Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food

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

• Introduction: Agriculture Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to FoodJoanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl, Fenneke Reysoo and Dzodzi TsikataSection I: Commercialized Livelihoods, Gender and Food Security Section Introduction: The Food Security and Right to Food Implications of Gendered Land and Agricultural CommercializationDzodzi Tsikata1. From Food-crop to Food-shop. Agricultural Commercialization, Food Security and Gender Relations in CambodiaChristophe Gironde, Andres Torrico Ramirez, Kim Thida and Amaury Peeters2. Gender, Agricultural Commercialization and Food Security in GhanaFred Dzanku and Dzodzi Tsikata3. Emerging rural food markets in Kampong Thom (Cambodia): right to food, gender and shifting food cultures Fenneke Reysoo4. Gender, Changing Food Cultures and Food Security in the Context of Agricultural Commercialization in GhanaPromise Eweh and Dzodzi TsikataSection II: Gender(ed) Policies for Food Security in a Commercializing WorldSection Introduction: Gender(ed) Policies for Food SecurityElisabeth Prügl5. Gender Mainstreaming in a Hybrid State: Entanglements of Patriarchy and Political Order in Cambodia’s Food Security SectorSaba 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 Antwi7. Agricultural Commercialization and Gender Mainstreaming in Decentralized Ghana: The Politics of BusinessDaniel Adu Ankrah, Dzodzi Tsikata and Fred DzankuSection III: Rights to Food, Land and Gender Equality in a Commercializing World Section Introduction: Rights to Food, Land and Gender EqualityJoanna Bourke Martignoni8. Feminist Legal Geographies of Land Titling, Indebtedness and Resistance in Rural CambodiaJoanna Bourke Martignoni and Saba Joshi9. Legal Pluralism, Gender Justice and Right to Food in Agrarian GhanaGertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Atudiwe P. Atupare10. Social Security in the Extractive State: Gender, Land Inheritance and Agrarian Change in Ratanakiri, CambodiaAlice Beban and Joanna Bourke Martignoni11. Constitution, Courts, Right to Food and Gender Equality in GhanaAtudiwe P. AtupareConclusion: 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