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Building a Gender-Transformative Extension and Advisory Facilitation System in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
  • Colverson, Kathleen Earl

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Rural advisory services operate in environments structured a priori by gender relations. Women often experience weaker access to productive resources and decision-making power within the household, lower and less effective participation in community-level decisionmaking bodies, in value chain networks, and in innovation platforms. They are less often reached by extension and advisory services. This can make it difficult for women to implement their ideas and to act on recommendations. What must change if women are to not only access, but work effectively with extension and advisory services? Tackling the underlying gender relations that hamper access and implementation is a priority. To achieve this, it is useful to think of the extension and advisory services as a facilitation system rather than a service and to reconfigure it accordingly. Existing “best bet practices” can be captured, integrated, and scaled out to build an empowering extension and advisory facilitation system.

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  • Farnworth, Cathy Rozel & Colverson, Kathleen Earl, 2015. "Building a Gender-Transformative Extension and Advisory Facilitation System in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security (Agri-Gender), Africa Centre for Gender, Social Research and Impact Assessment, vol. 1(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:afgend:246040
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.246040
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    1. Julien Lamontagne-Godwin & Peter Dorward & Naeem Aslam & Sarah Cardey, 2019. "Analysing Support towards Inclusive and Integrated Rural Advisory Systems," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(10), pages 1-18, October.
    2. Kassie, Menale & Fisher, Monica & Muricho, Geoffrey & Diiro, Gracious, 2020. "Women’s empowerment boosts the gains in dietary diversity from agricultural technology adoption in rural Kenya," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    3. Witinok-Huber, Rebecca & Radil, Steven M., 2021. "Introducing the Local Agricultural Potential Index: An approach to understand local agricultural extension impact for farmer adaptive capacity and gender equity," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 23(C).
    4. Lecoutere, Els & Spielman, David J. & Van Campenhout, Bjorn, 2023. "Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    5. Hudson, Heather E. & Leclair, Mark & Pelletier, Bernard & Sullivan, Bartholomew, 2017. "Using radio and interactive ICTs to improve food security among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(7), pages 670-684.
    6. Diiro, Gracious M. & Fisher, Monica & Kassie, Menale & Muriithi, Beatrice W. & Muricho, Geoffrey, 2021. "How does adoption of labor saving agricultural technologies affect intrahousehold resource allocations? The case of push-pull technology in Western Kenya," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C).

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