This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective, specifically in in two countries, Cambodia and Ghana. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of food security, agricultural development and economics, gender, human rights and sustainable development.
Joanna Bourke Martignoni is a Senior Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and an Affiliate at the Graduate Institute's Gender Centre, Switzerland.
Christophe Gironde is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Christophe Golay is Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Switzerland.
Elisabeth Prügl is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland where she heads the Institute's Gender Centre.
Dzodzi Tsikata is Professor of Development Sociology and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana.
Introduction: Agriculture Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food
Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl, Fenneke Reysoo and Dzodzi Tsikata
Section I: Commercialized Livelihoods, Gender and Food Security
Section Introduction: The Food Security and Right to Food Implications of Gendered Land and Agricultural Commercialization
Dzodzi Tsikata
1. From Food-crop to Food-shop. Agricultural Commercialization, Food Security and Gender Relations in Cambodia
Christophe Gironde, Andres Torrico Ramirez, Kim Thida and Amaury Peeters
2. Gender, Agricultural Commercialization and Food Security in Ghana
Fred Dzanku and Dzodzi Tsikata
3. Emerging rural food markets in Kampong Thom (Cambodia): right to food, gender and shifting food cultures
Fenneke Reysoo
4. Gender, Changing Food Cultures and Food Security in the Context of Agricultural Commercialization in Ghana
Promise Eweh and Dzodzi Tsikata
Section II: Gender(ed) Policies for Food Security in a Commercializing World
Section Introduction: Gender(ed) Policies for Food Security
Elisabeth Prügl
5. Gender Mainstreaming in a Hybrid State: Entanglements of Patriarchy and Political Order in Cambodia's Food Security Sector
Saba Joshi, Muy Seo Ngouv and Elisabeth Prügl
6. Minding the Gap in Agriculture and Food Security: Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Participation in Policy Processes in Ghana
Martha A. Awo and Anna Antwi
7. Agricultural Commercialization and Gender Mainstreaming in Decentralized Ghana: The Politics of Business
Daniel Adu Ankrah, Dzodzi Tsikata and Fred Dzanku
Section III: Rights to Food, Land and Gender Equality in a Commercializing World
Section Introduction: Rights to Food, Land and Gender Equality
Joanna Bourke Martignoni
8. Feminist Legal Geographies of Land Titling, Indebtedness and Resistance in Rural Cambodia
Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Saba Joshi
9. Legal Pluralism, Gender Justice and Right to Food in Agrarian Ghana
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Atudiwe P. Atupare
10. Social Security in the Extractive State: Gender, Land Inheritance and Agrarian Change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
Alice Beban and Joanna Bourke Martignoni
11. Constitution, Courts, Right to Food and Gender Equality in Ghana
Atudiwe P. Atupare
Conclusion: From the Unequal Harvests of Commercialization to the Right to Food and Gender Equality: What Roles for Governments, Agribusinesses and Rural Communities?
Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl and Dzodzi Tsikata