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Taylor and Francis Ltd Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Bourke-Martignoni, Joanna
This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.Agricultural commercialization, involving not only the shift to selling crops and buying inputs but also the commodification of land and labour, has always been controversial. Strategies for commercialization have often reinforced and exacerbated inequalities, been blind to gender differences and given rise to violations of the human rights to food, land, work and social security. While there is a body of evidence to trace these developments globally, impacts vary considerably in local contexts. This book systematically considers these dynamics in two countries, Cambodia and Ghana. Profoundly different in terms of their history and location, they provide the basis for fruitful comparisons because they both transitioned to democracy in the early 1990s, made agricultural development a priority, and adopted orthodox policies of commercialization to develop the sector. Chapters illustrate how commercialization processes are gendered, highlighting distinctive gender, ethnic and class dynamics in rural Ghana and Cambodia and the different outcomes these generate. They also show the ways in which food cultures are changing and the often-problematic impact of these changes on the safety and quality of food. Specific policies and legal norms are examined, with chapters addressing the development and implementation of frameworks on the right to food and land administration. Overall, the volume brings into relief multiple dimensions shaping the outcomes of processes of commercialization, including gender orders, food cultures, policy translation, national and sub-national policies, corporate investments and programmes, and formal and informal legal norms. In doing so, it offers insight not only on our case countries, but also provides proposals to advance rights-based research on food security. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food security, agricultural development and economics, gender, human rights and sustainable development. Introduction: Agriculture Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to FoodJoanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prugl, Fenneke Reysoo and Dzodzi TsikataSection I: Commercialized Livelihoods, Gender and Food Security Section Introduction: The Food Security and Right to Food Implications of Gendered Land and Agricultural CommercializationDzodzi Tsikata1. From Food-crop to Food-shop. Agricultural Commercialization, Food Security and Gender Relations in CambodiaChristophe Gironde, Andres Torrico Ramirez, Kim Thida and Amaury Peeters2. Gender, Agricultural Commercialization and Food Security in GhanaFred Dzanku and Dzodzi Tsikata3. Emerging rural food markets in Kampong Thom (Cambodia): right to food, gender and shifting food cultures Fenneke Reysoo4. Gender, Changing Food Cultures and Food Security in the Context of Agricultural Commercialization in GhanaPromise Eweh and Dzodzi TsikataSection II: Gender(ed) Policies for Food Security in a Commercializing WorldSection Introduction: Gender(ed) Policies for Food SecurityElisabeth Prugl5. Gender Mainstreaming in a Hybrid State: Entanglements of Patriarchy and Political Order in Cambodia's Food Security SectorSaba Joshi, Muy Seo Ngouv and Elisabeth Prugl 6. Minding the Gap in Agriculture and Food Security: Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Participation in Policy Processes in Ghana Martha A. Awo and Anna Antwi7. Agricultural Commercialization and Gender Mainstreaming in Decentralized Ghana: The Politics of BusinessDaniel Adu Ankrah, Dzodzi Tsikata and Fred DzankuSection III: Rights to Food, Land and Gender Equality in a Commercializing World Section Introduction: Rights to Food, Land and Gender EqualityJoanna Bourke Martignoni8. Feminist Legal Geographies of Land Titling, Indebtedness and Resistance in Rural CambodiaJoanna Bourke Martignoni and Saba Joshi9. Legal Pluralism, Gender Justice and Right to Food in Agrarian GhanaGertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Atudiwe P. Atupare10. Social Security in the Extractive State: Gender, Land Inheritance and Agrarian Change in Ratanakiri, CambodiaAlice Beban and Joanna Bourke Martignoni11. Constitution, Courts, Right to Food and Gender Equality in GhanaAtudiwe P. AtupareConclusion: From the Unequal Harvests of Commercialization to the Right to Food and Gender Equality: What Roles for Governments, Agribusinesses and Rural Communities?Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prugl and Dzodzi Tsikata