Situated knowledge and the <scp>EU</scp> sugar reform: a Caribbean life history

Richardson-Ngwenya, Pamela

doi:10.1111/area.12011

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“…The sugar industry, long integral to the cultural identity Guyana Gold 235 of Guyana, has virtually collapsed, today contributing less than 4 per cent of GDP, down from over 7 per cent in 2006. Guyana was a primary beneficiary of the Sugar Protocol, annexed in the Lomé Convention of 1975 that committed the European Economic Community to buy 0.16 Mt of raw sugar, at negotiated prices from the country annually (Richardson-Ngwenya, 2013). The Sugar Protocol, however, was officially dissolved by the European Union in 2007 on the grounds that it was believed to be incompatible with fresh WTO commitments.…”

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Guyana Gold: A Unique Resource Curse?

Hilson¹,

Laing²

2019

Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies

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This article offers explanations for the underwhelming economic performance of Guyana, a country heavily dependent on the revenue generated from gold mining. Here, government intervention has spawned a gold mining sector which today is comprised exclusively of local small and medium-scale operators. But whilst this rather unique model appears to be the ideal blueprint for facilitating local development, the country seems to be experiencing many of the same setbacks that have beset scores of other resource-rich developing world economies. Unless these problems are anticipated, properly diagnosed and appropriately tackled, a resource curse-type outcome is inevitable, irrespective of the context.

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Section: Mahdiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Guyana Gold: A Unique Resource Curse?

Hilson¹,

Laing²

2019

Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies

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“…As such the nature, possibilities and limitations of peasant agriculture must be situated in relation to historical processes. This entails going beyond investigations of the deepening of the corporate food regime (Jarosz ; Patnaik and Moyo ; Sage ) and exploring ‘the embeddedness of agro‐food relations in place’ (Richardson‐Ngwenya , 191). In order to understand how large processes work in particular places and how socially embedded actors make sense of and respond to them, we utilize a second heuristic, that of ‘lived experience’.…”

Section: Food Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Lived Experience of Food Sovereignty: Gender, Indigenous Crops and Small‐Scale Farming in Mtubatuba, South Africa

Ngcoya

Kumarakulasingam

2016

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Food sovereignty has become a powerful concept to critique the dominant global food regime. Although it has not taken root in South Africa as fiercely as elsewhere, we use this concept to explore how one small-scale farmer seeks to wean herself from the dominant food system in the small town of Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal. Using ethnographic methods and in-depth interviews about this single intense and extreme case, we explore this farmer's commitment and argue that it constitutes what we call the 'lived experience of food sovereignty'. If food sovereignty is concerned with small-farmer control over decisions about food cultivation, distribution and consumption, we examine this farmer's praxis and explore the obstacles she faces. These include gendered and racialized agrarian questions, land struggles, social reproduction and perceptions of her indigenous crops. We also examine the networks, knowledge, systems and methods that have allowed her to cultivate her self-reliance. We are also indebted to Ms Fakazile Mthethwa for sharing with us her time, knowledge and attention, and we thank Smanga Khumalo, Mohammed Khan, Nokuthula Ngubane and Menzi Bhengu for research assistance. Garrett Graddy-Lovelace provided excellent feedback on an earlier draft. We also thank the anonymous reviewers of this Journal for their comments and suggestions. bs_bs_banner 1 Subsistence agriculture in Mtubatuba, as elsewhere in the rural hinterlands of South Africa, typically refers to agricultural production on small plots of land, usually for domestic consumption and augmenting other sources of food.In fact, what we have seen in this area is that far from indicating self-sufficiency, in many cases subsistence farming means relying on remittances and social grants not only to buy food but also to cover the monetary expenses of farming (such as buying implements, seeds and paying for transport). On the racialized history of subsistence agriculture in this regard, see Bundy (1979) and Mbeki (1964). 2 Imifino is an isiZulu term for edible wild or weedy leafy green vegetables. The term itself is dynamic and subjective and indicates the importance of a plant for the indigenous peoples using the term.

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“…The sugar industry, long integral to the cultural identity Source: Guyana Bureau of Statistics (2014) of Guyana, has virtually collapsed, today contributing less than 4 per cent of GDP, down from over 7 per cent in 2006. Guyana was a primary beneficiary of the Sugar Protocol, annexed in the Lomé Convention of 1975 that committed the European Economic Community to buy 0.16 Mt of raw sugar, at negotiated prices from the country annually (Richardson-Ngwenya, 2013). The Sugar Protocol, however, was officially dissolved by the European Union in 2007 on the grounds that it was believed to be incompatible with fresh WTO commitments.…”

Section: Potaromentioning

confidence: 99%