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Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food - Insights from Ghana and Cambodia (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,074
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Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food - Insights from Ghana and Cambodia (Hardcover)

Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prugl, Dzodzi Tsikata, Joanna Bourke Martignoni

Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

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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.

General

Imprint: Taylor & Francis
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Release date: September 2022
First published: 2023
Editors: Christophe Gironde • Christophe Golay • Elisabeth Prugl • Dzodzi Tsikata • Joanna Bourke Martignoni
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-206376-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
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Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN: 1-03-206376-9
Barcode: 9781032063768

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