A Special Issue:
LAND, GENDER, AND FOOD SECURITY
Guest Editors
Stephanie Seguino, Gale Summerfield, and Dzodzi Tsikata
In reaction to the global food price
crisis in 2007–8 as well as concerns over population
pressures and water shortages, wealthier developing
countries and newly industrialized ones have begun
a surge of leasing and acquisition of millions of
hectares of farmland in many poorer developing countries.
The expanding global demand for biofuels and other
non-food agricultural commodities, along with rising
agricultural commodity prices, represent an additional
impetus for these acquisitions by wealthier developing
countries. Experts are concerned that these large-scale
land deals will increase food insecurity and inequalities
within the countries that lease or sell land. Such
transactions may also widen income gaps between the
wealthier and poorer developing countries engaged
in them.
To date, analyses of land acquisitions have not addressed
gender implications of these processes. Given women’s
important roles as producers and consumers of agricultural
products in affected countries and the implications
of gender equality for long-run growth, this is a
critical lacuna in research. For this special issue,
Feminist Economics encourages scholars from economics
and related disciplines to submit papers that reveal
gender impacts of the leases and acquisitions, including
effects on women’s access to land, intrahousehold
allocation, on-farm agricultural productivity, household
food security, and investments in children’s well-being.
Consideration of gender differences related to class,
ethnicity, and location are encouraged.Feminist Economics
especially welcomes submissions from the Global South
and transition economies.
Contributions may cover diverse topics, including
but not limited to:
- Distributional, including gender, effects on
access to and control over land and livelihoods
- Gender employment effects and broader socioeconomic
impacts of land leasing and land acquisition
- Impacts of the leasing arrangements on urban
and rural producers and consumers
- Land rights, human rights, and socioeconomic
justice
- Responses by civil society and government to
land acquisitions
Deadline
for abstracts: Please direct queries and abstracts
(500 words maximum) to the Guest Editors, Stephanie
Seguino ( sseguino@uvm.edu),
Gale Summerfield ( summrfld@illinois.edu),
and Dzodzi Tsikata ( dzodzit@yahoo.co.uk
or dtsikata@ug.edu.gh),
no later than 15 January 2011.
If the Guest Editors approve an abstract, the potential
contributor may be eligible to apply for a small amount
of funding to partially defray research expenses.
The complete, invited manuscript will be due 15
March 2011 and should be submitted to Feminist
Economics through the submissions website ( http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec).
Questions about these procedures may be sent to feministeconomics@rice.edu,
+1.713.348.4083 (phone), or +1.713.348.5495 (fax).
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