Agnes Andersson
Professor, dekan
Gendered dynamics of state-led smallholder commercialisation in Ghana. The case of Nkoranza traditional area
Författare
Summary, in English
Commercial smallholder production is touted as a mechanism for reducing rural poverty and transforming African agriculture. In line with this ideology, the Ghanaian state introduced two policies to provide incentives for commercial food and tree crop cultivation among smallholder farmers. Policy implementation is done in a blanket manner without considerations of gendered differences in agricultural asset distribution, such as land, and the particular sociocultural opportunities and constraints men and women face in undertaking commercial production. The paper investigates these gendered trajectories using a qualitative methodology. Results reveal the varied nature of women's constraints and related levels of vulnerability. Although native women are structurally disadvantaged in commercial food crop production, tree crop commercialisation presents an opportunity for them to reclaim dormant land rights safeguarded by their male kin. These results provide perspective for considering gender-sensitive agricultural incentives as well as potential for leveraging on the tree crop sector for attaining gender neutrality.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
716-737
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of International Development
Volym
35
Issue
5
Fulltext
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Economic Geography
- Gender Studies
Nyckelord
- Commercialisation
- Land
- Smallholder
- Tenure rights
- Women
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1099-1328