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Gender, Food and COVID-19: Global Stories of Harm and Hope book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Food and COVID-19 Global Stories of Harm and Hope

Edited By Paige Castellanos, Carolyn E. Sachs, Ann R. Tickamyer Copyright 2022
182 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural production and access to food remain essential. Women provide much of the formal and informal work in... Read more

Introduction

Part 1. Food insecurity

1. COVID-19, gender, and small-scale farming in Nepal
Stephanie Leder, Gitta Shrestha, Rachana Upadhyaya, and Yuvika Adhikari

2. Gender implications of COVID-19 in Cambodia
Sovanneary Huot and Leif Jensen

3. COVID-19, India, small-scale farmers, and indigenous Adivasi communities – the answer to the future lies in going back to basics
Regina Hansda

4. Social aspects of women’s agribusiness in times of COVID-19 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Nozomi Kawarazuka and Pham Thi Hoa

Part 2. Care work in families, households, and communities

5. Covid-19, gender, agriculture, and future research
Hannah Budge and Sally Shortall

6. Renegotiating care from the local to global
Kayla Yurco

Part 3. Intersectional inequalities in the food system

7. Facing COVID-19 in rural Honduras: experiences of an indigenous women’s association
Alfredo Reyes, Hazel Velasco, Mercedes García, and Olga Pérez 

8. Cultivating community resilience: working in solidarity in and beyond crisis
Angie Carter

9. COVID-19, migrant workers, and meatpacking in US agriculture: a critical feminist reflection
Emily Southard

10. Queerness in the US agrifood system during COVID-19
Michaela Hoffelmeyer

11. Food corporation allegiance or worker solidarity? Summoning restaurant worker solidarity in the age of COVID-19
Whitney Shervey

Part 4. Beyond COVID: moving forward with policy and research

12. COVID-19 and feminist methods: one year later
Ann R. Tickamyer

13. The importance of sex-disaggregated and gender data to a gender-inclusive COVID-19 response in the aquatic food systems
Afrina Choudhury, Surendran Rajaratnam and Cynthia McDougall

14. In and out of place
Lia Bryant

15. Beyond COVID-19: building the resilience of vulnerable communities in African food systems
Lilian Nkengla-Asi, Marc J. Cohen and María del Rosario Castro Bernardini

Conclusion

Biography

Paige Castellanos is currently an Assistant Research Professor at Pennsylvania State University, US, in Ag Sciences Global and Rural Sociology. She is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture (Routledge, 2020).

Carolyn E. Sachs is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, US. She is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture (Routledge, 2020) and editor of Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations (Routledge, 2019).

Ann R. Tickamyer is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University, US. She is the author and editor of multiple books, including Rural Poverty in the United States (2017, with Jennifer Sherman and Jennifer Warlick).

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