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Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food - Insights from Ghana and Cambodia (Hardcover)
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Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food - Insights from Ghana and Cambodia (Hardcover)
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.
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