The politics of governing resilience: Gendered dimensions of climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationNorwegian University of Life Sciencesen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorSwedish Research Councilen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorFederal Ministry of Education and Research, Germanyen
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climate
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAnouk Brisebois: 0000-0003-3034-9273en
cg.creator.identifierSiri Eriksen: 0000-0002-6594-2758en
cg.creator.identifierTodd A Crane: 0000-0002-4395-7545en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.864292en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2624-9553en
cg.journalFrontiers in Climateen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriAGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.ilriCLIMATE CHANGEen
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen
cg.subject.ilriRESILIENCEen
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen
cg.volume4en
dc.contributor.authorBrisebois, Anouken
dc.contributor.authorEriksen, Siri H.en
dc.contributor.authorCrane, Todd A.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-21T08:55:38Zen
dc.date.available2022-12-21T08:55:38Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126160
dc.titleThe politics of governing resilience: Gendered dimensions of climate-smart agriculture in Kenyaen
dcterms.abstractThis paper uses climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Kenya as an empirical entry point for investigating how climate actions reshape or reinforce gender relations, and how they are aimed at improving local resilience that is nested in such relations. While enhancing national food security, CSA practices could however reproduce inequitable power relations, such as gendered authority relations that produce vulnerability and inequalities. Equity and knowledge represent particularly contested aspects of CSA because it largely fails to address who wins and who loses from such interventions, who are able to participate while others are excluded, and whose knowledge and perspectives count in decision-making processes. Gender relations provide a stark illustration of the way that CSA fails to address how enduring inequalities of access in both production and consumption shape who is rendered vulnerable to climate change and who is left food insecure. In this paper, we treat CSA projects as a site of tensions between stability and contestation of gender relations, brought into view through moments where practices and knowledges are (re)shaped. We first review the concepts of authority, recognition, and resilience as a framework to understand how gendered inequalities and struggles over rights to resources are perpetuated within adaptation and resilience responses to climate variability. We analyze evidence from past studies regarding rural adaptation processes and gender dimensions in CSA projects to identify how such projects may modify the space for renegotiating inequitable gender relations. We approach gender relations as authority relations that are constantly internalized, resisted, and contested through practices and interactions between different actors associated with CSA projects, and the different knowledges that direct these practices. The examination focuses on Kenya as an empirical context to gain sufficient depth in understanding the social and political processes in which climate actions and gender relations are nested, enabling us to identify key points of intersection within these two themes. In addition, gendered dimensions of rural resource governance and adaptation are relatively well-described in Kenya, providing lessons for how climate actions can become more gender-responsive.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-06-07en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBrisebois, A., Eriksen S.H. and Crane, T. 2022. The politics of governing resilience: Gendered dimensions of climate-smart agriculture in Kenya. Frontiers in Climateen
dcterms.issued2022-06-07en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiersen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen
dcterms.subjectgender equityen
dcterms.subjectkenyaen
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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