@book {36656, title = {Gender and the Global Land Grab: A Feminist Global Governance Approach}, year = {2024}, publisher = {McGill-Queen{\textquoteright}s University Press}, organization = {McGill-Queen{\textquoteright}s University Press}, address = {Montreal \& Kingston}, abstract = {

[[{"fid":"11537","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"354","width":"274","style":"float: left;","alt":"Cover Page of Gender and the Global Land Grab","title":"Gender and the Global Land Grab","class":"media-element file-default "}}]]Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are especially disadvantaged by the global land grab: they are less likely to inherit, control, or make decisions over land, but often need land to support themselves, their families, and their communities. While international organizations have developed global guidelines to improve land governance, tensions still run high as the current policies fall short.\ 

Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist conceptual framework to analyze land governance policy around the world. Andrea M. Collins shows how gender norms, biases, and expectations shape land politics at different levels of governance. Drawing on examples from sub-Saharan Africa and with an in-depth case study of land politics in Tanzania, the book assesses guidelines developed by institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank to highlight essential considerations for developing and implementing gender-sensitive policy.\ 

Illustrating how gender shapes resource policy across all levels of political activity, Gender and the Global Land Grab provides valuable tools for transforming global policymaking.

}, url = {https://www.mqup.ca/gender-and-the-global-land-grab-products-9780228021148.php}, author = {Andrea M. Collins} } @article {28956, title = {Empowerment, Rights, and Global Food Governance: Gender in the UN Committee for World Food Security}, journal = {Globalizations}, volume = {19}, year = {2022}, pages = {220-237}, abstract = {This article analyses discussions of gender equality, women{\textquoteright}s empowerment, and women{\textquoteright}s rights in the United Nations Committee for World Food Security (CFS). This article analyses how gender inequality has been understood and addressed by different constituencies in the reformed CFS and finds that there has been a push to challenge empowerment discourses by instead emphasizing women{\textquoteright}s rights. These efforts to advance women{\textquoteright}s rights in the context of food security and nutrition includes calling for attention to systemic economic, political and cultural inequalities and a repoliticization of gender inequality. This article highlights these debates about gender inequality, reflects on the broader implications for food system governance, and poses new questions for feminist scholars of international relations.}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2021.1877006?journalCode=rglo20}, author = {Andrea M. Collins} } @inbook {31052, title = {Gender and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda}, booktitle = {Natural-Resource Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora{\textquoteright}s Box?}, year = {2022}, pages = {101-122}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, organization = {University of Toronto Press}, address = {Toronto}, url = {https://utorontopress.com/9781487505219/natural-resource-based-development-in-africa/}, author = {Patricia Ackah-Baidoo and Andrea M. Collins and J. Andrew Grant} } @inbook {31053, title = {How the Legacies of the Last Global Food Crisis Sowed the Seeds for the Next One}, booktitle = {Critical Perspectives in Food Studies}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, edition = {3rd Edition}, url = {https://global.oup.com/academic/product/critical-perspectives-in-food-studies-9780199034093?lang=en\&cc=at$\#$}, author = {Jennifer Clapp and Andrea Collins and Phoebe Stephens} } @article {31051, title = {Linking social wellbeing and intersectionality to understand gender relations in dried fish value chains}, journal = {Maritime Studies}, volume = {20}, year = {2021}, pages = {355-370}, url = {https://rdcu.be/cO5sO}, author = {Madu Galappaththi and Andrea M. Collins and Derek Armitage and Prateep Nayak} } @article {15147, title = {Financialization, Resistance, and the Question of Women\&$\#$39;s Land Rights}, journal = {International Feminist Journal of Politics}, volume = {21}, year = {2019}, month = {Dec 2018}, pages = {454-476}, abstract = {The financialization of food and agricultural land has been a critical driver of the {\textquotedblleft}land-grabbing{\textquotedblright} phenomenon in the post 2007{\textendash}2008 period: the potential for land to be both a productive and financial asset has driven interest in long-term land rentals and sales. Scholars and activists have highlighted the negative effects of these trends for rural populations. International institutions have promoted the recognition of land rights as a means to secure land from seizure, ensure equal participation in land acquisitions, and enable low-income populations, including women, to access credit. At the same time, activists are promoting collective land rights, customary modes of land tenure and the rights of Indigenous peoples. For activists, land reform models that promote the collective rights of peoples to govern land are critical to resisting individualized land ownership models that encourage the alienation of land. This article reviews these rights-based frameworks using a critical feminist perspective and argues that both the institutionalist and activist approaches require more nuanced understandings of gender and difference in order to effect gender-equitable change. This article concludes by mapping new feminist research directions that consider land and resources within the context of local{\textendash}global processes, the global economy, intersectionality and global rights-based discourses.}, url = {https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2018.1532805}, author = {Andrea M. Collins} } @article {15148, title = {Glocal dynamics of Land Grabs and Natural Resource Extraction: Insights from Tanzania}, journal = {Land Use Policy}, volume = {81}, year = {2019}, pages = {889-896}, abstract = {

