L Addison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5659 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Addison |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Addison |
| ASSINATURA | ADDISON L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4088-108X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From negotiated to covert
This article examines married women’s agency in marketing and income use for staple crops grown on jointly held fields in four African countries: cowpea in Ghana, maize in South Africa and Kenya, and matooke banana in Uganda. The article is based on a series of workshops in each country in which small-scale farmers participated in focus group discussions and a participatory mapping of value chains. Our results show that in Ghana and South Africa,…
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda
Tissue culture banana is promoted as a form of micro-propagation that can aid farmers in managing pests and disease in Uganda, the country with the largest per capita consumption of banana in the world. But uptake amongst smallholder farmers remains low. This study recruited 71 farmers from five banana-growing districts in Uganda to assess how gender dynamics of matooke production impact the adoption and sustained use of tissue culture. We collab…
Amplifying invisibility
How does the COVID‐19 pandemic impact migrant worker visibility? This paper examines how the pandemic underscores the invisibility of Zimbabwean migrant farm workers employed at ZZ2, one of the largest commercial farms in South Africa. I argue that Zimbabweans are made invisible in three ways. First, employer and state restrictions on mobility, alongside rising xenophobia in South Africa, leave migrant workers hyper‐visible to ZZ2 management, yet…
Women’s Empowerment in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Grounding the Ground of Politics
Rutherford's book is a tour de force that offers a fresh perspective on Zimbabwean politics. He rejects the binary through which Zimbabwe is often interpreted-as either a struggle for social justice ("politics of liberation") or human rights and liberal democracy ("politics of oppression"). Instead, through the case of the labour dispute at Upfumi farm, Rutherford demonstrates how politics is cross-cut by different matrices of power and frequentl…
Limits to biofortification
Biofortifying staple crops with enhanced nutritional content has been touted as a means of addressing micronutrient deficiency and has emerged as a key component of the Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A). In Uganda, biofortification efforts have centered on utilizing genetic modification (GM) as a means of enhancing the East African Highland Banana, known locally as matooke. This paper draws on three data sets to evaluate whether this technologic…
The fragility of empowerment
This article examines the fragility of women's empowerment in Sovelele, a resettlement area established through Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform programme. Compared to their lives before resettlement, married women have larger plots allocated to them by husbands, exercise a higher degree of control over surplus grain and experience more joint use of resources. Single women can more easily buy and hold land in their own right. Yet, these gains ar…
Chiefs of the Plantation
Growing burdens? Disease-resistant genetically modified bananas and the potential gendered implications for labor in Uganda
Introduction to symposium on labor, gender and new sources of agrarian change
Winelands, wealth and work
How have rural areas in South Africa changed since the end of apartheid? Winelands, Wealth and Work: Transformations in the Dwars River Valley brings fresh insight to this question. Contributors to
Delegated Despotism
How do labour regimes change as large-scale agriculture depends increasingly on temporary labour? TheSouthAfrican side of theLimpopo River, which marks its border withZimbabwe, is populated with large-scale fruit and vegetable farms that are heavily dependent on temporary labour. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted on a border farm in 2009-10, the paper explores howZimbabwean managers are central to the control of labour in this area. As t…
The Sexual Economy, Gender Relations and Narratives of Infant Death on a Tomato Farm inNorthernSouthAfrica
Based on an extended case study of a large-scale tomato farm in northern Limpopo province, the paper examines how the restructuring of agriculture transforms the sexual economy through shifts in the composition of labour and management practices on farms in this area. The employment ofZimbabwean migrants, rather than relatively permanentVenda families, suggests a potentially greater variety of people participating in the sexual economy. While fam…
Zimbabwean Farm Workers in Northern South Africa
This article analyses the precarious livelihoods of Zimbabweans working on commercial farms in northern South Africa. Based on research carried out in 2004 and 2005, we examine how these Zimbabweans seek pathways of survival and, for a few, potential accumulation across space, sectors, and international boundaries. The article analyses how these Zimbabwean farm workers are situated in an ambivalent legal terrain, the neo-liberal restructuring of …
Zimbabwean Farm Workers in Northern South Africa
This article analyses the precarious livelihoods of Zimbabweans working on commercial farms in northern South Africa. Based on research carried out in 2004 and 2005, we examine how these Zimbabweans seek pathways of survival and, for a few, potential accumulation across space, sectors, and international boundaries. The article analyses how these Zimbabwean farm workers are situated in an ambivalent legal terrain, the neo-liberal restructuring of …
Introduction to symposium on labor, gender and new sources of agrarian change
Limits to biofortification
Biofortifying staple crops with enhanced nutritional content has been touted as a means of addressing micronutrient deficiency and has emerged as a key component of the Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A). In Uganda, biofortification efforts have centered on utilizing genetic modification (GM) as a means of enhancing the East African Highland Banana, known locally as matooke. This paper draws on three data sets to evaluate whether this technologic…
Growing burdens? Disease-resistant genetically modified bananas and the potential gendered implications for labor in Uganda
Chiefs of the Plantation
Delegated Despotism
