Social cultural and gender based constraints to adoption and diffusion - solutions and contexts

Social, cultural and gender-based constraints to adoption

Haven D. Ley Senior Program Officer, Agricultural Development

Contexts, solutions and what you can do to improve impact

September 1, 2012

Narrative arc

Resolution

Impact

Adoption Gender

Examples Solutions Action

Focus on the staple crops and livestock with the greatest impact on the poor

Focusing Our Strategy

Building on the previous work of others

Learning from our work to date

Input from experts, partners,

grantees, donors, farmers, and

critics

Our theory of how change occurs for farmers

Challenges to technology adoption

Focus on adoption has generated new thinking and methodological interests

§  Context matters more than ever §  Geographic §  Political §  Cultural

§  Centering the farmer §  Borrowing from good design processes

Global

Nation

Ecosystem

Community

Farm Family

Poor design may be a supply failure . . .

. . .but adoption can be simple if demand dictates

Going a layer deeper. . .

The resource gap between women and men farmers undermines adoption and agricultural impact

Ø  Women farmers have less access than men to productive assets

Ø  Closing this gender

gap could increase yields on their farms by 20–30%, and raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5–4%

Gender provides an important framework for understanding adoption challenges

§  Women, typically, have less access to the enablers of adoption: §  Land §  Credit §  Education or information §  Labor

§  Preferences in determining beneficial technologies are distinct

§  Women’s preferences are less likely to be taken on board in priority-setting and beta design §  Not considered farmers §  Political and time constraints §  Representation in R & D efforts

Note: The household economy complicates decisions about adoption

Who influences design and who adopts as a result?

Women’s technology preferences align with their household responsibilities

Good design processes can increase adoption

Solutions already at work upstream

§  Linking farmers into the innovation process

§  Training staff on participatory design methods

§  Conducting gender analysis of preferences and responsibilities prior to trait prioritization

§  Increasing women’s representation in priority setting

Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Award for early-career women wheat researchers

Our expectations for good design:

Ø  Analytical research:

Know her

Ø  Design measures: Design for her

Ø  Feedback and accountability: Be accountable to her

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