Abstract Tempered radicals are change agents who experience the dominant culture as a violation of the integrity and authenticity of their personal values and beliefs. They seek to move forward whilst challenging the status quo. Does the concept provide a useful analytic lens through which the strategies of women and men farmer innovators, who are ‘doing things differently’ in agriculture, can be interpreted? What are their strategies for turning ambivalence and tension to their advantage? The paper uses research data derived from two wheat-growing communities in Oromia Region, Ethiopia, an area characterized by generally restrictive gendered norms and a technology transfer extension system. The findings demonstrate that women and men innovators actively interrogate and contest gender norms and extension narratives. Whilst both women and men innovators face considerable challenges, women, in particular, are precariously located ‘outsiders within,’ negotiating carefully between norm and sanction. Although the findings are drawn from a small sample, they have implications for interventions aiming to support agricultural innovation processes which support women’s, as well as men’s, innovatory practice. The framework facilitates a useful understanding of how farmer innovators operate and in particular, significant differences in how women and men interrogate, negotiate and align themselves with competing narratives.

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埃塞俄比亚奥罗米亚地区的性别与农业创新：从创新者到温和激进

摘要 脾气暴躁的激进分子是变革推动者，他们将主导文化视为对其个人价值观和信仰的完整性和真实性的侵犯。他们在挑战现状的同时寻求前进。这个概念是否提供了一个有用的分析视角，通过它可以解释在农业中“以不同方式做事”的女性和男性农民创新者的策略？他们将矛盾和紧张转化为优势的策略是什么？该论文使用了来自埃塞俄比亚奥罗米亚地区两个小麦种植社区的研究数据，该地区的特点是普遍限制性别规范和技术转让推广系统。调查结果表明，女性和男性创新者积极地质疑和质疑性别规范和扩展叙事。虽然女性和男性创新者都面临着相当大的挑战，但女性尤其处于不稳定的“局外人”地位，在规范和制裁之间谨慎谈判。尽管调查结果来自小样本，但它们对旨在支持支持女性和男性创新实践的农业创新过程的干预措施具有影响。该框架促进了对农民创新者如何运作的有用理解，特别是女性和男性如何审问、谈判和与竞争性叙述保持一致的显着差异。它们对旨在支持支持女性和男性创新实践的农业创新过程的干预措施具有影响。该框架促进了对农民创新者如何运作的有用理解，特别是女性和男性如何审问、谈判和与竞争性叙述保持一致的显着差异。它们对旨在支持支持女性和男性创新实践的农业创新过程的干预措施具有影响。该框架促进了对农民创新者如何运作的有用理解，特别是女性和男性如何审问、谈判和与竞争性叙述保持一致的显着差异。