Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food Insights from Ghana and Cambodia

Introduction: Agriculture Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food
Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl, Fenneke Reysoo and Dzodzi Tsikata

Section Introduction: The Food Security and Right to Food Implications of Gendered Land and Agricultural Commercialization
Dzodzi Tsikata

1. From Food-crop to Food-shop. Agricultural Commercialization, Food Security and Gender Relations in Cambodia
Christophe Gironde, Andres Torrico Ramirez, Kim Thida and Amaury Peeters

2. Gender, Agricultural Commercialization and Food Security in Ghana
Fred Dzanku and Dzodzi Tsikata

3. Emerging rural food markets in Kampong Thom (Cambodia): right to food, gender and shifting food cultures　
Fenneke Reysoo

4. Gender, Changing Food Cultures and Food Security in the Context of Agricultural Commercialization in Ghana
Promise Eweh and Dzodzi Tsikata

Section Introduction: Gender(ed) Policies for Food Security
Elisabeth Prügl

5. Gender Mainstreaming in a Hybrid State: Entanglements of Patriarchy and Political Order in Cambodia’s Food Security Sector
Saba Joshi, Muy Seo Ngouv and Elisabeth Prügl　

6. Minding the Gap in Agriculture and Food Security: Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Participation in Policy Processes in Ghana　
Martha A. Awo and Anna Antwi

7. Agricultural Commercialization and Gender Mainstreaming in Decentralized Ghana: The Politics of Business
Daniel Adu Ankrah, Dzodzi Tsikata and Fred Dzanku

Section Introduction: Rights to Food, Land and Gender Equality
Joanna Bourke Martignoni

8. Feminist Legal Geographies of Land Titling, Indebtedness and Resistance in Rural Cambodia
Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Saba Joshi

9. Legal Pluralism, Gender Justice and Right to Food in Agrarian Ghana
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Atudiwe P. Atupare

10. Social Security in the Extractive State: Gender, Land Inheritance and Agrarian Change in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
Alice Beban and Joanna Bourke Martignoni

11. Constitution, Courts, Right to Food　and Gender Equality in Ghana
Atudiwe P. Atupare

Conclusion: From the Unequal Harvests of Commercialization to the Right to Food and Gender Equality: What Roles for Governments, Agribusinesses and Rural Communities?
Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl and Dzodzi Tsikata

Biography

Joanna Bourke Martignoni is a Senior Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and an Affiliate at the Graduate Institute's Gender Centre, Switzerland.

Christophe Gironde is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Christophe Golay is Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Switzerland.

Elisabeth Prügl is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland where she heads the Institute’s Gender Centre.

Dzodzi Tsikata is Professor of Development Sociology and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana.

The authors’ fascinating comparisons between Ghana and Cambodia tease out the complex and complicated relationship between agriculture commercialization, gender, and food security. Many of the chapters provide new insights and specific policy recommendations about the links between agricultural commercialization, food security, gender, and the right to food that could be applied across multiple countries.

Carolyn Sachs, Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, USA