Journal of Agrarian Change,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Дек. 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.
Outlook on Agriculture,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Март 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.
Agriculture,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
15(4), С. 370 - 370
Опубликована: Фев. 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.
Social Sciences,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
14(2), С. 94 - 94
Опубликована: Фев. 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.
Journal of Agrarian Change,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 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.
PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
55(218), С. 33 - 53
Опубликована: Фев. 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.
Journal of Agrarian Change,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 26, 2025
ABSTRACT
When
coal
mines
expand
across
Central
and
Eastern
India,
agrarian
groups
typically
object
strongly
to
displacement.
Meanwhile,
often
in
the
immediate
vicinity
of
expanding
mines,
previously
displaced
now
working
economy
protest
against
mine
closures.
Additional
millions
are
situated
somewhere
between
attempts
protect
livelihoods
keeping
a
job
as
their
lives
become
increasingly
conflated
with,
dependent
on,
coal.
In
this
article,
we
draw
on
long‐term
recent
engagements
two
coal‐producing
states
India
reflect
difficult
livelihood
transitions
away
from
mining
among
indigenous
caste
Hindu
groups.
We
focus
enduring
value
land
for
which
there
is
no
good
substitute
means
social
reproduction.
inevitably
closes,
lacking
skills
holdings
generate
downward
spiral
enforced
towards
insecure
informality.
This
creates
tensions
concept
‘just
transitions’
when
applied
Indian
sector.
