Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa Barry ◽  
Levi Gahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Food System ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Women In Agriculture

Agrarian struggle and food system injustice in the Anglo-Caribbean: centering social reproduction by (re)turning to Creft and Fanon

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Tessa Barry ◽  
Levi Gahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Food System ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Emancipatory Praxis ◽  
And Gender

This piece offers a critical commentary on the historical-systemic marginalization and food system injustice being experienced by women farmers, agro-producers, and cottage industry owners in the Caribbean. In doing so, we provide an overview of the structural barriers and systemic negligence rural working-class and cash-poor women across the Anglo-Caribbean face as a result of the ongoing trajectories of colonialism, neoliberal logics, and patriarchal norms. In addition, the piece details the disproportionate amount of (devalued) socially reproductive labor women perform within the agrarian Majority World. We end by proposing that the radical potentials, emancipatory praxis, and clarion calls for transformative change offered by the region’s very own Jacqueline Creft and Frantz Fanon are revolutionary voices to pay heed to with respect to advancing a sustainable and (gender) just Caribbean future.

Provisioning the Posho: Labor Migration and Working-Class Food Systems on the Early-Colonial Kenyan Coast

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Devin Smart
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Local Study

AbstractEngaging questions about social reproduction, migrant labor, and food provisioning, this article examines the emergence of a working-class food system on the coast of Kenya during the early decades of the twentieth century. Like elsewhere in Africa, labor migrants in Kenya's port city of Mombasa and on nearby plantations were provisioned with food rations, which were part of what Patrick Harries calls a “racial paternalism” that structured many labor relations during the colonial period. The article starts in rural Kenya, but then follows labor migrants to their places of employment to examine the formation of this new food system. In upcountry rural societies, women had primarily produced and then exclusively prepared their communities’ food. However, as migrants, men received a ration (posho) of maize meal or rice as part of their pay, used their cash wages to purchase foodstuffs from nearby markets, and some plantation workers were also able to grow their own vegetables on plots allocated by their employers. After acquiring their food through these wage-labor relations, men then had to cook their meals themselves. In addition the cuisine created by labor migration was one of extreme monotony compared to what these migrants ate in their rural communities, but I also show how food became a point of conflict between management and labor. The article demonstrates how workers successfully pressured their employers to improve the quantity and quality of their rations from the 1910s to the 1920s, while also raising their wages that allowed them to purchase better food. I additionally argue that during this period an “urban” or “rural” context did not fundamentally define how migrant workers acquired their food, as those laboring in both city and countryside received these rations. However, the article concludes by examining how after 1930, economic transformations changed Mombasa's food system so that workers became almost entirely reliant on cash and credit as the way they acquired their daily meals, while paternalism continued to infuse the food systems of rural migrant laborers. In sum, this article is a local study of coastal Kenya that is also concerned with global questions about how food provisioning fits into the social reproduction of working classes in industrial and colonial capitalism.

scholarly journals Governance of knowledge and innovation in the Ibero-American agri-food system

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. e0112
Author(s):  
Jose-Maria Garcia-Alvarez-Coque ◽  
Eugenia Saini ◽  
Esther Esteban-Rodrigo ◽  
Francisco Mas-Verdu
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Food System ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Organizational Evaluation ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
And Gender

Aim of study: Governance and the knowledge and innovation system (KIS) are interrelated concepts. Knowledge management best practices are linked to KIS performance. This article explores the governance of the leading research, development, and innovation institutes in Ibero-American agriculture, food, and agro-industry sector. The paper reports mapping of the governance of 20 agricultural research institutes.Area of study: Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.Material and methods: In total, 51 strategic objectives for effective governance were identified. Self-evaluation by the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) was validated at a workshop backed by FONTAGRO, a cooperation mechanism amongst Latin American and the Caribbean countries, Portugal and Spain, and the Ibero-American Network of NARIs.Main results: As a strength, the key dimension of NARIs appears to be coordination and cooperation. This result was acknowledged in the internal and external evaluations and supports previous research on the relevance of innovation networks in Latin America. By contrast, as a challenge, the key dimension appears to be demand articulation, followed closely by capacity building. Most of the institutes are also well-positioned to develop deeper ties with social and environmental challenges.Research highlights: In the medium and long term, NARIs should make efforts to improve the processes of organizational evaluation and learning, demand articulation, and strategic direction of the institutions. Improvement in management processes, in addition to best practices social responsibility and gender equality, appear to be short-term priorities.

scholarly journals Collaboration for social innovation in the agri-food system in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. e0112-e0112
Author(s):  
Verónica Piñeiro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Food System ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Caribbean

Aim of study: This study reviews the state of the art of collaboration for social innovation in food and rural systems. The analysis focuses on cooperation by farms and agro-industry companies. The purpose is to identify not only the state of the art of this research topic but also the main authors, the countries where these studies are conducted and the dynamics of research networks in relation to these topics. Area of study: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Material and methods: The Web of Science database was used to search for articles containing the terms ‘cooperation’, ‘networks’, ‘innovation’, ‘social’, ‘rural’ and ‘LAC’. Using VOSviewer network creation and analysis software, maps of citations, co-authorship, co-citations and co-occurrence of key-words were created and analysed. Content analysis was then performed. Finally, the research areas that the authors of the analysed articles consider to be of interest for future research were identified.

scholarly journals Notes on a Rastafari Yard-Space in Urban Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelene Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Household Production ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The City ◽  
Culture Concept

Abstract The significance of the yard or household in social reproduction within the diasporic Caribbean is the focus of this essay. I outline how a Rastafari yard-space is shaped through household production and family formation among diasporic Caribbean peoples within intercultural households and families. This discussion is foregrounded in Rastafari migration or “repatriation” from the Caribbean to the symbolic land grant in Ethiopia. Two intercultural households will be compared: one located in a local Ethiopian neighbourhood in the city of Shashamane and one in the predominantly Rastafari Jamaica Safar or Jamaica neighbourhood of Shashamane. Primarily drawing on my ethnographic observations, this discussion will situate Rastafari positionalities in terms of social, spatial and subjective articulations of inclusion and exclusion, adding to a discussion of the culture concept in the anthropology of the Caribbean.

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