Gender and the Global Land Grab - Andrea M. Collins

Gender and the Global Land Grab

A Feminist Global Governance Approach
Buch | Hardcover
234 Seiten
2024
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2113-1 (ISBN)
113,45 inkl. MwSt
Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors, displacing rural communities and disproportionately impacting women. Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist framework to analyze global land governance policy and offers tools for developing gender-sensitive resource policy.
Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are especially disadvantaged by the global land grab: they are less likely to inherit, control, or make decisions over land, but often need land to support themselves, their families, and their communities. While international organizations have developed global guidelines to improve land governance, tensions still run high as the current policies fall short.

Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist conceptual framework to analyze land governance policy around the world. Andrea Collins shows how gender norms, biases, and expectations shape land politics at different levels of governance. Drawing on examples from sub-Saharan Africa and with an in-depth case study of land politics in Tanzania, the book assesses guidelines developed by institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank to highlight essential considerations for developing and implementing gender-sensitive policy.

Illustrating how gender shapes resource policy across all levels of political activity, Gender and the Global Land Grab provides valuable tools for transforming global policymaking.

Andrea M. Collins is associate professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.6.2024
Reihe/Serie Frontiers of Global Governance
Zusatzinfo 1 photo, 4 tables
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-2280-2113-8 / 0228021138
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-2113-1 / 9780228021131
Zustand Neuware
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