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Gender and inclusion in the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE): an end of program reflection and evaluation by Joshi, Deepa, Braaten, Y., Hakhu, Arunima, Pradhan, Rubina, Gallant, Bryce

“…This was the focus of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) End of Program Reflection and Evaluation (EoPRE) to assess how gender and inclusion research is pursued, and the key barriers to knowing and doing gender in eight research projects. …”
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Integrating Social-Ecological and Political-Ecological Models of Agrobiodiversity With Nutrient Management of Keystone Food Spaces to Support SDG 2 by Zimmerer, Karl S., Jones, A.D., Haan, Stef de, Creed-Kanashiro, Hilary M., Tubbeh, Ramzi, Hultquist, C., Tello, M., Plasencia, F., Nguyen, Kien Tri

“…This key space furnished crucial food-nutrition and agroecological benefits that can be expanded by overcoming identified barriers. AKF-guided models incorporating key agrobiodiversity-and-food spaces and ecological nutrient management are needed to strengthen SDG 2 strategies.…”
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Gender Outcomes Harvesting in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security: A meta-analysis by Verzosa, Fatima, Gonsalves, Julian Francis, Barbon, Wilson John, Monville-Oro, Emilita

“…The report presents gender outcomes and insights from 69 reports conducted in these five countries with findings validated by studies done in other CSVs elsewhere, covering a range of women’s concerns that include an analysis of their gender roles are determinants or barriers to empowerment, gendered impacts of climate change, male migration, literacy, and the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Effectively targeting climate investments: A methodology for mapping climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots by Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo, Mishra, Avni, Lecoutere, Els, Puskur, Ranjitha, Chanana, Nitya, Singaraju, Niyati, Nico, Gianluigi, Khatri-Chhetri, Arun

“…Women are at a particular disadvantage, given their lower adaptive capacity due to unequal access to productive resources and services, driven by deeply entrenched social and gender norms and other structural barriers. However, addressing these gender gaps can enable women to use their knowledge and skill to contribute to climate-resilient agriculture. …”
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ADT: The automatic weather station data tool by Faniriantsoa, Rija, Dinku, Tufa

“…However, another major, under-discussed challenge confronting NMS is the disparities between the different station types provided by different donors that has given rise to barriers to pragmatically using the plethora of data collected by AWS in decision-making processes. …”
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Climate change adaptation options to inform planning of agriculture and food systems in The Gambia: A systematic approach for stocktaking by Segnon, Alcade C, Zougmoré, Robert B., Green, Rosemary, Ali, Zakari, Carr, Tony W, Houessionon, Prosper, M'boob, Sulayman, Scheelbeek, Pauline

“…The paucity of evidence from The Gambia and the highly contextual and differential impacts of the identified adaptation options underscore the importance of careful consideration of barriers and enablers when developing and deploying policy and interventions to sustainably increase productivity and income while building resilience to climate risks and reducing GHGs emissions. …”
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Increasing farmer participation in institutional innovative system: The case of dairy hub marketing in Kenya by Omondi, Immaculate A., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Bauer, S., Zander, K.K.

“…For efforts to improve and encourage sustainable intensification in smallholder dairy business though institutional innovative system (in this case, the “dairy hub marketing”) to yield fruits, clear understanding of barriers and opportunities is pertinent for targeting in order to increase intensification. …”
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Poverty dynamics and the determining factors among East African smallholder farmers by Hammond, James, Pagella, Tim, Caulfield, Mark E., Fraval, Simon, Teufel, Nils, Wichern, J., Kihoro, Esther, Herrero, Mario, Rosenstock, Todd S., Wijk, Mark T. van

“…Rapid economic development in East Africa is matched by extremely dynamic smallholder livelihoods.To quantify the changes in poverty of smallholder farmers, to evaluate the potential of farm and off-farm activities to alleviate poverty, and to evaluate the potential barriers to poverty alleviation.The analyses were based on a panel survey of 600 households undertaken in 2012 and re-visited approximately four years later in four sites in East Africa. …”
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Case studies of success stories in Kenya’s agribusiness sector by Gatonye, Margaret, Adam, Rahma

“…Most importantly, how CGIAR research centers can understand the different roles of women, men, and youth in agribusiness; highlight the constraints, barriers, and opportunities along the value chain; and exemplify the experiences and successes of seven agribusiness producers. …”
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Microbial contamination and antibiotic resistance in marketed food in Bangladesh: Current situation and possible improvements by Samad, M.A., Eberson, L., Begum, R., Alam, M.G.S., Talukdar, F., Akter, R., Sinh Dang-Xuan, Sharma, Garima, Islam, S., Siddiky, N.A., Uddin, A.S.M.A., Mahmud, M.A., Sarker, M.S., Rahman, M.S., Grace, Delia, Lindahl, Johanna F.

