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Gender and Plant Health has often been seen as a very unusual combination, since two disciplines have a different epistemological orientation, use different languages, and have limited experience in working together. Over the past two years, CGIAR Plant Health Initiative has made a progress to bring biophysical and social scientists together to address common research agenda. This presentation shares our experience with struggles and hopes; and explains how integrating gender can enrich research and interventions with greater impacts for equity and inclusivity. This seminar accommodates diverse audience including biophysical scientists who are not familiar with gender.
Nozomi Kawarazuka is a Social Scientist working at the International Potato Center, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her research draws on critical social theory and feminist political ecology to explore social power dynamics in the processes of climate adaptation and agricultural technology adoption. Currently, Kawarazuka works for CGIAR Asian Mega Deltas Initiative with a focus on understanding gendered experience in and responses to climate change.