The gender gap in agricultural productivity in eastern and southern Africa: quantitative and qualitative determinants
ZoomHAROON AKRAM-LODHI (Trent University, Ontario) Rural economies are strongly and pervasively gendered. Women and men farmers do not always face the same production conditions, nor do they always make the same production choices. They consequently do not always have similar levels of agricultural productivity. This paper is a mixed-methods exploration of the causes of gender…
The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour
ZoomLYN OSSOME (Institute for Economic Justice, Johannesburg) The gendered nature of exploitation attached to social reproduction in the process of agrarian transitions continues to preoccupy feminist agrarian scholarship. In that tradition, this paper explores some conceptual dimensions of gendered labour by focusing on labour processes associated with rural and agrarian economies through a theoretical exploration…
Agribusiness expansion and social reproduction in the Chaco Region, Argentina: The everlasting promise of development
ZoomCARLA GRAS (National University of San Martín, Buenos Aires) Drawing upon fieldwork in the south-east of the Chaco Region in Argentina, a major agricultural frontier, this presentation focuses on two main topics: (i) how large-scale firms are managing current economic and ecological constraints affecting expanded capital accumulation; (ii) how changing strategies of capital accumulation are…
Peasant movements and agrarian change in 21st century Pakistan
ZoomNoaman G Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences) Yahya Aftab (Independent scholar and activist) The first two decades of the 21st century in Pakistan witnessed dramatic rural social and political mobilizations. Whereas the Anjuman Mazareen-e Punjab (Tenants’ Association of Punjab) and the Pakistan Kisan Ittehad (Pakistan Farmers’ Union) posed their identity and objectives in occupational…
Cheap meat and incalculable costs
ZoomToni Weis (University of Western Ontario) CANCELLED AS IT FALLS ON A UCU STRIKE DAY
Autonomy as an agrarian strategy? – a roundtable discussion
ZoomKees Jansen (Wageningen University) Alice Guimarães (Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz) Leandro Vergara-Camus (Université de l'Ontario Français, Ontario) https://youtu.be/Nb2_jZRabTQ
Agroecology and the agrarian question in the twenty-first century: The ties that bind?
ZoomHaroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent University) https://youtu.be/kQyW0ZlVq7o
Cheap meat and incalculable costs
ZoomTony Weis (University of Western Ontario) https://youtu.be/nqiNrGcY3cs
Land rents and accumulation in late-industrialisation: anxieties of ‘class’ in rural India
ZoomMihika Chatterjee (University of Oxford) https://youtu.be/DUmNSTSr8lk
Neoliberalism in Indian Agriculture & the Struggle against the Farm Laws
Bancroft Room 3.26 Bancroft Building, QMUL, Mile End Campus, LondonR Ramakumar (Professor, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai & Distinguished Visiting Fellow, School of Business & Management, Queen Mary University of London) In November 2021, the farmer struggles in India met with unprecedented success when the Union government of India withdrew three bills that were seen as a threat to…