“Women and youth” targets are commonly homogenized both in development discourse and in programmatic targeting. While this framing aims to recognize the customary inequities in agricultural development activities traditionally oriented toward elder men, the homogenization of these categories does not capture the intra-gender differences between these social groups. We explore the utility of intersectionality as an applied analytic concept in agricultural research for development to shed light on the heterogeneity of these social groups and the gender power relations that mediate farmer engagement with agriculture. Drawing on qualitative interview data from the Tanzanian dairy sector, this study applies intersectional analysis to explore how gender, generation, and marital status create power relationships that influence farmers’ positioning to engage in dairy production, institutions, and processes. We find that applying intersectionality helps us understand not only intersecting inequalities but also the fundamentally different experiences and power outcomes that occur at these intersections.

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超越“妇女和青年”：在农业研究促进发展中应用交叉性

“妇女和青年”目标在发展话语和计划目标中通常是同质化的。虽然这一框架旨在承认传统上面向老年男性的农业发展活动中的习惯不平等，但这些类别的同质化并未体现这些社会群体之间的性别差异。我们探索了交叉性作为农业发展研究中的应用分析概念的效用，以阐明这些社会群体的异质性以及调解农民参与农业的性别权力关系。本研究利用坦桑尼亚乳制品行业的定性访谈数据，应用交叉分析来探索性别、世代、和婚姻状况创造了影响农民参与乳制品生产、机构和流程的定位的权力关系。我们发现应用交叉性不仅可以帮助我们理解交叉的不平等，还可以帮助我们理解在这些交叉点上发生的根本不同的体验和权力结果。