Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: a multiple environmentality analysis

Maguire‐Rajpaul, Victoria A.; Sandbrook, Chris; McDermott, Constance L.; Hirons, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.09.015

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“…This, in turn, skews research and policy attention towards quantifying the direct or proximate causes of land use change associated with large‐scale commodity supply chains. This belies how commodity expansion in one locale involving one set of actors is but one dimension of a broader landscape of socio‐environmental change, including the direct displacement of previous local land users, social relations and economies (Maguire‐Rajpaul et al, 2022) as well as indirect impacts on production and food security elsewhere through telecoupled market forces (Boillat et al, 2020; Corbera et al, 2019).…”

Section: What Does Equitable Transformation Mean For Land Use Governa...mentioning

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“…Under the CREMA system, communities are granted a limited set of traditionally and legally recognized rights to manage land and resources in common (Asare et al, 2013). It remains to be seen whether the involvement of CREMAs in governing cocoa landscapes can effectively counter‐balance the power of multi‐national companies and international demand for deforestation free cocoa with more participatory parity for local communities (Krauss & Barrientos, 2021; Maguire‐Rajpaul et al, 2022; Nasser et al, 2020).…”

Section: Rooted In Power: Five Vignettes Analyzing Contemporary Land‐...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark

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A confluence of concerns about tropical forest loss, global warming, and social inequality drive calls to transform land use governance. Yet there is widespread debate about what must be transformed, by whom, and how. The increasing equation of transformation with ambitious, quantitative global targets, such as "net zero emissions" or "zero deforestation" has gained widespread appeal as a means to inspire action and hold powerful actors to account. However presenting targets themselves as the end goals of transformation, obscures both the means of achieving them and the social and environmental values that legitimate them. The escalation of targets for land use, in particular, is disconnected from targeted geographies, lacks accountability to socially diverse knowledge and priorities, and is readily appropriated by powerful actors at multiple scales. This paper argues instead, for an equity-based approach to transformation that reveals how unequal power distorts both the ends and the means of global governance. We illustrate this argument with five case-study "vignettes" in Indonesia, Ghana, Peru, and Brazil that reveal how de-contextualized, target-based thinking has reinforced state and corporate control over resources at the expense of local access, while largely failing to deliver the promised environmental outcomes. We conclude that equity-focused, case study research is critical not only to unpack the local consequences of pursuing global targets, but also to make visible alternative efforts to achieve deeper socio-environmental transformations.

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“…Yet such schemes are on the rise. While some donors and development professionals seem to be losing faith in REDD+, carbon trading is reshuffled through 'landscape' approaches, integrated into large corporations' pledges of carbon neutrality (Galvin and Silva Garzón 2023), and into the promotion of negative emissions technologies (McElwee 2023), but also embedded in agricultural value chains for tropical products such as palm oil or cacao (Maguire-Rajpaul et al 2022). Moreover, carbon justifications are further stiffened by the material and ideological repertoire of biodiversity.…”

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Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

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Grajales

Jacobs

et al. 2023

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work of ending colonialism run square through questions of land. The classical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a new intensity. We look at four dimensions of the agrarian question today: urbanization and labor; care and social reproduction; financialization and global food systems; and social movements. On this 50th anniversary of JPS, we as the journal's editors invite more research, vigorous debate, and scholar-activism on these issues in agrarian politics and beyond. We move into the journal's next era hoping we might continue to better interpret the world in order to change it..

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“…Decolonizing the forest conservation intervention of CSC would require a reconfiguration of power away from principally an oligopoly of chocolate conglomerates from the Global North to instead including more smallholders' voices in the shaping of CSC policy and devolving management of natural resources to communities of smallholders (Maguire-Rajpaul et al, 2021). During fieldwork, smallholders recounted their own agro-ecological innovations that they enact to adapt to the changing climate and deforestation pressures, such as diversifying into other crops for income and improving soil fertility; producing organic fertilizers; nature-based solutions for pest and disease management, etc.…”

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Plotting the coloniality of conservation

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Journal of Political Ecology

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Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservation policies enacted in the Global South. It is only recently that critical scholars have begun to demonstrate how colonial legacies interact with market-based conservation policies in ways that increase their risk of failure, deepen on-the-ground inequalities and cement global injustices. In this article, we take further this emerging body of work by showing how contemporary,market-based conservation initiatives extend the temporalities and geographies of colonialism, undergird long-standing hegemonies and perpetuate exploitative power relations in the governing of nature-society relations, particularly in the Global South. Reflecting on ethnographic insights from six different field sites across countries of the Global South, we argue that decolonization is an important and necessary step in confronting some of the major weaknesses of contemporary conservation and the wider socio-ecological crisis itself. We conclude by briefly outlining what decolonizing conservation might entail.

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Climate-smart cocoa governance risks entrenching old hegemonies in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: a multiple environmentality analysis

Cited by 8 publications

References 185 publications

Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark

Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark

Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

Plotting the coloniality of conservation

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