Taking measure of an escape crop: Cassava relationality in a contemporary quilombo-remnant community

Roman, Gabriel Graton; Westengen, Ola Tveitereid

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.008

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“…This activity manifests is a force of regional socioeconomic attraction, with its modes of production in coherent alignment with the ecological and cultural context. It provides a strong stimulus to congregation and interaction between members of the same family or between different families in a speci c community, indigenous or non-indigenous, performing multiple functions within a regionalized agri-food system (Denardin & Komarcheski, 2015;Roman & Westengen, 2022).…”

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Biocultural Elements and Multifunctionality of Cassava Flour Production in Agrarian Reform Settlements in the Extreme South of Bahia, Brazil

Marchetti,

da Silva,

e Silva

et al. 2024

Hum Ecol

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Artisanal manufacture of cassava our mobilizes a cultural and biological framework that has developed and been continuously improved over generations of traditional rural workers. Despite this evidence in Brazilian traditional communities, few studies focus on rural settlements of agrarian reform. This paper addresses a broad diagnosis of our production in rural settlements in the Extreme South of Bahia, Brazil, carried out in 2019. Thirty rural settlements were visited in eleven municipalities, where 107 our-houses were evaluated. The results present the socioeconomic pro les of local farmers, cassava varieties, types of our, particularities of production and characteristics of commercialization. Finally, the multiple functions of artisanal production of cassava our are highlighted, especially related to the social and economic maintenance of settled families, the promotion of food security and sovereignty within and around the settlements, strengthening of the social and cultural fabrics, and the conservation of agrobiodiversity in the rural landscape.

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Biocultural Elements and Multifunctionality of Cassava Flour Production in Agrarian Reform Settlements in the Extreme South of Bahia, Brazil

Marchetti,

da Silva,

e Silva

et al. 2024

Hum Ecol

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“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding

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Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding teams are expected to use ‘market-based’ approaches to design more ‘demand-led’ and ‘gender-responsive’ crop varieties. Based on an institutional ethnography that includes high-profile development-oriented breeding initiatives, we unpack these terms using perspectives from political agronomy and feminist science and technology studies. By conceptualising the market as an ongoing, relational performance made up of discourses, practices and human and nonhuman actors, we trace how the market is understood as an effective socioeconomic institution for soliciting demand, but also becomes a normative agenda. Construed as a demand variable, the relational and structural dimensions of gender are rendered less visible, which might strengthen rather than transform power relations’ status quo. On the other hand, a feminist science and technology perspective broadens the field of vision not only to the gendered dimensions of crop breeding, but also to the nonhuman actors, such as the crops and traits falling outside the market sphere of interest. By putting political agronomy and feminist science and technology studies into conversation, the article contributes to the development of a feminist political agronomy.

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The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital

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Taking measure of an escape crop: Cassava relationality in a contemporary quilombo-remnant community

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Biocultural Elements and Multifunctionality of Cassava Flour Production in Agrarian Reform Settlements in the Extreme South of Bahia, Brazil

Biocultural Elements and Multifunctionality of Cassava Flour Production in Agrarian Reform Settlements in the Extreme South of Bahia, Brazil

“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding

The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital

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