Agricultural and land commercialization – feminist and rights perspectives

Abstract

The article introduces the Forum on Commercializing Agriculture/ Reorganizing Gender, which reports findings from DEMETER project, a collaboration of scholars from Cambodia, Ghana and Switzerland. The project examines how agriculture and food security policies have advanced or hindered gender equality and the right to food; analyzes the role of human rights-based accountability mechanisms in this; and maps gendered changes in livelihoods in situated contexts. We offer a literature review on governance of the international food system from a gender and rights perspective, and on the gendered political economy of agrarian change. We relate the contributions of the Forum to existing literature and preview their findings

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Research Article

Keywords

Agricultural commercialisation, land commercialisation, gender, right to food, Cambodia, Ghana

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