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Gender and socially inclusive WASH in Nepal: moving beyond “technical fixes” by Khadka, Manohara, Joshi, Deepa, Uprety, Labisha, Shrestha, Gitta

“…How do these two strategic shifts in policy align in the case of WASH projects in rural Nepal? Applying a feminist political lens, we review the implementation of WASH initiatives in two rural districts to show that deep-rooted intersectional complexities of caste, class, and gender prevent inclusive WASH outcomes. …”
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The men who feed the world? Putting masculinities on the agenda for crop breeding research for development by Arff Tarjem, Ida, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…In developing this hypothesis, we draw upon theoretical and empirical insights from masculinity studies in rural sociology, management and organization studies, and feminist technoscience studies. We demonstrate how critical men and masculinities studies can help expose masculinities in crop breeding to investigation, discussion, criticism, and change. …”
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The time-use agency scale: Development and validation of a measure for Ghana and beyond by Sinharoy, Sheela, Cheong, Yuk Fai, Heckert, Jessica, Seymour, Greg, Johnson, Erin R., Yount, Kathryn M.

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Decentralization and environmental conservation: gender effects from participation in joint forest management by Agrawal, Arun, Yadama, Gautam, Andrade, Raul, Bhattacharya, Ajoy

“…We also find that the “action effect” is more important than the “representation effect,” confirming some major arguments advanced by feminist environmentalists. Our statistical results are robust to different specifications and provide considerable empirical support for promoting women’s participation in community-based protection of natural resources.…”
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Exploring the landscape of gendered geospatial methods in agri-food systems: A scoping review by Rosenthal, A., Legros, S., Leong, S.V., Zannier, A., Sole, M.

“…This review applies a critical feminist lens to investigate what is missing in recent efforts to use GIS to study intersecting gender inequalities within agri-food systems, and how GIS technologies could be better employed to foster gender inclusion while enhancing women’s empowerment.…”
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Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa by Petesch, Patti, Bullock, Renee, Feldman, Shelley, Badstue, Lone B., Rietveld, Anne M., Bauchspies, Wenda, Kamanzi, Adelbertus, Tegbaru, Amare, Yila, Jummai Othniel

“…The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. …”
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Ramsar Convention and the wise use of wetlands: rethinking inclusion by Joshi, Deepa, Gallant, Bryce, Hakhu, Arunima, de Silva, Sanjiv, McDougall, C., Dubois, Mark, Arulingam, Indika

“…Reviewing the Convention obligations, resolutions, and guidelines through a feminist political ecology lens, we find them to be overtly simplistic and technocratic. …”
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Gendered implications of polluted drainage water use in agri-food value chains in Egypt: current context and practical recommendations by Joshi, Deepa, Dessouki, Amina, Abdelwahab, Noura

“…The focus of our study, which was funded by the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, was to understand the gendered implications of these changes and challenges. Adopting a feminist political ecology approach, we analyze the gendered power dynamics within productive, irrigated agriculture, focusing on the everyday lived experiences of diverse groups of women, farmers and irrigators.…”
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Innovations for equity: how to untap the gender-transformative potential of innovations in the agri-food sector by Basu, Sharmishtha, Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Khan, Suhela, Reddy, C.S., Burg, Margreet van der

“…In doing so, this panel session will link insights from project implementation to wider critical debates on the transformation of agri-food systems and the role of feminist development policy. Contributing organizations/panellists: GIZ (TBD); University of Wageningen (Margreet van der Burg); UN Women (Suhela Khan); CIP (Nozomi Kawarazuka, TBC) and OLAM (TBD).…”
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Addressing women’s invisibility in aquatic food systems; impact pathways towards gender and social equity by Adam, Rahma

“…Building on multiple participatory and feminist-ecological methods, we lay out a conceptual framework for aquatic food systems that stipulate five impact pathways that can be used to address gender and social equity in aquatic food systems in low- and middle-income countries across the globe.…”
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Exploring policy coherence to understand limited progress of gender and social inclusion in the energy sector: the case of Nepal by Buchy, Marlene, Shakya, Shristi

“…Using a policy coherence and feminist policy approach within an energy justice context, it traces the coherence of GESI policy through time and in relation to overall GESI policy objectives. …”
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Gender dynamics in agricultural value chain development: Foundations and gaps by Pyburn, Rhiannon, Kruijssen, Froukje

“…The authors call for embracing a feminist lens in studying and engaging in agricultural value chain development. …”
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Gender Transformative Methodologies CoP. Reimagining intersectionality: Institutionalization of a concept, its complexity, illusions and contradictions by Feldman, Shelley, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Bailey, Arwen

“…For many gender specialists, intersectional research represents one of the most important theoretical contributions of gender and feminist analyses. This is because such research acknowledges complexity and hierarchy, and division and difference among members of any identity category, including, but not limited, to women. …”
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Measuring how water‐related policies of the Global South consider gender: insights from trialling a new policy gender index in Nepal by Cuddy, S. M., Koirala, Sanju, Wahid, S., Penton, D. J.

“…By braiding the latest philosophies on gender mainstreaming with Integrated Water Resources Management and Feminist Policy Analysis principles, we describe a Multi‐Dimensional Index of Gender in Water Policy (MDI‐GWP) to measure how gender is captured in water‐related policy. …”
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Special issue: Restoration for whom, by whom? by Elias, Marlène, Joshi, Deepa, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…, we critically examine the social inclusivity of restoration agendas, policies, and practices as these unfold across ecological and geographic scales. We argue that feminist political ecology (FPE), with its focus on gendered power relations, scale integration, and historical awareness, and its critique of the commodification of nature, offers a valuable lens through which to examine the socio-political and economic dynamics of restoration. …”
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Designing for change through “reflecting and doing”: the CGIAR Community of Practice on Gender- Transformative Research Methodologies by López, Diana E., Bailey, Arwen, Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Rietveld, Anne, Gartaula, Hom Nath

“…Driven by an ethos of reflecting and doing anchored in critical and feminist principles and social learning praxis, the GTRM-CoP aims to be a safe space to spur reflexivity, creativity and collaboration to support existing work on gender transformation in CGIAR while re-imagining how gender in AR4D is conceptualized, negotiated and advanced. …”
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New ways to think Resilience Pathways by Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Rietveld, Anne M.

“…Five elements—gender norms, intersectionality, power and agency, personality and lifecycle—help to understand how women achieve resilience. 4) Building on participatory and feminist-ecological approaches, the Aquatic Food Initiative sets out five impact pathways to address gender and social equity in aquatic food systems.…”
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An Intersectional Approach to Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) by Tavenner, Katie, Crane, Todd A., Bullock, Renee, Galiè, Alessandra, Campos, Hugo, Katothya, Gerald

“…Originating nearly 40 years ago in black feminist thought, the concept of intersectionality has become established as an analytical lens and social theory to account for and better understand multiple and compounding identities and how they influence discrimination and privilege. …”
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Promoting gender equity in marine protected areas: A self-assessment tool by Bonilla Anariba, Sara, Sanders, Arie, Canty, Steven

“…The tool is centered on the Feminist Political Ecology approach, which central argument is that different genders experience the environment differently due to their divergent social and cultural roles. …”
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Scaling up of sweetpotato vine multiplication technologies in Phalombe and Chikwawa districts in Malawi: A gender analysis by Mudege, Netsayi N., Mwanga, Robert O.M., Mdege, N., Chevo, T., Abidin, P.E.

“…This paper adopts a feminist approach to analyse how processes of scaling up of technologies to promote adoption can reinforce or reduce gender inequalities. …”
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