“…This study investigated bacterial contamination and the AMR profile of pathogens in marketed food in Bangladesh and explored barriers to reducing AMR in the country. We collected 366 tomatoes, 359 chicken and 249 fish samples from 732 vendors in traditional markets in urban, peri-urban and rural areas in Bangladesh, as well as from 121 modern retails in Dhaka capital to analyse Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli in fish, Salmonella in chicken, and Salmonella and E. coli in tomatoes. …”
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Socio-economic determinants for the deployment of Climate-Smart One-Health innovations. A meta-analysis approach prioritizing Ghana and Benin by Sekabira, H., Tepa-Yotto, G., Tamò, Manuele, Djouaka, R.F., Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Damba, O.T., Yeboah, S., Obeng, F., Asare, R., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Nazziwa, L.

“…On the other hand, behavior incompatibility with innovations, policy failure to restrict the use of toxic substances in agriculture, poor community knowledge of CS One-Health innovations, and language barriers between communities and innovators, hindered such deployment. …”
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Public-private partnerships for the circular bio-economy in the Global South: lessons learned by Taron, Avinandan, Majumder, A., Bodach, Susanne, Agbefu, Dzifa

“…The review indicates three key barriers to success: (i) waste-related bottlenecks, (ii) limited awareness about RRR products and their market(ing), and (iii) lack of proper institutional frameworks. …”
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Thematic evidencing of youth-empowering interventions in livestock production systems in Sub-Sahara Africa: A systematic review by Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh, Kamunye, Kelvin, Ageyo, Collins Odhiambo

“…The findings show that youth face significant barriers to participating in livestock systems ranging from limited empowerment, limited access to productive assets and land, social-cultural limitations and inadequate youth-focused policy implementation. …”
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Information exchange patterns and technology adoption behavior of cattle farmers in the Colombian Amazon by Lienert, Anja, Lippert, Christian, Burkart, Stefan

“…While several studies have analysed the cattle sector in Caquetá and have identified key adoption barriers, such as poor access to finance, inputs, technical assistance, and knowledge, the importance of interconnections, and information exchange between different actor groups in facilitating innovation diffusion, has received only marginal attention. …”
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Where women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: A methodology for mapping climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspots by Lecoutere, Els, Mishra, Avni, Singaraju, Niyati, Koo, Jawoo, Azzarri, Carlo, Chanana, Nitya, Nico, Gianluigi, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…The climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspot maps show where women involved in agri-food systems are at high climate risk while signaling that reducing this risk requires addressing the structural barriers to gender equality.…”
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Rural water supply systems in Nepal: factors affecting equitable access to water by Raut, M., Rajouria, Alok

“…Based on data from the case study sites—Ward No. 8, Gurans Rural Municipality, Dailekh district and Ward No. 6, Chandranagar Rural Municipality, Sarlahi district—we conclude that changing socio-economic contexts, prevailing social norms and practices, and premature and frequent infrastructure breakdown are barriers to fair and equitable access to water, and that local governments’ enhanced authority is a new opportunity.…”
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Integrated agriculture and aquaculture (IAA) system, livestock breeds and improved feeding as prioritized innovations for reducing emissions in Kenya’s food systems: Assessing scal... by Ochenje, Ibrahim, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia

“…The framework considers the following steps to transition to a low-emission food system: (1) prioritize technologies and regions; (2) assess the governance models and institutional drivers of emission change; (3) assess the adoption potential of technologies and institutional innovations; (4) develop strategies to overcome the barriers to adoption; (5) design business models to scale technologies; (6) measure climate action and development of co-benefits. …”
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A conceptual framework of living labs for people for sustainable food systems by Habermann, Birgit, Nehring, Ryan, Zhang, Wei, Hettiarachchi, Upeksha, Leñero, Eva Marina-Valencia, Falk, Thomas, Rietveld, Anne M., Woltering, Lennart, Kumar, Praveen, Wang, Xinxin, Zhou, Yunyi, Chen, Kevin Z., Pham, Thuy Thu, Rodríguez, Luz Ángela, Venegas, Martha

“…Innovation spaces are often dominated by linear, top-down approaches, with the transfer of technology being seen as the solution to many problems rather than trying to understand which innovation processes people are engaging with themselves. In other words, barriers to progress are typically viewed as issues of technology adoption, not as part of the innovation process itself. …”
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Failure to scale in digital agronomy: An analysis of site-specific nutrient management decision-support tools in developing countries by Sida, Tesfaye Shiferaw, Gameda, Samuel, Chamberlin, Jordan, Andersson, Jens A., Getnet, Mezegebu, Woltering, Lennart, Craufurd, Peter Q.

“…We find a similar decrease in odds ratios when technical, socioeconomic, policy, and R&D constraints were identified as barriers to scaling by national extension and private systems. …”
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Reviving smallholder hill farming by involving rural youth in food system transformation and promoting community-based agri-ecotourism: A case of Uttarakhand State in North-Western... by Rana, Jai Chand, Bisht, Ishwari Singh

“…There are opportunities to explore and barriers to be removed. Besides identifying priority research areas on local food systems, in this exploratory research, we investigate opportunities to involve rural young people in the transformation of the food system. …”
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