gender
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Designing Gender-Responsive Climate Information Services: Insights from Evidence
Aayushi Malhotra (CASAS’ member) has published this report in the series CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion with Gerald Katothya, Ranjitha Puskur and Niyati Singaraju. Abstract: The CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) Accelerator enables transformative research on gender in agriculture and food systems, promoting equitable, sustainable, productive and climate-resilient outcomes. The Accelerator prioritizes the generation…
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Revisiting Deere in an Extractivist Era: Agrarian Reform and Feminist Legacies in Coastal Ecuador
CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…
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Palawan and Sabah in the oil palm frontier: undocumented Filipino migrant workers and the social reproduction of labour
CASAS’ member Carlo John B. Arceo has published with Diana Peters this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyses the social reproduction of undocumented migrant workers within a stringent labour regime in an enclosed Malaysian oil palm plantation. It illustrates how capital and institutions tolerate irregular migration, creating an intergenerational labour…
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Unpaid Women’s Labour driving Value Chain Disintegration in the Colombian Palm Oil Industry
Angela Serrano Zapata, CASAS’ member, has published this article with M. Sofía Luna Siachoque in Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. Abstract: This study reveals a fundamental driver for the reconfiguration of global value chains: the deliberate appropriation of unpaid women’s labour by corporations. Through 12 months of ethnographic research across different segments of the palm oil value…