of Nepal. We examine the degree to which men, women or men and women jointly make agriculture-related decisions, and discuss the labor feminization and managerial feminization using five domains of the Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), relative to the degree to which women’s decision-making power relates to the feminization of agriculture leading to women empowerment and food security. The results revealed that the average workload for women (86.50 hours/week) was more than that for men (55.52 hours/week). Workload was found significantly affected by the total cultivated area (ha), gender of household head, occupation, number of livestock holdings, number of children, number of elders and household location.All aspects of operational and strategic decision making were dominated by jointly made decisions, except in the case of income utilization where female showed dominance. The implication of feminization in agriculture is reflected by reduction in cropping cycle, lower productivity of cereals and vegetables which led to food insecurity by own production. The income from remittance was observed to be mainly used for consumption purposes to ensure food security. It appears that the feminization of agriculture leads to women playing not only important role in decision-making but also more responsibilities and heavier workloads without necessarily resulting in empowerment and improvement in well-being.

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From Policy Promises to Result through Innovation in African Agriculture?

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Feminization of African Agriculture and the Meaning of Decision-Making for Empowerment and Sustainability

Feminization of African Agriculture and the Meaning of Decision-Making for Empowerment and Sustainability

Responsible Innovation in Plant Breeding: The Case of Hybrid Potato Breeding

Feminization of Agriculture in Nepal and its implications: Addressing Gender in Workload and Decision Making

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