How do labour regimes change as large-scale agriculture depends increasingly on temporary labour? TheSouthAfrican side of theLimpopo River, which marks its border withZimbabwe, is populated with large-scale fruit and vegetable farms that are heavily dependent on temporary labour. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted on a border farm in 2009-10, the paper explores howZimbabwean managers are central to the control of labour in this area. As t…
Women’s Empowerment in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Sexual Economy, Gender Relations and Narratives of Infant Death on a Tomato Farm inNorthernSouthAfrica
Based on an extended case study of a large-scale tomato farm in northern Limpopo province, the paper examines how the restructuring of agriculture transforms the sexual economy through shifts in the composition of labour and management practices on farms in this area. The employment ofZimbabwean migrants, rather than relatively permanentVenda families, suggests a potentially greater variety of people participating in the sexual economy. While fam…
The fragility of empowerment
This article examines the fragility of women's empowerment in Sovelele, a resettlement area established through Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform programme. Compared to their lives before resettlement, married women have larger plots allocated to them by husbands, exercise a higher degree of control over surplus grain and experience more joint use of resources. Single women can more easily buy and hold land in their own right. Yet, these gains ar…
Winelands, wealth and work
How have rural areas in South Africa changed since the end of apartheid? Winelands, Wealth and Work: Transformations in the Dwars River Valley brings fresh insight to this question. Contributors to
Zimbabwean Farm Workers in Northern South Africa
This article analyses the precarious livelihoods of Zimbabweans working on commercial farms in northern South Africa. Based on research carried out in 2004 and 2005, we examine how these Zimbabweans seek pathways of survival and, for a few, potential accumulation across space, sectors, and international boundaries. The article analyses how these Zimbabwean farm workers are situated in an ambivalent legal terrain, the neo-liberal restructuring of …
Delegated Despotism
How do labour regimes change as large-scale agriculture depends increasingly on temporary labour? TheSouthAfrican side of theLimpopo River, which marks its border withZimbabwe, is populated with large-scale fruit and vegetable farms that are heavily dependent on temporary labour. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted on a border farm in 2009-10, the paper explores howZimbabwean managers are central to the control of labour in this area. As t…
The Sexual Economy, Gender Relations and Narratives of Infant Death on a Tomato Farm inNorthernSouthAfrica
Based on an extended case study of a large-scale tomato farm in northern Limpopo province, the paper examines how the restructuring of agriculture transforms the sexual economy through shifts in the composition of labour and management practices on farms in this area. The employment ofZimbabwean migrants, rather than relatively permanentVenda families, suggests a potentially greater variety of people participating in the sexual economy. While fam…
Growing burdens? Disease-resistant genetically modified bananas and the potential gendered implications for labor in Uganda
Introduction to symposium on labor, gender and new sources of agrarian change
Winelands, wealth and work
How have rural areas in South Africa changed since the end of apartheid? Winelands, Wealth and Work: Transformations in the Dwars River Valley brings fresh insight to this question. Contributors to
The fragility of empowerment
This article examines the fragility of women's empowerment in Sovelele, a resettlement area established through Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform programme. Compared to their lives before resettlement, married women have larger plots allocated to them by husbands, exercise a higher degree of control over surplus grain and experience more joint use of resources. Single women can more easily buy and hold land in their own right. Yet, these gains ar…
Chiefs of the Plantation
Limits to biofortification
Biofortifying staple crops with enhanced nutritional content has been touted as a means of addressing micronutrient deficiency and has emerged as a key component of the Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A). In Uganda, biofortification efforts have centered on utilizing genetic modification (GM) as a means of enhancing the East African Highland Banana, known locally as matooke. This paper draws on three data sets to evaluate whether this technologic…
Women’s Empowerment in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Grounding the Ground of Politics
Rutherford's book is a tour de force that offers a fresh perspective on Zimbabwean politics. He rejects the binary through which Zimbabwe is often interpreted-as either a struggle for social justice ("politics of liberation") or human rights and liberal democracy ("politics of oppression"). Instead, through the case of the labour dispute at Upfumi farm, Rutherford demonstrates how politics is cross-cut by different matrices of power and frequentl…
Amplifying invisibility
How does the COVID‐19 pandemic impact migrant worker visibility? This paper examines how the pandemic underscores the invisibility of Zimbabwean migrant farm workers employed at ZZ2, one of the largest commercial farms in South Africa. I argue that Zimbabweans are made invisible in three ways. First, employer and state restrictions on mobility, alongside rising xenophobia in South Africa, leave migrant workers hyper‐visible to ZZ2 management, yet…
The gendered value chain of matooke banana and its implications for tissue culture adoption in Uganda
Tissue culture banana is promoted as a form of micro-propagation that can aid farmers in managing pests and disease in Uganda, the country with the largest per capita consumption of banana in the world. But uptake amongst smallholder farmers remains low. This study recruited 71 farmers from five banana-growing districts in Uganda to assess how gender dynamics of matooke production impact the adoption and sustained use of tissue culture. We collab…
From negotiated to covert
This article examines married women’s agency in marketing and income use for staple crops grown on jointly held fields in four African countries: cowpea in Ghana, maize in South Africa and Kenya, and matooke banana in Uganda. The article is based on a series of workshops in each country in which small-scale farmers participated in focus group discussions and a participatory mapping of value chains. Our results show that in Ghana and South Africa,…
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