Wrestling with race and colonialism in Caribbean agriculture: Toward a (food) sovereign and (gender) just future

Barry, Tessa; Gahman, Levi; Greenidge, Adaeze; Mohamed, Atiyah

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.12.018

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“…With an overabundance of low-cost, high energy dense manufactured foods and an adoption of a Western oriented diet, it is not surprising that there is an upward shift towards the production of foods that are high in fats and calories and low in fibre, vitamins, and minerals [46, 47]. The country’s import policies and high food importation bills are indicative of its colonial legacy and intrigue for imported foods which are perceived to be of a superior quality, cheaper, and trendier than locally produced foods and a symbol of one’s social status [48, 49]. Consequently, this resulted in the morphing of an environment characterized by a proliferation of cheap foods with low nutritional value, while more appropriate, healthier options for those with diabetes are high in cost [24].…”

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Keeping on target during a low-calorie diet: The experiences of participants in a type 2 diabetes reversal pilot

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Guell

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Rapid weight loss using a very low-calorie diet (VLCD) for 2 to 3 months followed by weight maintenance has been shown to lead to the restoration of normal glucose and insulin metabolism in people recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. We explored the barriers and facilitators of adhering to a VLCD for remission in an Afro-Caribbean population. Twenty-five participants completed an eight-week VLCD followed by a six-month structured weight maintenance phase. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were thematically analysed. Cravings for ‘usual foods’ consumed by friends and family, stigma of diabetes and resulting lack of disclosure and the participants’ busy schedules were noted as predominant challenges throughout the study. In turn, social support and the participants’ internal drive were considered as key facilitators for success. VLCD is a feasible approach for type 2 diabetes remission. Self-motivation and supportive environments are however crucial in meeting and maintaining the weight loss goals.

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Keeping on target during a low-calorie diet: The experiences of participants in a type 2 diabetes reversal pilot

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“…Some regional development analysts posit that although the 1970s began with a political revolution in many of the islands, it ended with an industrial one, which opened the door to capitalist logics, colonial mimicry, and the predation of the IMF (Beckford 1972 ; Young 1976 ; Levitt 2005 ). Consequently, the region continues to be plagued by plantation logics (Best 1968 ), the Westminster system (Girvan 2015 ), debt and import dependency (Barry et al 2020 ) and heteropatriarchal social relations (Barriteau 2001 ). And as postcolonial political geography scholars (Rhiney 2018 ; Mollett 2016 ; Noxolo 2018 ) assert, much of the Caribbean is currently coping with its most prolonged and complex development crisis vis-à-vis in/security, vulnerability and resilience since emancipation.…”

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Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean

2021

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This article provides a critical overview of the structural forces exacerbating risk related to disasters in the Caribbean. It focuses on the historical antecedents and socio-environmental consequences of extreme weather events across the region via an anti-colonial analysis of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and Dorian in 2019. The authors contend that the logics, practices and debts of colonial-capitalist development, neoliberal exploitation and post-independence corruption continue to reduce resilience and threaten public health in the region. They also detail the role that political economy and social geography play in the face of disasters. They end by proposing that future critiques of and solutions to vulnerability, disaster, and catastrophe in the Caribbean be more attentive to the historical trajectories of imperialism, debt and ‘underdevelopment’.

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“…Emanating from the colonial era (Best, 1968), the agricultural sectors of OECS members were and continue to be characterized by capitalist rationalities, dependency and plantation relations (Girvan & Girvan, 1973; Levitt, 2005). Enduring racial and class hierarchies linked to white supremacist and colonial worldviews (Barry et al, 2020) have correspondingly led to exploitative extraction, unsustainable monocropping, import dependency and an overreliance on service‐based tourism in the region (Beckford & Rhiney, 2016; Timms, 2008).…”

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Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Barry

Gahman

2021

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This article provides evidence of the food system challenges and structural barriers faced by women farmers and food producers in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. The aim of the piece is to add to critical literatures on political economy, development and food systems in the Majority World via recognizing the political agency of rural grassroots women in the Caribbean. To do so, we focus on the role that social reproduction has in the lives of working Caribbean women who are engaged in agricultural production. The analysis we offer was generated via a mix‐method project that included 111 farmers and agro‐processors from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We deliberately centre the perspectives of Afrodescendant rural women. Our study reveals the main barriers faced by women in agriculture are lack of access to land, concessions and capital; non‐gender responsive Agricultural Extension Services; an absence of national and sectorial gender policies; and ongoing dismissals of the time and effort that goes into unwaged socially reproductive labour. In illustrating these realities, we cast light on how the barriers faced by women food producers in the OECS are inextricably linked to persistent colonial‐plantation relations, patriarchal social norms and liberal‐capitalist logics.

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Wrestling with race and colonialism in Caribbean agriculture: Toward a (food) sovereign and (gender) just future

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Keeping on target during a low-calorie diet: The experiences of participants in a type 2 diabetes reversal pilot

Keeping on target during a low-calorie diet: The experiences of participants in a type 2 diabetes reversal pilot

Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean

Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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