Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations: Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia

Citation:

Sachs, Carolyn E., ed. 2019. Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations: Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Abingdon: Routledge.

Author: Carolyn E. Sachs

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Summary:

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

In many regions of the world, agricultural transformations are occurring through increased commodification, new value-chains, technological innovations introduced by CGIAR and other development interventions, declining viability of small-holder agriculture livelihoods, male out-migration from rural areas, and climate change. This book addresses how these changes involve fluctuations in gendered labour and decision making on farms and in agriculture and, in many places, have resulted in the feminization of agriculture at a time of unprecedented climate change. Chapters uncover both how women successfully innovate and how they remain disadvantaged when compared to men in terms of access to land, labor, capital and markets that would enable them to succeed in agriculture. Building on case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book interrogates how new agricultural innovations from agricultural research, new technologies and value chains reshape gender relations.

Using new methodological approaches and intersectional analyses, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agriculture, gender, sustainable development and environmental studies more generally. (Summary from Routledge)

Table of Contents

1. Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

Carolyn Sachs

2. The Implications of Gender Relations for Modern Approaches to Crop Improvement and Plant Breeding

Jacqueline Ashby and Vivian Polar

3. Change in the Making: 1970s and 1980s Building Stones to Gender Integration in CGIAR Agricultural Research

Margreet van der Burg

4. How to Do Gender Research? Feminist Perspectives on Gender Research in Agriculture

Ann R. Tickamyer and Kathleen Sexsmith

5. Intersectionality at the Gender-Agriculture Nexus: Relational Life Histories and Additative Sex-Disaggregated Indices

Stephanie Leder and Carolyn Sachs

6. Diversity of Small-Scale Maize Farmers in the Western Highlands of Guatemala: Integrating Gender into Farm Typologies

Tania Carolina Camacho-Villa, Luis Barba-Escoto, Juan Burgueño-Ferreira, Ann Tickamyer, Leland Glenna, and Santiago López-Ridaura

7. "A Bird Locked in a Cage:" Hmong Young Women’s Lives After Marriage in Northern Vietnam

Nozomi Kawarazuka, Nguyen Thi Van Anh, Vu Xuan Thai and Pham Huu Thuong

8. Defeminizing Effect: How Improved Dairy Technology Adoption Affected Women's and Men's Time Allocation and Milk Income Share in Ethiopia

Birhanu Megersa Lenjiso

9. Implementing "Gender Equity" in Livestock Interventions: Caught between Patriarchy and Paternalism?

Katie Tavenner and Todd A. Crane

10. Implications of Agricultural Innovations on Gender Norms: Gender Approaches in Aquatic Agriculture in Bangladesh

Lemlem Aregu, Afrina Choudhury, Surendran Rajaratnam, Margreet van der Burg, and Cynthia McDougall

11. Permanently Seasonal Workers: Gendered Labor Relations and Working Conditions of Asparagus Agricultural Workers in Ica, Perú

María del Rosario Castro Bernardini

12. Gender Equality and Trees on Farms: Considerations for Implementation of Climate-Smart Agriculture

Tatiana Gumucio, Diksha Arora, Jennifer Twyman, Ann Tickamyer, and Monica Clavijo

13. Kinship Structures, Gender, and Groundnut Productivity in Malawi

Edward Bikketi, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Leif Jensen, and Edna Johnny

14. Changes in Participation of Women in Rice Value Chains: Implications for Control over Decision-Making

Sujata Ganguly, Leif Jensen, Samarendu Mohanty, Sugandha Munshi, Arindam Samaddar, Swati Nayak, and Prakashan Cehllattan Veettil

Topics: Class, Agriculture, Displacement & Migration, Environment, Climate Change, Ethnicity, Feminisms, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Livelihoods Regions: Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Americas, Central America, South America, Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Malawi, Peru, Vietnam

Year: 2019

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