Several global governance initiatives have tried to address the heightened interest in land reform across sub-Saharan Africa, each identifying principles of good governance to promote investment while minimizing exploitation of local populations. Tanzania has been particularly earnest in seeking to implement land reform. Yet in spite of legislative reforms, several communities in Tanzania are still crying foul over perceptions of being marginalized as well as experiencing negative impacts on household human security in the form of access to food and employment. A useful way to investigate these perceptions is to situate analyses of land reform and natural resource governance within the interplay of {\textquoteleft}global{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}local{\textquoteright} forces {\textendash} glocal dynamics. Based on recently conducted field research and participant observations, this article provides timely analyses of Tanzania{\textquoteright}s land governance reforms. This article identifies gaps in how policies have been conceived and in turn impacted vulnerable populations including rural women. The article also finds that global governance institutions need to pay greater attention to how land reform recommendations are implemented in order to cultivate equity and effectiveness.

}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.05.027}, author = {Andrea M. Collins and Patricia Ackah-Baidoo and Grant, Andrew} } @article {10949, title = {Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies}, journal = {Canadian Food Studies}, volume = {5}, year = {2018}, pages = {19-38}, abstract = {A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to consider women within such initiatives, global governance institutions often overlook the complex gendered dimensions of food systems alongside agricultural land and labour markets. Although institutions emphasize the need for {\textquotedblleft}women{\textquoteright}s empowerment{\textquotedblright}, few policy recommendations have considered its practical application. Indeed, many governance initiatives that address food security or promote land security tend to depoliticize inequalities, which shows the importance of feminist food studies from the perspective of global food and land policy. Integrating a feminist food studies lens to the global governance of food and agriculture allows us to explore the complexities of gendered relations in agricultural practices. A more complete understanding of everyday material, socio-cultural and corporeal experiences within agricultural practices provides a greater understanding of the mechanisms by which gender relations structure food production, land ownership, resource access and governance processes. By using a feminist food studies lens we see a more complete picture of the realities of local resource management and the potential implications for global policymakers such as the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Committee for World Food Security (CFS). Through this framework, I illustrate how feminist analyses challenge conventional approaches to gender in global policymaking related to food and agricultural production.\ }, url = {http://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/228}, author = {Collins, Andrea M.} } @article {4836, title = {Revisiting the World Bank\&$\#$39;s land law reform agenda in Africa: The promise and perils of customary practices}, journal = {Journal of Agrarian Change}, volume = {18}, year = {2018}, pages = {112-131}, abstract = {

This paper revisits the World Bank{\textquoteright}s land law reform agenda in Africa by focusing on two central issues: (1) land law reform as a tool for resolving land conflicts, and (2) the role of land law reform in addressing gender inequalities. While the Bank{\textquoteright}s recent land report provides insights for improving land governance in Africa, it fails to acknowledge the exploitative and contentious politics that often characterize customary land tenure systems, and the local power dynamics that undermine the ability of marginalized groups to secure land rights. Using insights from recent fieldwork, the paper analyses the links between land law reform and conflict in Ghana, and the gendered dynamics of reforming land governance in Tanzania. These {\textquotedblleft}crucial cases{\textquotedblright} illustrate how land law reform can provoke conflicts over land and threaten the rights of vulnerable populations (e.g. migrants and women) when customary practices are uncritically endorsed as a means of improving land governance. As such, the paper concludes with a series of recommendations on how to navigate the promise and perils of customary practices in the governance of land.

}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joac.12201/abstract}, author = {Collins, Andrea M. and Matthew I. Mitchell} } @article {7370, title = {Saying all the right things? Gendered discourse in climate-smart agriculture}, journal = {Journal of Peasant Studies}, volume = {45}, year = {2018}, month = {October 2017}, pages = {175-191}, abstract = {

Amidst debates about the role of {\textquoteleft}climate-smart agriculture{\textquoteright} (CSA), the intersection of concerns about climate change and agriculture offer an opportunity to consider how gender is considered in global policymaking. The latest module in the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, World Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development Gender and Agriculture Sourcebook {\textendash} {\textquoteleft}Gender and Climate Smart Agriculture{\textquoteright} {\textendash} offers an opportunity to reassess how gender factors into these global recommendations. This contribution argues that the module makes strides toward more gender-aware policymaking, but the version of CSA discussed in the module sidesteps the market-led and productivity-oriented practices often associated with CSA. As a result, though the module pushes a more feminist agenda in many respects, it does not fully consider the gendered implications of corporate-led and trade-driven CSA.

