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Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

dc.contributor.authorPetesch, P.
dc.contributor.authorBullock, R.
dc.contributor.authorFeldman, S.
dc.contributor.authorBadstue, L.
dc.contributor.authorRietveld, A.
dc.contributor.authorBauchspies, W.
dc.contributor.authorKamanzi, A.
dc.contributor.authorTegbaru, A.
dc.contributor.authorYila, J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:26:28Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:26:28Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationPetesch, P., Bullock, R., Feldman, S., Badstue, L., Rietveld, A., Bauchspies, W., ... Yila, J. (2018). Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security. 3(1), 108-130.
dc.identifier.issn2413-922X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/4614
dc.descriptionOpen Access Journal
dc.description.abstractWe introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change.
dc.description.sponsorshipBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
dc.description.sponsorshipWorld Bank
dc.format.extent108-130
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectEmpowerment
dc.subjectAfrica South Of Saharah
dc.subjectClimate
dc.subjectQualitative Analysis
dc.subjectLivelihoods
dc.titleLocal normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationCornell University
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity International
cg.contributor.affiliationMichigan State University
cg.contributor.affiliationVirtual University of Uganda
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
cg.creator.identifierRenee Bullock: 0000-0001-9561-0394
cg.creator.identifierAmare Tegbaru: 0000-0002-0692-9887
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectClimate Change
cg.iitasubjectLivelihoods
cg.journalJournal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
local.dspaceid101031
cg.targetaudienceScientists


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