The gender implications of large-scale land deals

Behrman, Julia A.; Meinzen‐Dick, Ruth; Quisumbing, Agnes R.

doi:10.1080/03066150.2011.652621

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“…While there are ample studies demonstrating the disproportionate vulnerabilities to and impacts of climate change and related risks experienced by women, there is scarce empirical evidence showing how men and women, respectively, make decisions regarding new land use opportunities that enhance or reduce emissions (Behrman et al 2012). Questions that remain insufficiently answered include: 1) How do males and females differ in terms of their land use perspective?…”

Section: Gender Land Use and Redd+mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…It is therefore vital to study how matrilineal systems are changing in the face of agricultural industrialization, particularly given the pattern emerging in current research that suggests that women are more sensitive to the context of negotiation while men appear to be more responsive to pecuniary costs and benefits (Behrman et al 2012;Eckel et al 2008). …”

Section: Gendered Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Villamor

Amaruzaman

Noordwijk

2013

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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This study explores the role of gender as a factor in decision making about alternative land use options and in responses to new investment opportunities, which has received little attention to date. An observational study to determine the different factors affecting male and female decisions to change land use at the individual level in a forest margin landscape in Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia) was combined with a set of role playing games (RPGs) designed to assess participant responses in a simulated social setting of women-only and men-only groups. The RPG included simulated agents offering new opportunities to convert or conserve agroforest. In the study area, rubber (Hevea braziliensis) agroforests that support high biodiversity and carbon storage are giving way to monoculture rubber and oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations. When women from both the upland and lowland villages played the RPGs, external investors proposing logging or oil palm conversion were approached very positively and the resulting land use change was more dynamic and extensive than in the equivalent men-only groups. Consequently, women outperformed men in achieving income targets. In lowland areas gender is strongly associated with land use change, while in the uplands the level of conservation awareness plays a more crucial role in the maintenance of rubber agroforests. Based on the data, and contrary to expectations and gender stereotypes, it is expected that the greater involvement of women in landscape level decision making will increase emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the area, posing further challenges to efforts to reduce such emissions.

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Section: Gender Land Use and Redd+mentioning

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Section: Gendered Perceptionsmentioning

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Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Villamor

Amaruzaman

Noordwijk

2013

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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“…Thus far, an emerging literature around the gendered impacts of and responses to oil palm links with parallel debates on gender, land rights and large-scale land deals more generally (for example, Behrman, Meinzen-Dick, and Quisumbing 2012;Collins 2016;Daley and Pallas 2014;Archambault and Zoomers 2015). Writing specifically on oil palm investments, Julia and White (2012), Morgan (2013), Li (2015) and de Vos (2016) provide an explicit focus on gender impacts of and responses to oil palm companies in West Kalimantan, whilst Elmhirst and Darmastuti (2015) investigate the interplay between smallholder oil palm investments, emerging multilocal livelihood practices and migrant women's remittances in Lampung Province.…”

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Gender and generation in engagements with oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: insights from feminist political ecology

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Siscawati

Basnett

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The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Across many parts of Indonesia, investment in oil palm has brought accelerated forms of land acquisition and market engagement for communities, signalling far-reaching implications for equity and well-being of current and future generations. This paper uses a conjunctural feminist political ecology approach to explore gendered and generational engagements with oil palm in Indonesia. The paper compares four communities in East Kalimantan that form part of an ongoing study of the gendered impacts of large-scale and independent smallholder investments in oil palm in the context of corporate zero deforestation commitments in West and East Kalimantan. We show how different pathways of engagement with oil palm -adverse or otherwise -reflect the interplay between modes of incorporation into oil palm systems with landscape history, gender, life stage and ethnic identity. Whilst our findings complicate singular 'victim' narratives, they also challenge the 'cruel optimism' that is accompanying the current oil palm boom.

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“…Secure land tenure supports the economic and political autonomy that individuals and groups need to participate in democratic society. Human rights analysis must consider diverse groups through multiple stages of land deals from appraisal, to monitoring (Behrman et al 2012). The elderly, the disabled (ACHPR 18.4) and children require special attention (ACHPR 18.3; CRC 4, 6; Save the Children 2002).…”

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“…Some women found (rather poorly paid and uncertain) livelihoods in supplying food to workers. Such gendered effects with regard to land rights, land use, power, information, employment, and livelihoods confirm the importance of gender in transnational land deals (Daley 2011;Behrman et al 2012). In addition to the benefits probably being skewed to the disadvantage of women, right to gender equality was not actively protected and promoted.…”

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Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power

Wisborg

2013

J Agric Environ Ethics

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Large-scale transnational land acquisition of agricultural land in the global south by rich corporations or countries raises challenging normative questions. In this article, the author critically examines and advocates a human rights approach to these questions. Mutually reinforcing, policies, governance and practice promote equitable and secure land tenure that in turn, strengthens other human rights, such as to employment, livelihood and food. Human rights therefore provide standards for evaluating processes and outcomes of transnational land acquisitions and, thus, for determining whether they are ethically unacceptable land grabs. A variety of recent policy initiatives on the issue have evoked human rights, most centrally through the consultation and negotiation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests concluded in 2012. However, a case of transnational land appropriation illustrates weak host and investor state enforcement of human rights, leaving the parties to in interaction with local groups in charge of protecting human rights. Generally, we have so far seen limited direct application of human rights by states in their governance of transnational land acquisition. Normative responses to transnational land acquisitioncodes of conduct, principles of responsible agricultural investment or voluntary guidelines-do not in themselves secure necessary action and change. Applying human rights approaches one must therefore also analyze the material conditions, power relations and political processes that determine whether and how women and men can secure the human rights accountability of the corporations and governments that promote large-scale, transnational land acquisition in the global south.

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The gender implications of large-scale land deals

Abstract: Journal articleIFPRI3; ISI; CRP2; GRP42EPTD; PHND; PIMPRCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM

Cited by 173 publications

References 33 publications

Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Gender and generation in engagements with oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: insights from feminist political ecology

Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power

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