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Researching land and commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa with a gender perspective: concepts, issues and methods

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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:35 authored by Helen DancerHelen Dancer, Dzodzi Tsikata
This paper offers critical reflections on the concepts, issues and methods that are important for integrating a gender perspective into mainstream research and policy-making on land and agricultural commercialisation in Africa. It forms part of the Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa (LACA) project undertaken by the Future Agricultures Consortium between 2012 and 2015 and informs the case studies conducted across three countries: Kenya, Ghana and Zambia. The paper compares key gender issues that arise across three different models of agricultural commercialisation: plantation, contract farming and small- and medium-scale commercial farming. It further discusses how concepts and research methods deriving from the literature on gender and agriculture may be applied to mainstream research. The paper highlights the need for an integrated approach to researching gender and agrarian change in Africa. In particular, the existing gender literature provides a rich legacy for researchers of all disciplines to inform their research design and analysis. The authors argue for a more systematic evaluation of the gender implications of agricultural commercialisation across interconnected social levels: household, local community and the wider political economy.

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Future Agricultures; DFID

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Future Agricultures Working Paper 132

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30.0

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Institute of Development Studies, Brighton

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Institute of Development Studies

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2018-01-04

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2018-01-04

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2018-01-03

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