Towards a Gendered Agro-Commodity Approach

Nakazibwe, Primrose; Pelupessy, Wim

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2014.553

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“…Nakazibwe and Pelupessy () have observed that intra‐household dynamics and/or consumption within commodity value chains are not well addressed in the literature. Gender differences relating to who participates within the various nodes of the chain and when, and who controls incomes generated from production and marketing can be attributed to these intra‐household dynamics (Nakazibwe & Pelupessy, ). Little is known about what actually occurs in the ‘black box’ (households) that provides the labour force and primary resources for agro‐commodity chains in which women are predominant (Dunaway, ).…”

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“…They are often excluded from horizontal linkages such as relationships within an organisation, a group of producers or self‐help groups, as well as from vertical linkages such as those between buyers and suppliers. Most decisions regarding the production and distribution of yields and benefits are left to the male head of a household, consequently making it difficult for women to acquire a proportionate share of the resulting benefits (Nakazibwe & Pelupessy, ). Gender inequities arise from disparities in access to factors of production, land in particular, as well as education.…”

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Unlocking the Household ‘Black Box’: A Gendered Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Participation in the Cassava (Manihot esculenta crantz) Value Chain in Tanzania

Masamha

Thebe

Uzokwe

2017

J of Intl Development

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Women in developing countries are often omitted from key parts of the agricultural value chains. We used household survey data in bi-probit and ordinary least squares regression models to estimate the determinants of women's participation in cassava cultivation and marketing in Tanzania. Land size and region, among other factors, were significant determinants of household decisions to grow cassava. Policies for improving women's land rights and infrastructure would help to promote their participation in cassava production, processing and marketing. Improved methods of delivering extension information would also improve women's participation in the cassava value chain markets.

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Unlocking the Household ‘Black Box’: A Gendered Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Participation in the Cassava (Manihot esculenta crantz) Value Chain in Tanzania

Masamha

Thebe

Uzokwe

2017

J of Intl Development

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“…In a context in which volatile commodity prices often push farm receipts below the costs of production, further oligopolistic consolidation results in smaller returns for farmers. Research has demonstrated these and other mechanisms through which global value chains capture women's underpaid and unpaid labors in household community spheres (Fraser ; Lyon, Mutersbaugh, and Worthen ; Nakazibwe and Pelupessy ; Ramamurthy ). A question for development intervention is whether it is possible, in light of entrenched, structural mechanisms through which women's labor is alienated to a greater degree than men's labor, to effect alterations capable of addressing gendered asset gaps identified in the literature.…”

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Constructing the female coffee farmer: Do corporate smart‐economic initiatives promote gender equity within agricultural value chains?

Lyon

Mutersbaugh

Worthen

2018

Economic Anthropology

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The quest for gender economic equality is becoming a component of corporate and transnational institutional antipoverty initiatives in the Global South. Framed as "smart economics," this approach explicitly ties women's empowerment to economic growth. On one hand, this framework employs a discursive construction that depicts women as attentive, family-oriented entrepreneurs and caregivers who are more likely than their male counterparts to invest in their household and in their children's future; on the other hand, it involves a set of practices that register and reward women's participation. The smart-economics movement operates on both public and private registers, ranging from women-oriented government welfare programs to NGO-managed microcredit schemes and, in this article, corporate actors and public-private partnerships engaged in agricultural value chains. Here we examine recent smart-economic coffee industry initiatives, namely, a case study of microbatched "women's coffee" projects such as Allegro Coffee's Café La Dueña. We explore how coffee-market value-chain discourses and economic actions affect gendered ideologies and agricultural practices in coffee-producing communities. We compare the impact on members of an Oaxacan (Mexican) fairtrade, organic producer organization that has implemented a women's microbatching coffee initiative relative to other organizations that have not adopted such programs. We find that although the program fails to demonstrate improvements in gender equity by reducing agricultural asset gaps or enhancing women's economic decision-making power, landownership, or access to important agrotechnical services, it does lead to practical changes that are positively correlated with an increase in women's organizational participation, an openness of both women and men to gender-equity programs and services, and women's increased access to land titles. Smart-economic depictions of women as caring entrepreneurs also found a mixed reception in coffee communities: although women producers agreed with the notion that their coffee is superior, their risk aversion countered the entrepreneurial imaginary.

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“…While this research has provided an indication of gender-differentiated preferences for agroforests and other sustainable production methods, little evidence has emerged to show whether these preferences translate into gender differences in use of environmentally beneficial farming practices. In particular, research has yet to show gender differences in preferences in the production of cacao and other important commodity crops; crops that in many societies are regarded as men's domain (Bussolo et al 2009, Nakazibwe & Pelupessy 2014.…”

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Differences in women’s and men’s conservation of cacao agroforests in coastal Ecuador

Blare

Useche

2019

Envir. Conserv.

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SummaryStakeholder preferences for the conservation of cacao agroforests are scarcely known. Here, a revealed preference model was used to estimate the value that smallholders place on the conservation of their cacao agroforests in coastal Ecuador. Variables in the model included plot-level data (the gender of those who owned and managed the plot, profit, land title and years of ownership) and household demographic data (ages, educational levels and wealth indicators). Households were willing to give up some profit to conserve agroforests especially if they had managed the plot longer. Furthermore, when women were included in the management of a plot, the household was more likely to conserve the cacao agroforest, but the gender of the person who owns the plot had no effect on the probability of conserving the agroforest. These findings provide further evidence of the gender differences in preferences for agroforests and that more inclusive land-use decisions may lead to the use of more sustainable farming practices. They also demonstrate that policies that encourage inclusive land ownership do not necessarily ensure equal gender participation in plot decision-making and management.

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Towards a Gendered Agro-Commodity Approach

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References 63 publications

Unlocking the Household ‘Black Box’: A Gendered Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Participation in the Cassava (Manihot esculenta crantz) Value Chain in Tanzania

Unlocking the Household ‘Black Box’: A Gendered Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Participation in the Cassava (Manihot esculenta crantz) Value Chain in Tanzania

Constructing the female coffee farmer: Do corporate smart‐economic initiatives promote gender equity within agricultural value chains?

Differences in women’s and men’s conservation of cacao agroforests in coastal Ecuador

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