}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2017.1377187}, author = {Andrea M Collins} } @article {15011, title = {Women\’s perspectives of small-scale fisheries and environmental change in Chilika lagoon, India}, journal = {Maritime Studies}, volume = {17}, year = {2018}, pages = {145-154}, abstract = {This article investigates the gendered implications of environmental change using case studies of two small-scale fishing communities in Chilika lagoon, India. We undertake an intersectional analysis that examines dynamics between groups of fisherwomen in relation to social-ecological change. We focus specifically on (1) fisherwomen{\textquoteright}s perspectives about the key drivers of change (e.g., natural disasters and aquaculture) within the social and ecological system of Chilika lagoon; (2) how environmental change is impacting the livelihoods and coping responses of fisherwomen; and (3) how fisherwomen communities are adapting to the ongoing process of change, highlighting in particular the gendered dimensions of out-migration. Our findings demonstrate that fisherwomen{\textquoteright}s roles and identities are not static and that the impacts of environmental change vary for different groups of fisherwomen. We find that gender intersects with caste, income, geographic location, age, and household membership to create heterogeneous experiences and knowledge that reflects the complexities associated with gender and environmental change. With specific regard to the increase in fisherwomen out-migrating, we show that responses and adaptations to environmental change have gender-differentiated impacts and challenges.}, url = {https://maritimestudiesjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s40152-018-0100-1}, author = {Khan, Fatima Noor and Collins, Andrea M. and Nayak, Prateep Kumar and Armitage, Derek} } @article {7103, title = {Goal Setting and Governance: Examining the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition with a Gender Lens}, journal = {Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations}, volume = {23}, year = {2017}, pages = {423-441}, abstract = {

Building on recent discussions of the role of public-private partnerships in\ governance, this article argues that we must be more critical of the goals set by PPPs, and pay closer attention to the ways in which gender-based inequalities are obscured or overlooked in the construction of global policy strategies. In particular, the Group of 8{\textquoteright}s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition pledges to {\textquotedblleft}act upon the critical role{\textquotedblright} played by women. Yet this article reveals that the New Alliance partnerships offer little in terms of substantive goals that address the gender inequalities experienced in rural land and labor markets, and instead appear to favor the expansion of trade without reference to the implications for rural food security.

}, url = {http://journals.rienner.com/doi/abs/10.5555/1075-2846.23.3.423?code=lrpi-site}, author = {Collins, Andrea M.} } @inbook {4834, title = {Improving Agricultural Land Tenure Security for Women: Assessing the FAO\’s Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure}, booktitle = {Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key issues and practical approaches}, year = {2017}, pages = {133-146}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Women-in-Agriculture-Worldwide-Key-issues-and-practical-approaches/Fletcher-Kubik/p/book/9781472473080}, author = {Collins, Andrea M.}, editor = {A.J. Fletcher and W. Kubik} } @article {4835, title = {Empowerment as efficiency and participation: gender in responsible agricultural investment principles}, journal = {International Feminist Journal of Politics}, volume = {18}, year = {2016}, pages = {559-573}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2016.1191791}, author = {Collins, Andrea M.} } @inbook {4833, title = {Refocusing Governance from the \&$\#$39;Bottom-Up\&$\#$39;: Understanding the Gendered Dynamics of Land Deals for Biofuel Development in Kenya and Tanzania}, booktitle = {New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa}, year = {2015}, pages = {181-199}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan}, url = {http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137280404}, author = {Andrea M Collins}, editor = {J.A. Grant and W.R.N. Compaor{\'e} and M.I. Mitchell} } @article {4832, title = {Governing the Global Land Grab: What role for Gender in the Voluntary Guidelines and the Principles for Responsible Investment?}, journal = {Globalizations}, volume = {11}, year = {2014}, pages = {109-203}, abstract = {

The heightened interest in large-scale foreign agricultural investment in regions with {\textquoteleft}unused{\textquoteright} arable land has triggered a great deal of international attention. Concerns about {\textquoteleft}land grabbing{\textquoteright} have initiated efforts at the global level to establish standards for {\textquoteleft}responsible investment{\textquoteright} and good governance. These initiatives warrant critical examination given the social, political, and economic inequalities to which they are designed to respond, yet the scholarship on these initiatives frequently fails to incorporate gendered analyses. This article argues that gendered analysis of the governance of land grabs not only belongs at the local level{\textemdash}where it continues to yield important insights into how gender inequality is manifested in various forms of local governance{\textemdash}but that it is sorely needed at the global level as well. As such, this article begins an assessment of these governance frameworks and how they consider local realities, with particular attention to gender-based inequalities.

}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2014.887388}, author = {Collins, Andrea M} }