Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool
Climate variability and agricultural soil degradation continue to leave smallholder farmers vulnerable to low yields and food insecurity. While sustainable climate-smart farming practices, such as Conservation Agriculture (CA), are recognized for their potential to enhance productivity, their adopti...
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International Water Management Institute
2025
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| author | Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah |
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| description | Climate variability and agricultural soil degradation continue to leave smallholder farmers vulnerable to low yields and food insecurity. While sustainable climate-smart farming practices, such as Conservation Agriculture (CA), are recognized for their potential to enhance productivity, their adoption is often hampered by socio-cultural barriers. Specifically, women and youth face limitations in resource access and ownership, agency, decision-making power, and participation in agricultural planning. The Gender Action Learning System (GALS) addresses this gap. GALS is a transformative, community-led empowerment methodology that uses principles of inclusion to improve the income, food, and nutrition security of vulnerable people in a gender-equitable way. This strategic approach builds a connection between formal and informal institutions to transform existing exclusionary practices. Structured into four main components, the GALS tool provides the conceptual foundation for operationalizing key challenges related to participation, equitable distribution of resources, voice, and agency—all crucial for the adoption and scaling of innovations while creating safe spaces for decision-making at the household and community level. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1785112025-12-04T02:15:59Z Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah gender climate-smart agriculture innovation Climate variability and agricultural soil degradation continue to leave smallholder farmers vulnerable to low yields and food insecurity. While sustainable climate-smart farming practices, such as Conservation Agriculture (CA), are recognized for their potential to enhance productivity, their adoption is often hampered by socio-cultural barriers. Specifically, women and youth face limitations in resource access and ownership, agency, decision-making power, and participation in agricultural planning. The Gender Action Learning System (GALS) addresses this gap. GALS is a transformative, community-led empowerment methodology that uses principles of inclusion to improve the income, food, and nutrition security of vulnerable people in a gender-equitable way. This strategic approach builds a connection between formal and informal institutions to transform existing exclusionary practices. Structured into four main components, the GALS tool provides the conceptual foundation for operationalizing key challenges related to participation, equitable distribution of resources, voice, and agency—all crucial for the adoption and scaling of innovations while creating safe spaces for decision-making at the household and community level. 2025-12 2025-12-03T20:24:25Z 2025-12-03T20:24:25Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178511 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Enokenwa Baa, O. 2025. Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool. Enabling Environment Success and Failure Stories. Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, and CGIAR Scaling for Impact program. |
| spellingShingle | gender climate-smart agriculture innovation Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool |
| title | Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool |
| title_full | Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool |
| title_fullStr | Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool |
| title_short | Scaling climate-smart innovations using the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) Tool |
| title_sort | scaling climate smart innovations using the gender action learning system gals tool |
| topic | gender climate-smart agriculture innovation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178511 |
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