Jummai Yila (International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Kampala, Uganda)
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Interests: Feminist political ecology & intersectionality: Examining how gender, class, ethnicity, age, and spatial location shape access to resources, decision-making power, and vulnerability in agrarian transitions.
Capability approach & agency: Operationalizing women's substantive agency, beyond participation.
Gender transformative approaches: Moving beyond "gender-responsive" to actively challenge restrictive norms.
Social practice theory: Understanding how gendered norms around work, land, and technology are reproduced, or disrupted, through everyday practices in farming communities.
Gendered dimensions of socio-ecological transitions.
Policy Translation & Evidence-to-Action Pathways, and
Participatory evidence generation: Co-designing qualitative/ethnographic research with women in marginalized livelihoods to surface grounded realities often missed in quantitative surveys
Regional Focus: Gender research and integration in agricultural development
JobTitle: Senior Scientist
Department: Gender and Livelihood Research
Country: Uganda
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