Livestock innovations, social norms, and women’s empowerment in the Global South

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.crpWheat
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.crpDryland Cereals
cg.contributor.crpDryland Systems
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeSustainable Animal Productivity
cg.coverage.countryAfghanistan
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.countryMexico
cg.coverage.countryMorocco
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.countryZimbabwe
cg.coverage.countryNepal
cg.coverage.countryPakistan
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryUzbekistan
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
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cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionCentral Asia
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionLatin America
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionCentral America
cg.creator.identifierAlessandra Galiè: 0000-0001-9868-7733en
cg.creator.identifierDina Najjar: 0000-0001-9156-7691en
cg.creator.identifierPatti Petesch: 0000-0001-6444-9032en
cg.creator.identifierLone Badstue: 0000-0001-8848-7498en
cg.creator.identifierFarnworth, C.R.: 0000-0002-2263-865Xen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su14073741en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2071-1050en
cg.issue7en
cg.journalSustainabilityen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen
cg.subject.ilriLIVELIHOODSen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriRESEARCHen
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen
cg.volume14en
dc.contributor.authorGaliè, Alessandraen
dc.contributor.authorNajjar, Dinaen
dc.contributor.authorPetesch, Pattien
dc.contributor.authorBadstue, Lone B.en
dc.contributor.authorFarnworth, Cathy Rozelen
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T08:22:12Zen
dc.date.available2021-12-24T08:22:12Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/117224
dc.titleLivestock innovations, social norms, and women’s empowerment in the Global Southen
dcterms.abstractLivestock have strong empowerment potential, particularly for women. They offer millions of women in the Global South the opportunity to provide protein-rich foods for home consumption and sale. Livestock provide women with income and opportunities to expand their livelihood portfolios and can strengthen women’s decision-making power. Fully realizing livestock’s empowerment potential for women is necessary for sustainable livestock development. It requires, though, that gender-equitable dynamics and norms are supported in rural communities. We draw on 73 village cases from 13 countries to explore women’s experiences with livestock-based livelihoods and technological innovations. Our analysis follows a gender empowerment framework comprised of four interdependent domains—recognition of women as livestock keepers, access to resources, access to opportunities, and decision making as a cross-cutting domain—which must come together if women are to become empowered through livestock. We find improved livestock breeds and associated innovations, such as fodder choppers or training, to provide significant benefits to women who can access these. This, nonetheless, has accentuated women’s double burdens. Another challenge is that even as women may be recognized in their community as livestock keepers, this recognition is much less common among external institutions. We present a case where this institutional recognition is forthcoming and illuminate the synergetic and empowering pathways unleashed by this as well as the barriers that remain.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-03-22en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGaliè, A., Najjar, D., Petesch, P., Badstue, L. and Farnworth, C.R. 2022. Livestock innovations, social norms, and women’s empowerment in the Global South. Sustainability 14(7): 3741en
dcterms.issued2022-03-22en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPIen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectempowermenten
dcterms.subjectinnovationen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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