Land, Gender, and Food Security

Doss, Cheryl R.; Summerfield, Gale; Tsikata, Dzodzi

doi:10.1080/13545701.2014.895021

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“…A particular focus has included the role of the African state and dominant social groups such as owners of capital, bureaucrats, chiefs and lineage heads (Amanor 2008;Lund 2008). Analysis has also focused on changes in customary law, and the erosion of communal property systems and kinship relations, as well as emerging class, gender and inter-generational inequalities (Daley and Pallas 2014;Doss, Summerfield, and Tsikata 2014;Tsikata and Yaro 2014;Verma 2014).…”

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Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

Hall¹,

Scoones

Tsikata

2017

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale, avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local economies depends on what farming model is pursued. In this Forum, we build on recent scholarship by discussing the key findings of our recent studies in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. We examined cases of three models of agricultural commercialisation, characterised by different sets of institutional arrangements that link land, labour and capital. The three models are: plantations or estates with on-farm processing; contract farming and outgrower schemes; and medium-scale commercial farming areas. Building on core debates in the critical agrarian studies literature, we identify commercial farming areas and contract farming as producing the most local economic linkages, and plantations/estates as producing more jobs, although these are of low quality and mostly casual. We point to the gender and generational dynamics emerging in the three models, which reflect the changing demand for family and wage labour. Models of agricultural commercialisation do not always deliver what is expected of them in part because local conditions play a critical role in the unfolding outcomes for land relations, labour regimes, livelihoods and local economies.

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Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

Hall¹,

Scoones

Tsikata

2017

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…Flex crops have become an important source of investment in the global South due to their triple use (Doss et al, 2014). In fact, two-thirds of the global land under lease for food and biofuel production concentrate in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Sudan, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Mozambique as the most important investment recipients (Behrman et al, 2012).…”

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“…Gender sensitive scholarship must also widen the possible array of grabbing actors-not only transnationals and governments, but also kin members and local elites (Doss et al, 2014).…”

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“…More research is needed on the whole process of land grabbing, including: 1) the gendered system of rights and responsibilities prior to land deals, containing what works better for women in terms of their strategies to assert land claims; 2) the differential impact of land grabbing on men and women depending on context and contract typologies; 3) men's and women´s perceptions and understandings in terms of gains and threats before, during and after the process. Research needs to be contextualized according to various cultural regions, since legal traditions and gender norms differ significantly from one place to another (Chu, 2011;Behrman et al, 2012;Doss et al, 2014).…”

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Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

García¹

2017

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Abstract:The expression "land grabbing" has been used to describe large scale land transactions in developing nations; buyers or contractors usually are governments or companies of industrialized nations. This paper addresses the extension, scale, purpose and novelty of land grabbing, as well as two major debates around this issue: the contribution of land transactions (if any) to rural development; the role of rural actors in the process. The paper focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Land grabbing in the region involves not only the production of "flex crops", but also "commodity grabs" and "green grabs".Mexico presents a very high concentration and foreignization of the agricultural chain value, which is expressed in various forms of contract agriculture. Current processes of land grabbing are different from others occurring in the past because they are a new way to respond to the multiple dimensions of the global crisis:financial, food, energy and climate. The paper concludes that more research is Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales Vol. 8 (44) needed on the impacts of land grabbing on rural communities, particularly from a differentiated and comparative approach capable of highlighting regional, class, age, and gender disparities.

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“…This study uses LSLA interchangeably with "land grabbing" not only in recognition of the fact that the debates on terminology are ongoing and contentious (see also Doss, Summerfield, & Tsikata, 2014) but also because of the processes involved and their impact on local communities. Even though both terminologies are used, land grabbing is a more accurate term for this study because of the shady nature of the land deals, and the company's inability to respect certain criteria for responsible land investment and good governance, for example, lack of proper social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA).…”

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Land Grabbing, Local Contestation, and the Struggle for Economic Gain

Ndi

2017

SAGE Open

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This article examines why peasant communities in South West Cameroon have contested a U.S.-based company's intentions to establish an agro-industrial palm oil plantation in their region. Land investments in the form of agro plantations, if not properly conceived, negotiated, and implemented, pose a series of threats to the ecological, cultural, and economic stability among peasant farming communities, who depend on land and forest resources for their livelihood. Using Nguti as a case study, this article argues that local communities do not oppose investment in land but they contest projects that attempt to alienate them from their sources of livelihood without providing alternatives. The study also demonstrates how local communities, despite being critical of the project, struggle with the company through their relations with government, to demand new social contracts and/or memoranda that could offer them greater opportunities as economic partners. The article concludes that for palm oil plantations to be economically equitable, local communities' incorporation is necessary to safeguard rural livelihoods and to ensure that provisions are made for adequate compensation and alternative sources of livelihood.Keywords large land acquisition, local contestation, incorporation, rural livelihoods, SW Cameroon 2 SAGE Open land-related rights and resources by corporate (business, non-profit, or public) entities for various uses (White, Borras, Hall, Scoones, & Wolford, 2012). These acquisitions are not necessarily about enormous tracts of land, or mega-projects, but can emerge from an amalgamation of smaller acquisitions that add up to a significant "grab" and that may displace existing land users and land uses.This study uses LSLA interchangeably with "land grabbing" not only in recognition of the fact that the debates on terminology are ongoing and contentious (see also Doss, Summerfield, & Tsikata, 2014) but also because of the processes involved and their impact on local communities. Even though both terminologies are used, land grabbing is a more accurate term for this study because of the shady nature of the land deals, and the company's inability to respect certain criteria for responsible land investment and good governance, for example, lack of proper social and environmental impact assessment (SEIA).Foreign land acquisition occurs through many different ways, and for different purposes, producing a variety of outcomes (Hall et al., 2015;Wolford, 2010). However, Lorenzo Cotula and others have argued that unequal power relations between foreign investors and national African governments lead to land deals that favor the investors (Cotula et al., 2014). Most of the time, the local gains do not materialize (Anseeuw, 2013;O'Brien, 2011). Critical literature identifies cases where the greatest impacts are felt by the poorest of the poor-those forest-dependent and pastoralist populations who are dispossessed and left without other options to farm or graze livestock (Cotula et al., 2014;De Schutter, 2012;Mope ...

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Land, Gender, and Food Security

Cited by 93 publications

References 34 publications

Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change

Land grabbing in Mexico: extent, scale, purpose and novelty

Land Grabbing, Local Contestation, and the Struggle for Economic Gain

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