Introduction to symposium on labor, gender and new sources of agrarian change

Addison, Lincoln; Schnurr, Matthew A.

doi:10.1007/s10460-015-9656-1

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“…It also focuses on the process of transformation by agrarian societies from agriculture-dependent towards more industrialised and marketoriented modes of production (Alexander et al 2017;Beban and Gironde 2023). In the present-day context of Southeast Asia, agrarian transitions are not solely reducible to capitalist commodification, but are also influenced by a multitude of complex and interrelated factors, such as land, agricultural technologies, climate change, and various forms of structural development (Addison and Schnurr 2016;Castella 2012;Schoenberger et al 2017).…”

Section: Agrarian Transitions In the Lmbmentioning

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How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections

Tran,

Touch

2024

Agric Hum Values

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Recent decades have witnessed widespread agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia. This paper examines how agrarian transitions are shaped by multiple drivers of change, and how these interwoven processes have triggered shifts in agricultural extension practices in three countries in the Lower Mekong Basin: Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with experts working on the fields of agrarian studies and rural development, this paper argues that agrarian transitions not only put a strain on agricultural extension systems in responding to evolving needs, but they also stimulate the co-production of innovative agricultural extension models to address gaps left by the limited presence of extensionists. The study gains insight into challenges faced by extensionists, including a lack of resources, skills, and capacities to meet growing needs, which simultaneously urged them to excel in their work performance. The paper highlights the proactive role of ‘champions’ in orchestrating collective efforts towards the co-production of innovative agricultural extension models (e.g. Metkasekor), and the formulation of pluralistic extension platforms in enabling such ‘co-learning-to-act’ practices. By translating these insights into the broader contexts of agricultural and rural development in the Mekong region and beyond, this paper aims to make a two-fold contribution. First, it will assert how the ‘business-as-usual’ extension model has failed to adequately address emerging needs as a result of agrarian transitions. Second, it will provide pathways for the recognition and legitimisation of the pluralistic extension approach that fosters stakeholders’ co-learning and productive engagement in extension practices.

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Section: Agrarian Transitions In the Lmbmentioning

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How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections

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2024

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“…This diversity underscores the necessity of examining the effects of indebtedness relationally across different domains of social life, especially the household. Agrarian scholars of gender have long drawn critical attention to social divisions of labour within families (Addison & Schnurr, 2016; Agarwal, 1983; Baglioni, 2021; Boserup, 1993; Calvário & Desmarais, 2023; Deere, 1995; Fredlund, 2020; Mincyte, 2023; Naidu & Ossome, 2016; O'Laughlin, 2002; Ossome & Naidu, 2021; Razavi, 2009). These gendered divisions of labour have also been analysed by feminist scholars of the Middle East, whose work remains marginalized within the canon of agrarian studies (Abdelali‐Martini et al, 2003; Kandiyoti, 1988; Pfeifer, 1987; Sarkis Fernández, 2015).…”

Section: The Agrarian Question Of Debt: a Feminist Social Reproductio...mentioning

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Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp

Sajadian

2024

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork at the Lebanese‐Syrian border, this article analyses the gendered economy of debt among Syrian farmworkers in shawish camps, which have for decades supplied the largest and lowest paid seasonal labour force within Lebanon's food system. In turn, it traces how debt relations in these camps expanded as hundreds of thousands of Syrians sought long‐term refuge in Lebanon throughout the war in Syria (2011 to present). Revisiting classic and contemporary agrarian questions of debt from a feminist social reproduction perspective, the article charts how this debt system ultimately deepened the burdens of feminized work in the fields and in the home. Emblematic of debt's ‘reproductive binds’, these camps offer broader insights into how debt reconfigures gendered and generational divisions of labour within displaced agricultural families—and how these conditions are negotiated, contested and reproduced in daily life.

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Gender power in Kenyan dairy: cows, commodities, and commercialization

Tavenner

Crane

2018

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Introduction to symposium on labor, gender and new sources of agrarian change

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections

How agricultural extension responds to amplified agrarian transitions in mainland Southeast Asia: experts’ reflections

Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp

Gender power in Kenyan dairy: cows, commodities, and commercialization

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