Simmering Tensions and Emerging Conflicts Among Key Group Actors Amid Capitalist Transformation in Northern Ghana DOI Creative Commons
Ibrahim Wahab, Joseph Awetori Yaro,

Gloria Afful‐Mensah

et al.

Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 22, 2024

ABSTRACT A capitalist agrarian transformation is unfolding in northern Ghana, marked by shifts crop types, rapid increases farm sizes and deepening rural social differentiation. This paper investigates these dynamics through a mixed‐methods approach across six farming communities two districts, focusing on how differentiation, accumulation, dispossession exploitation reshape the region. Urban male capitalists, collusion with local chiefs, drive mutual enrichment, while women landless youth are disproportionately disadvantaged. Their land rights increasingly eroded as powerful elites traditional ruling families appropriate accumulate capital at their expense. transformation, rooted patriarchal structures, fuelling tensions pockets of resistance among affected groups. The highlights individuals groups can thwart often well‐intentioned state‐led agriculture modernization initiatives for parochial interests. It shows predominantly urban‐based power brokers frequently hijack state's effort to reform sector context neoliberal economies Global South. offers broader insights into differentiation that arise between various competing group Finally, it raises questions justice generations gender which have implications political economy change structural Ghana. extend beyond cohesion, potential impacts biodiversity loss climate change.

Language: Английский

Rural Women’s Leadership Within the Cocoa Production Chain in Tibú, Norte de Santander, Colombia: A Gender Perspective DOI Creative Commons
Neida Albornoz‐Arias,

Camila Rojas-Sanguino,

Akever Karina Santafé Rojas

et al.

Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(4), P. 370 - 370

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

This study addresses gender inequality in rural areas, focusing on the structural and socio-cultural constraints faced by women, despite increasing feminisation of agriculture. The research question posed is: what are leadership experiences women cocoa production chain Tibú, Norte de Santander, Colombia? objective is to unveil Colombia. Using a qualitative interpretative approach case design, ten producers were analysed. coding technique was based theoretical material, generating two subcategories respective codes. associativity time use. findings reveal barriers such as shyness or fear rejection, low participation community groups, limited education, decision-making restrictions, unpaid work overload, lack leisure time, gender-based violence, factors that perpetuate poverty hinder their leadership. However, it highlights how women’s positively impact sustainable agriculture cohesion. Although public policies recognise key role, implementation remains insufficient. need for comprehensive strategies overcome inequalities promote inclusive development.

Language: Английский

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Empowering Rural Women in the Cocoa Production Chain in Sardinata, Norte de Santander, Colombia DOI Creative Commons
Neida Albornoz‐Arias,

Camila Rojas-Sanguino,

Akever Karina Santafé Rojas

et al.

Social Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(2), P. 94 - 94

Published: Feb. 8, 2025

Rural women in the agricultural sector face greater challenges than men accessing productive resources and equitably participating agrifood value chains. This article highlights empowerment experiences of rural involved cocoa production chain Sardinata, Norte de Santander, Colombia. A qualitative methodology was used, employing an inductive, interpretative approach a case-study design. Interviews were conducted with 10 female producers from Sardinata. The coding process, grounded theoretical material, generated five subcategories corresponding codes, leading to emergence new subcategory. narratives revealed that continue inequality participation, decision-making autonomy, which are reinforced by gender roles stereotypes. Despite their involvement production, they often overburdened unpaid caregiving duties. Land ownership, control access remain largely male-dominated. In addition, gender-based violence patriarchal expectations be significant barriers. study underscores fact women’s improved enhance participation decision-making, boost productivity contribute economic social development communities.

