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    Realizing Inclusive SAI: contextualizing indicators to better evaluate gender and intergenerational inequity in SAI processes and outcomes – cases from Southern and western Africa

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    Date
    2021
    Author
    Zulu, L.C.
    Djenontin, I.N.
    Darkwah, A.
    Kamoto, J.
    Kampanje-Phiri, J.
    Fischer, G.
    Grabowski, P.
    Egyir, I.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    Abstract/Description
    Despite increasing sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) investments, indicators for detecting gender and intergenerational inequities in SAI costs and benefits sharing often remain overgeneralized, theoretical, or locally irrelevant. We examine the relative value of, and how to, customize standard SAI indicators to detect such inequities in specific socio-cultural contexts to enhance data collection for evidence-based decision making in fostering gender/youth inclusive SAI. Using focus-group discussions and key informant interviews among farmers and diverse government, NGO, private sector, and academic stakeholders in two districts in Malawi and three in Ghana, we assess the perceived roles, differentiated needs/priorities of men, women and youth, and the sharing of SAI burdens and benefits within farming households. We investigate what context-appropriate questions to ask, to whom, and how, to collect reliable information on indicators of SAI-investment inequities. Results illuminate context-specific, gendered and intergenerational factors shaping access to and ownership of productive resources, household decision making, SAI participation, and appropriateness of selected indicators. Combining farmers' and local field-expert' perspectives offers practical insights for customizing inequity indicators. Findings highlight advantages of local contextualization of SAI indicators, including insights on appropriate data-collection approaches that challenge orthodox survey/quantitative methods for detecting and assessing gender/age inequities to foster inclusive SAI.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1737356
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7725
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Gundula Fischerhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7658-786X
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1737356
    Research Themes
    Plant Production and Health
    IITA Subjects
    Agribusiness; Agronomy; Food Security; Gender
    Agrovoc Terms
    Sustainable Agriculture; Intensification; Gender; Youth; Malawi; Ghana
    Regions
    Africa; Southern Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Ghana; Malawi
    Hubs
    Eastern Africa Hub
    Journals
    International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
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