You must have people to make business: Relations of proximity in small-scale trade in Haiti and the DRC

Evangelista, Felipe; Vieira, Rosa Maria

doi:10.1590/1809-43412020v17d502

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“…37 Women's long associations with trading and selling produce might have influenced contemporary understandings in Haiti, where men selling produce may be perceived as 'shameful' intrusions. 38 Today, market women, or machann, have a socio-economic hierarchy, ranging from ti machann (small market women), who travel by foot from isolated, often mountainous areas to sell a narrower range of cheaper products in less desirable market locations, to the higher status Madan Sera, who use their more substantial resources to travel greater distances and purchase and sell bulk goods. 39 Madan Sera have long been the 'backbone' of Haiti's local crop marketing system.…”

Section: Women Agriculture and Peanutsmentioning

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Let Them Eat Peanut Butter! Understanding Obstacles to Women's Embodied Sovereignty Through Peanut‐Based Agriculture and Aid in Haiti

Jenkins¹

2022

Gender & History

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How did Haiti, where peanuts were once a staple crop often grown, traded, processed and shared by women, reach its contemporary food crisis, when some mothers must feed their children a diet of donated peanut-based nutritional supplements to keep them alive? Case studies of peanuts as food aid in Haiti reveal the ways neoliberalism and disaster capitalism stymie women's embodied sovereignty. This article uses the concept of embodied sovereignty to build on food sovereignty literature, enabling a sharper focus on the bodies that produce, process, feed and eat food, as well as the historical production of gendered food responsibilities, and the life-and-death stakes of sovereign power.

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Section: Women Agriculture and Peanutsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Let Them Eat Peanut Butter! Understanding Obstacles to Women's Embodied Sovereignty Through Peanut‐Based Agriculture and Aid in Haiti

Jenkins¹

2022

Gender & History

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Peacekeepers and Local Women and Girls: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Analysis of Local Perspectives from Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Vahedi,

Lee,

Etienne

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International Peacekeeping

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Admission of Democratic Republic of Congo (Drc) in the East African Community (Eac): Are There Opportunities for Kenya?

Moses

2022

RS Global - IJITSS

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Many countries across the globe are adopting regional economic integration as a strategy towards speeding economic growth and development. Through these integrations, there has been a surge in regional economic blocks, which have served to expand the market for many countries and open others to more robust trading activities and international business. East African Community has also been expanding its membership from three-member states to seven member states. This expansion has been aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the integration and making the community more comprehensive for the benefit of member countries. The inclusion of Democratic Republic of Congo as the seventh member country was recently concluded, and this has been viewed in varied dimensions. However, there has been a debate on whether the inclusion of DRC will enhance the benefits by the member countries or not. This paper, therefore, sought to establish the opportunities for international business that the EAC member countries are likely to gain out of the inclusion of DRC. The study singled out Kenya, as the largest economy in the community and at the centre of the admission of DRC into the EAC. An empirical approach was adopted where key reports, existing literature and reviews have been reviewed to come up with the findings and discussions. The results have portrayed that the inclusion of DRC into the EAC increases the community’s market by over 89 million consumers while opening the EAC to the Pacific Ocean. Kenyan multinationals have also been steadfast in investing in DRC upon admission of the country into DRC. The results have shown that while regional economic integration may come up with a share of problems from member countries, especially unstable countries, it also opens opportunities for established economies to invest in such economies for continued economic growth and development. It is recommended that both DRC and Kenyan governments lays out more trade facilitation policies and strategies in order to encourage international trade between the two countries and across the EAC region.

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You must have people to make business: Relations of proximity in small-scale trade in Haiti and the DRC

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Let Them Eat Peanut Butter! Understanding Obstacles to Women's Embodied Sovereignty Through Peanut‐Based Agriculture and Aid in Haiti

Let Them Eat Peanut Butter! Understanding Obstacles to Women's Embodied Sovereignty Through Peanut‐Based Agriculture and Aid in Haiti

Peacekeepers and Local Women and Girls: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Analysis of Local Perspectives from Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Admission of Democratic Republic of Congo (Drc) in the East African Community (Eac): Are There Opportunities for Kenya?

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