{"id":17739,"date":"2026-06-20T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/her-research-on-norms-limiting-womens-resilience-to-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:58:59","slug":"her-research-on-norms-limiting-womens-resilience-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/her-research-on-norms-limiting-womens-resilience-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"HER+ research on norms limiting women\u2019s resilience to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the recently concluded 2023 Development Studies Association\u00a0(DSA) annual conference<\/a>, IITA<\/a> Post-Doctoral Fellow (Gender Research), Olajumoke Adeyeye<\/a>, presented some of the CGIAR<\/a> Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems<\/a> (HER+) Initiative preliminary findings on restrictive gender norms that limit women\u2019s capacities to building economic resilience to climate change (CC) challenges in Nigeria. The conference provides a platform to share the research outcome with experts and researchers on gender and development across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Olajumoke Adeyeye Presenting on ‘How gender norms constrain women’s economic resiience to climate change challenges in Nigeria’<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference, which took place at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, from 28 to 30 June, was themed \u201cCrisis in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Connection and Agency for Development.\u201d It was an opportunity for DSA members to gather again physically for the first time since 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference included a range of panel formats, including paper, roundtable, asynchronous and experimental panels such as debates and speed meetings. There was also the Global South Study Group meeting, DSA students\u2019 members\u2019 meetings, DSA study group meetings, and plenary sessions. The conference featured over eighty panels on cross-cutting issues covering development crises, agency, knowledge, and governance. There were over three hundred physical and online participants from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of HER+ Work Package 1\u2014TRANSFORM: Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) Reducing normative constraints that limit women\u2019s economic resilience to CC challenges\u2014the Initiative implements studies that assess normative constraints limiting women\u2019s capacities in building economic resilience to CC challenges. These studies were carried out among women and men operating at different nodes of the cassava, catfish\/fish, and chicken value chains in Nigeria and Tanzania. The study used Individual Interviews, Key Informants Interviews (KIIs), and Community-Level Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to collect data from Value Chain actors, including value chain service providers; community leaders; government representatives; regulatory bodies; and NGOs at different value chain nodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dr
Dr Olajumoke Adeyeye commencing her presentation at DSA 2023 Panel 78 themed ‘Culture and climate change in the anthropocene’<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adeyeye\u2019s presentation highlighted the main climate-related events affecting AFS actors across the three value chains in Nigeria and the impact of CC challenges on the performance and livelihoods of agrifood system (AFS) actors. The presentation also provided insights into the gender norms shaping women AFS actors\u2019 activities across the three value chains. Discriminatory gender norms identified include those that: restrict women\u2019s access and control of financial resources; restrict women\u2019s mobility; limit women\u2019s participation in leadership; discriminate women\u2019s adoption and use of technologies\/equipment and limit participation in value chain nodes\/activities that have high returns. Adeyeye also highlighted the different pathways through which the norms constrain women\u2019s capacity to build economic resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from the presentation, Adeyeye used the opportunity to network with globally recognized scientists working in gender and development from institutions worldwide. Through her interactions, she acquired more insight into gender-related topics and the latest gender trends from other scientists and researchers working on the nexus of climate change, gender norms, and building resilience in AFS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI will leverage the experience gained in this year\u2019s DSA conference to advance the implementation of the HER+ initiative,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributed by Daramola <\/em>Ochuwa Favour<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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