A positive deviance approach to understand gender relations and practices that support transformative adaptation: Insights from Kenya dairy households

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationLeibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Fund
cg.contributor.initiativeLivestock and Climate
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierRenee Bullock: 0000-0001-9561-0394
cg.creator.identifierTanaya Dutta Gupta: 0000-0001-5386-8223
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100280
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2666-0490
cg.journalCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainability
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriCLIMATE CHANGE
cg.subject.ilriGENDER
cg.subject.ilriLIVELIHOODS
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCK SYSTEMS
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.volume9
dc.contributor.authorBullock, Renee
dc.contributor.authorDuttaGupta, Tanaya
dc.contributor.authorMiriti, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-11T11:15:00Z
dc.date.available2025-02-11T11:15:00Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/172944
dc.titleA positive deviance approach to understand gender relations and practices that support transformative adaptation: Insights from Kenya dairy households
dcterms.abstractThe impacts of climate change on livelihoods and livestock systems in East Africa are significant. Efforts to bolster resilience will require a concerted focus on social equity to foster transformative adaptation. We integrate a feminist lens in a positive deviance approach to better understand gender relations in dairy producing communities in Kenya. We make theoretical and methodological contributions and suggest practical application to support locally led scaling approaches. Data was collected through 20 sex disaggregated focus group discussions (FGDs) and 10 key informant interviews (KII) with a total of 199 research participants. We focus on women's and men's participation in decision-making to assess gendered agency and labor in households, dairy specific activities, and the uptake of climate innovations. Evaluating these relations provides a better understanding of equity in dairy producing households who are at the forefront of climate adaptation. Women's and men's practices vary, and, through a positive deviance inquiry, we find the common patterns in those practices to characterize the referent group using thematic analyses. Our empirical findings demonstrate that referent group norms, relations and practices are, by and large, inequitable in agency and labor in dairy households underpinned by social norms. Positive deviant practices occur at differential rates in diverse geographies. We extended the concept of positive deviance to a relevant and urgent development agenda, transformative adaptation, that, to support resilience, must address root causes of vulnerability. We advocate for increased efforts to utilize positive deviance in future climate adaptation studies to inform practical and locally led strategies.
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIAR
dcterms.audienceDonors
dcterms.audienceScientists
dcterms.available2025-02-08
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBullock, R., DuttaGupta, T. and Miriti, P. 2025. A positive deviance approach to understand gender relations and practices that support transformative adaptation: Insights from Kenya dairy households. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 9:100280.
dcterms.extent100280
dcterms.issued2025-02-08
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevier
dcterms.subjectclimate change
dcterms.subjectdairying
dcterms.subjectgender
dcterms.subjecthouseholds
dcterms.subjectlivelihoods
dcterms.subjectlivestock
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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