Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: A Centre-Periphery Perspective

Wanmali, Sudhir; Islam, Yassir

doi:10.2307/3059722

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“…Conversely, we perceive soft infrastructure to support female-gendered care (or reproduction). Some scholars argue that, like Adam provided the means for Eve's creation, hard infrastructure provides the means for social infrastructure services delivery [43]. Others argue that care, a type of social infrastructure, is a prerequisite for production, here, sustaining the workers (and future workers) required to produce physical infrastructure [26].…”

Section: Infrastructure and Carementioning

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Understanding the Role of Public Transportation in Supporting the Care Economy in Washington, DC, USA

Passman,

O’Hara,

Plummer

2024

Sustainability

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Women’s empowerment is a powerful engine for personal and societal economic development and well-being. Nevertheless, gender biases in physical infrastructure investments lead to negative consequences for women and children that reduce their empowerment and limit their economic benefits. Public fixed-route buses, such as those in Washington, DC, illustrate how physical transportation infrastructure has innate gender biases. These young residents likely depend on strollers to travel longer than a few blocks. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) runs the public transportation system in Washington, DC. In 2021, 7% of DC’s 720,000 residents were under five. WMATA maintains a fleet of approximately 1595 buses, 95% of which banned the onboarding of open strollers until recently. This ban directly limited the use of Metro buses for the caregivers of young children, primarily women. It also reduced the opportunities for these caregivers to participate in DC’s economic life. In neighborhoods dependent on buses for essential mobility, the stroller ban reduces employment, healthcare, social service, educational, and recreational offerings beyond walkable distances. This paper examines the publicly available discussions and actions that led to the updated stroller policy and offers opportunities for improving caregiver transit access in Washington, DC, and, by extension, other cities worldwide.

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Section: Infrastructure and Carementioning

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Understanding the Role of Public Transportation in Supporting the Care Economy in Washington, DC, USA

Passman,

O’Hara,

Plummer

2024

Sustainability

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“…Second, in many LMICs, there is a severe lack of core infrastructure such as roads to farming areas (Acheampong et al, 2018) or irrigation (Ward, 2010). This lack of infrastructure imposes well-known risks for any agricultural investment (Wanmali and Islam, 1997), but benefits of existing road development programmes are often limited for smallholders or do not exist at all. Particularly troublesome are the outcomes of large-scale infrastructure projects that do not match the needs and aspirations of the local population (Greiner et al, 2021).…”

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Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case

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Starting from the observation that value chain research has informed much of agricultural development interventions in recent decades, this paper identifies five key challenges to current agricultural development policies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): access to finance, infrastructure, land tenure, local linkages and knowledge transfer. Based on this review, it is argued that recent theoretical advances in the global production network (GPN) approach can help to achieve a more holistic view of agricultural development policies than the more linear value chain research. In particular, three key concepts from the GPN approach are highlighted: mobilisation of regional assets, strategic coupling and territorial embeddedness. These key concepts are used to propose a framework called ‘insight-out strategic coupling for smallholder integration’, which builds on the concept of strategic coupling in GPN research and applies it as a development tool to agricultural production. Using an in-depth case study approach, the usefulness of this framework is tested by examining the experience of Malawi Mangoes, a company established to promote smallholder exports. Malawi Mangoes was initially funded by private equity, but despite a number of challenges along the way, was soon able to attract development funding and integrate smallholders from surrounding villages throughout-grower schemes. Analysis of the case shows both the usefulness of the framework and the lost potential in implementing agricultural development policy. The authors conclude that the framework is useful for linking current debates on agricultural development interventions, but that the findings of critical GPN research need to be taken into account when developing agricultural development interventions in order to respect the ‘do no harm’ principle.

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Urban-Rural Linkages in the Context of Decentralized Rural Development

Wanmali¹

2001

Villages in the Future

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Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: A Centre-Periphery Perspective

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Understanding the Role of Public Transportation in Supporting the Care Economy in Washington, DC, USA

Understanding the Role of Public Transportation in Supporting the Care Economy in Washington, DC, USA

Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case

Urban-Rural Linkages in the Context of Decentralized Rural Development

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