Poul Wisborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 108405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Poul Wisborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Poul |
| FAMILY NAME | Wisborg |
| SIGNATURE | WISBORG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8550-407X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding
Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding teams are expected to use ‘market-based’ approaches to design more ‘demand-led’ and ‘gender-responsive’ crop varieties. Based on an institutional ethnography that includes high-profile development-oriented breeding initiatives, we unpack these terms using perspectives from political agronomy and femi…
Coffee, child labour, and education
In biodiversity rich agriculture–forest moasic landscapes in south-western Ethiopia, the production of coffee and food crops, including guarding them from forest-dwelling mammals, requires a high input of labour, which is supplied partly by children. Through field observations and interviews with smallholders, we studied the extent of children’s participation in coffee production and food crop guarding, its impact on school attendance and implica…
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry
This article critically analyses the history of the Ethiopian sugar industry, with emphasis on drivers, decision-making and processes of incorporation and exclusion aiming to transform lowlands. We argue that the government has used a state-led modernization and expansion of the sugar industry to consolidate the power of central governments. Through the creation of sugar-based agribusinesses, the changing regimes have sought to extend their contr…
Transnational Land Deals and Gender Equality
Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land deals. While global policy literature manifests growing attention to women in agriculture, the review found the analysis of gender in early policy initiatives to be absent or weak. Utilitarian argumen…
Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power
Large-scale transnational land acquisition of agricultural land in the global south by rich corporations or countries raises challenging normative questions. In this article, the author critically examines and advocates a human rights approach to these questions. Mutually reinforcing, policies, governance and practice promote equitable and secure land tenure that in turn, strengthens other human rights, such as to employment, livelihood and food.…
Farm Workers and Farm Dwellers inLimpopo Province,SouthAfrica
One of the less studied legacies of settler colonialism and agrarian dualism inSouthAfrica is the substantial population of people living and working on (still mostly) white-owned commercial farms - a feature distinct from most other countries inSouthernAfrica. Many farm workers and farm dwellers inSouthAfrica experience precarious tenure, and poor housing and labour conditions. This paper explores what is happening to farm labour and to agricult…
Development Ethics’
2010 Farnham: Ashgate Development was a handier term when it meant modernisation and economic growth, and there was little doubt who was ahead and who was behind, but that is soon a long time ago
Land Reform, Range Ecology, and Carrying Capacities in Namaqualand, South Africa
In South African rangeland management, there is a long history of using the notion of carrying capacity as a central planning tool for environmental conservation and agricultural modernization. Today, in the new South Africa, the “need” for livestock keepers to adhere to a defined carrying capacity in order to conserve rangeland resources and to achieve economic development remains an institutionalized “fact.” In this article, we use interviews, …
Land Reform, Range Ecology, and Carrying Capacities in Namaqualand, South Africa
In South African rangeland management, there is a long history of using the notion of carrying capacity as a central planning tool for environmental conservation and agricultural modernization. Today, in the new South Africa, the “need” for livestock keepers to adhere to a defined carrying capacity in order to conserve rangeland resources and to achieve economic development remains an institutionalized “fact.” In this article, we use interviews, …
Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power
Large-scale transnational land acquisition of agricultural land in the global south by rich corporations or countries raises challenging normative questions. In this article, the author critically examines and advocates a human rights approach to these questions. Mutually reinforcing, policies, governance and practice promote equitable and secure land tenure that in turn, strengthens other human rights, such as to employment, livelihood and food.…
Farm Workers and Farm Dwellers inLimpopo Province,SouthAfrica
One of the less studied legacies of settler colonialism and agrarian dualism inSouthAfrica is the substantial population of people living and working on (still mostly) white-owned commercial farms - a feature distinct from most other countries inSouthernAfrica. Many farm workers and farm dwellers inSouthAfrica experience precarious tenure, and poor housing and labour conditions. This paper explores what is happening to farm labour and to agricult…
Transnational Land Deals and Gender Equality
Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land deals. While global policy literature manifests growing attention to women in agriculture, the review found the analysis of gender in early policy initiatives to be absent or weak. Utilitarian argumen…
Land Reform, Range Ecology, and Carrying Capacities in Namaqualand, South Africa
In South African rangeland management, there is a long history of using the notion of carrying capacity as a central planning tool for environmental conservation and agricultural modernization. Today, in the new South Africa, the “need” for livestock keepers to adhere to a defined carrying capacity in order to conserve rangeland resources and to achieve economic development remains an institutionalized “fact.” In this article, we use interviews, …
Development Ethics’
2010 Farnham: Ashgate Development was a handier term when it meant modernisation and economic growth, and there was little doubt who was ahead and who was behind, but that is soon a long time ago
Transnational Land Deals and Gender Equality
Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land deals. While global policy literature manifests growing attention to women in agriculture, the review found the analysis of gender in early policy initiatives to be absent or weak. Utilitarian argumen…
Human Rights Against Land Grabbing? A Reflection on Norms, Policies, and Power
Large-scale transnational land acquisition of agricultural land in the global south by rich corporations or countries raises challenging normative questions. In this article, the author critically examines and advocates a human rights approach to these questions. Mutually reinforcing, policies, governance and practice promote equitable and secure land tenure that in turn, strengthens other human rights, such as to employment, livelihood and food.…
Farm Workers and Farm Dwellers inLimpopo Province,SouthAfrica
One of the less studied legacies of settler colonialism and agrarian dualism inSouthAfrica is the substantial population of people living and working on (still mostly) white-owned commercial farms - a feature distinct from most other countries inSouthernAfrica. Many farm workers and farm dwellers inSouthAfrica experience precarious tenure, and poor housing and labour conditions. This paper explores what is happening to farm labour and to agricult…
Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding
Advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agriculture is a recognised development goal, also within crop breeding. Increasingly, breeding teams are expected to use ‘market-based’ approaches to design more ‘demand-led’ and ‘gender-responsive’ crop varieties. Based on an institutional ethnography that includes high-profile development-oriented breeding initiatives, we unpack these terms using perspectives from political agronomy and femi…
Coffee, child labour, and education
In biodiversity rich agriculture–forest moasic landscapes in south-western Ethiopia, the production of coffee and food crops, including guarding them from forest-dwelling mammals, requires a high input of labour, which is supplied partly by children. Through field observations and interviews with smallholders, we studied the extent of children’s participation in coffee production and food crop guarding, its impact on school attendance and implica…
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry
This article critically analyses the history of the Ethiopian sugar industry, with emphasis on drivers, decision-making and processes of incorporation and exclusion aiming to transform lowlands. We argue that the government has used a state-led modernization and expansion of the sugar industry to consolidate the power of central governments. Through the creation of sugar-based agribusinesses, the changing regimes have sought to extend their contr…
Political science (7 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works)