WUNRN
UNRISD - United Nations Research
Institute on Social Development
GENDER & AGRICULTURE AFTER
NEOLIBERALISM
Direct Link to Full 20-Page UNRISD
Report:
Four Areas of Focus:
- Agrarian transformations and their gender fault lines;
- Changing land tenure systems and their gender
implications;
- Agrarian capitalism, global forces and land grabbing:
Continuity and change; and
- Feminization of labour within agrarian economies:
Autonomy or subordination?
The fundamental
shift in agricultural production systems rung in byneoliberalism from the 1980s
onwards imposed a new template on developing countries,creating new forms of
“legitimacy” for state intervention. Mechanisms such as land titling have
transformed rules of possession into rights of property. Changing forms of
accumulation and changes in agrarian regimes (including strong efforts to
reshape production regimes and the conversion of subsistence farming into more
mechanized and “economical” methods) have found great favour with states,
despite often problematic gendered implications. The forces driving these
changes come from outside (foreign investors, private capital) and also from
within (local investors, such as big merchants and political elites), so any
analysis must take into account differentiated forces of change.