Language: Английский

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Care Work, Labour Control and the Gendered Social Reproduction of a Semi‐Landless Class in 19th Century Sweden DOI Creative Commons
Carolina Uppenberg

Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 13, 2025

ABSTRACT This article shows how the reproductive work in households of semi‐proletarianized Swedish group termed crofters (Sw: torpare ) ensured subsistence for and increased capital accumulation large landowners. Crofters lived under partly proletarianized, feudal conditions their labour organization illuminates proletarianization during 19th century. Through two concepts from field Marxist‐feminist social reproduction theory, Alessandra Mezzadri's ‘value theory inclusion’ Nancy Fraser's ‘contradictions care’, it is shown landowner externalized costs care to be absorbed by crofter households. control, household value land landowner, allowing accumulation. The analysis a process which institution underwent formal subsumption labour, keeping forms intact but increasingly contributing through reproduction.

Language: Английский

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Indigenous migrant labourers and land: towards an exploration of indigenous’ socio-cultural reproduction in the Colombian Altillanura DOI Creative Commons

Lasprilla J Arango

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Seasonal migrant farm workers at the nexus of production and social reproduction in contemporary Turkey DOI Creative Commons
Sinem Kavak, Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 12, 2025

Language: Английский

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Skilling and social reproduction DOI
Andrew Flachs, Juan José Becerra González,

Fionna Fahey

et al.

Outlook on Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 20, 2025

In this paper, we describe links between skilling, the social, environmental, and didactic process by which farmers learn adapt knowledge; social reproduction, work of continually creating relations institutions political economy. Skilling is always contextual: ways that people on farms are shaped through ecological possibilities their space, economies in they do agricultural work, local networks inclusion exclusion, live. Social reproduction theory considers how class formed labor differentiated. On farms, also creates a physical environment: stage skill performed. As such, can not only create conditions facilitate skilling but reproduce worlds inhibit it. This paper illustrates these connections examining intersect with classic peasant model decision-making, colonial legacy plantation agriculture, deskilling factory capitalist agriculture.

Language: Английский

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Emerging migrant workers and aspiring capitalist farmers in the aftermath of the land rush in Ethiopia DOI Creative Commons

Moges Belay

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 22, 2025

Language: Английский

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Mending the Broken Clock: Gender and Socioecological Changes in Postconflict North Sumatra DOI Creative Commons

Perdana “Pepe” Roswaldy

Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 30, 2025

ABSTRACT This article investigates a counterintuitive occurrence whereby indigenous Toba women in Pandumaan and Sipituhuta, North Sumatra, Indonesia, retained significant grievances despite successfully challenging landgrab their community. Juxtaposing ethnography, labour time records interviews with soil sampling, the explains how continued depletion river erosion following failed land grab correlate women's increased undercompensated time. In addition to these postconflict ecological damages, burden also reflected patriarchal expectations for female help rebuild village economy. Together, factors fuelled community success recovering lost land. By focusing on relationship between environmental change gendered agrarian relations, concludes by emphasising necessity of socioecological remedy based upon rehabilitative framework reparation social problems that are often left unaddressed aftermath conflicts.

Language: Английский

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Cross-border seasonal migrant labour and agricultural commodity production in the Ethiopia–Sudan borderlands DOI Creative Commons

Tsegaye Moreda

Agriculture and Human Values, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 26, 2025

Language: Английский

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Dysfunktional fürs Kapital DOI
Jakob Graf

PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 55(218), P. 33 - 53

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Die »surplus populations« des Globalen Südens rücken wieder stärker in den Blick kapitalismustheoretischer Debatten. Denn die Mehrheit der weltweiten Erwerbsbevölkerung muss ihr Überleben nach wie vor weitgehend außerhalb im engeren Sinne kapitalistischen Produktionsweise sichern. Dabei vertrete ich diesem Beitrag unter Bezugnahme auf jüngere Veröffentlichungen Feld kritischen Entwicklungstheorie These, dass vielmehr als dysfunktional oder zumindest afunktional für das Kapital begriffen werden müssen. Ihr ist daher hohem Maße eine Frage politischer Kräfteverhältnisse und nicht ökonomischer Funktionalität geworden.

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