Land to the Tiller? Gender Relations and Land Reforms

Jacobs, Susie

doi:10.1080/10289852.1997.10520132

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“…Thus, with few exceptions (see Jacobs, 1998) programmes are framed in a manner discriminatory towards women, particularly wives. [2] This feature sets the basis for other changes which tend to undermine areas of autonomy which may have existed pre-land reform (see Jacobs, 1997).…”

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Zimbabwe: Why Land Reform is a Gender Issue

Jacobs¹

2000

Sociological Research Online

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Zimbabwe: Why Land Reform is a Gender Issue

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2000

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“…Their point that land reforms in practice, depending -I would add -on the balance of political forces and its trajectories, do not help the rural poor (or poorest) is undoubtedly often valid (and the same criticism of Latin American land reforms made by GKI). This applies especially to existing structures and processes of patriarchy (in its various forms), the struggles they generate, and their effects for the benefits (if any) that women farmers, rural workers and 'worker-peasants' get from redistributive land reforms; see Jacobs (1997), Deere and León (2001) and Razavi (2003) among a large literature on this. 57 And however perverse, as well as opportunistic, the appropriation of that struggle in the 'anti-imperialist' discourse of the Mugabe regime, itself a typical example of what happens in the real worlds of politics.…”

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‘Changing Before Our Very Eyes’: Agrarian Questions and the Politics of Land in Capitalism Today

Bernstein

2003

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper endorses the criticisms of neo‐classical populism and its advocacy of redistributive land reform provided by other contributions to this special issue of the Journal, to which it adds several further points. If GKI propose a version of an agrarian question of ‘small’ or ‘family’ farming, and its resolution through a familiar (Chayanovian) path of development, much of the critique rests, in one way or another, on the ‘classic’ agrarian question in capitalist transition, in effect the agrarian question of capital in which the agrarian question of labour was once subsumed. Here the question is posed whether, in the conditions of contemporary ‘globalization’ and its tendency to the ‘fragmentation’ of labour, there might be a new agrarian question of labour, now detached from that of capital, and which generates a new politics of struggles over land (and its distribution). Even to conceive of this question is beyond the analytical and political field of vision of neo‐classical populism. Some of the dimensions of an agrarian question of labour are illustrated in a brief consideration of recent, and highly contradictory, events in Zimbabwe: a unique case of comprehensive, regime‐sanctioned, confiscatory land redistribution in the world today.

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“…Studies, even ones very critical of policies concerning class and gender, find living standards and food security are often improved by land reform (El-Ghonemy, 1990;Ghimire, 2001), despite the burden of more work. Improved food security alone may make land redistribution a positive experience (Jacobs, 1998).…”

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Land reform: still a goal worth pursuing for rural women?

Jacobs

2002

J of Intl Development

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Land reform has recently become a topic of interest to the media. Given historical experience and current changes, are land reform policies still worthwhile objects of struggle for rural women? The article discusses arguments 'against': for instance, women have been excluded from most past land reforms, and many rural people have had to diversify their livelihood bases, so that agriculture has diminished in importance. Despite these and other points, the article argues that land reform which includes women would be of great benefit: it would increase food security, would allow wives to keep better control over their own incomes, and would increase women's status more generally. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Land to the Tiller? Gender Relations and Land Reforms

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Zimbabwe: Why Land Reform is a Gender Issue

Zimbabwe: Why Land Reform is a Gender Issue

‘Changing Before Our Very Eyes’: Agrarian Questions and the Politics of Land in Capitalism Today

Land reform: still a goal worth pursuing for rural women?

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