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Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

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Prapti Barooah is a Senior Research Analyst with the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She is an economics and development studies graduate, with research experience across South and Southeast Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Lao PDR). She has worked on studies across diverse development domains including agriculture, nutrition, rural livelihood, social protection, and empowerment.

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Impact of participatory video-based extension and posters on awareness, knowledge, and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Insights from women farmers in Gujarat, India

2023Barooah, Prapti; Alvi, Muzna; Ringler, Claudia
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Impact of participatory video-based extension and posters on awareness, knowledge, and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Insights from women farmers in Gujarat, India

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is critical for reducing smallholder farmers’ vulnerability and enhancing their capacity to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change. Constraints to information and extension access — especially among women farmers, who play a vital role in Indian agriculture — are increasingly acknowledged as a barrier for widespread adoption of CSA practices. This note summarizes results from a study implemented among smallholder women farmers in rural Gujarat, India, to assess the effectiveness of a participatory video and poster extension intervention on increasing awareness, knowledge, and adoption of CSA practices. The findings sug gest that videos and posters are a viable information delivery mechanism for promoting awareness around CSA practices but should be supplemented with additional capacity development, access to financial resources, and labor-sharing arrangements.

Year published

2023

Authors

Barooah, Prapti; Alvi, Muzna; Ringler, Claudia

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Barooah, Prapti; Alvi, Muzna; and Ringler, Claudia. 2023. Impact of participatory video-based extension and posters on awareness, knowledge, and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Insights from women farmers in Gujarat, India. Reaching Women Farmers With CSA Policy Note 8. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137022

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India

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Southern Asia; Asia; Extension Programmes; Smallholders; Access to Information; Climate Change; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137022 Source record

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Gender, agriculture policies, and climate-smart agriculture in India

2023Barooah, Prapti; Alvi, Muzna; Ringler, Claudia; Pathak, Vishal
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Gender, agriculture policies, and climate-smart agriculture in India

CONTEXT India’s agricultural systems are increasingly affected by climate change’s adverse effects. The Government of India has an impressive set of programs to address this issue, but they have substantial shortcomings, especially in reaching women farmers. OBJECTIVE We aim to understand policy and implementation gaps in reaching women farmers with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices and study how women and men farmer’s different roles in agriculture shape their needs and access to complementary services needed to adapt to climate change. METHODS An extensive review of India’s agriculture and climate policies and program and a series of focus group discussions with farmers in Gujarat, India to discuss constraints and potential entry points for better reaching women farmers with CSA practices. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Women’s increased vulnerability to climate change and reduced access to CSA practices can be attributed to limited land ownership, poor access to credit, reduced access to information and formal extension, and multiple pressures on their time. Village cooperatives and self-help groups can be leveraged to support women’s access to agricultural information and adoption of CSA practices. SIGNIFICANCE This paper highlights constraints to information and extension access by Indian women farmers that could impede the widespread adoption of CSA practices. It fills an important knowledge gap in designing gender-responsive policies and inclusive agricultural extension systems to promote adoption of CSA practices among smallholder farmers.

Year published

2023

Authors

Barooah, Prapti; Alvi, Muzna; Ringler, Claudia; Pathak, Vishal

Citation

Barooah, Prapti; Alvi, Muzna; Ringler, Claudia; and Pathak, Vishal. 2023. Gender, agriculture policies, and climate-smart agriculture in India. Agricultural Systems 212(December 2023): 103751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103751

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India

Keywords

Asia; Southern Asia; Agriculture; Climate Change; Climate-smart Agriculture; Farming Systems; Gender; Women; Women Farmers; Vulnerability

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103751 Source record

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Agroecology

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Journal Article

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Gendered information channels for climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from India, Kenya, and Uganda

2023Welk, Lukas; Barooah, Prapti; Kato, Edward; Ndegwa, Michael K.
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Gendered information channels for climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from India, Kenya, and Uganda

Lack of access to information is an important barrier affecting women farmers’ adoption of climate-smart agri culture (CSA) practices and technologies. To overcome this barrier, the use of information and communication technologies is increasingly being promoted. However, digital tools might widen, rather than reduce, gendered information gaps given women’s lower use of mobile phones and mobile Internet as compared to men in sub Saharan African and South Asia. This policy note summarizes data on information channels that women and men farmers use for CSA practices in Gujarat, India, parts of Kenya, and central Uganda. The results can be used by governments, nongovernmental organizations, and other actor groups interested in ensuring equity in access to information on CSA practices in low- and middle-income countries.

Year published

2023

Authors

Welk, Lukas; Barooah, Prapti; Kato, Edward; Ndegwa, Michael K.

Citation

Welk, Lukas; Barooah, Prapti; Kato, Edward; and Ndegwa, Michael. 2023. Gendered information channels for climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from India, Kenya, and Uganda. Reaching Women Farmers With CSA Policy Note 5. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136966

Country/Region

India; Kenya; Uganda

Keywords

Southern Asia; Asia; Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Gender; Farmers; Information and Communication Technologies; Access to Information; Climate-smart Agriculture; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136966 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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