Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa

Reconceptualising gendered agricultural value chains

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4643279
AutoresHeidi Gengenbach (0000-0002-7783-9870, Department of History University of Massachusetts Boston Boston MA USA, autor correspondente), Rachel Schurman (0000-0003-2327-7021, University of Minnesota), Rachel A Schurman (Department of Sociology and Institute for Global Studies University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA), Thomas J Bassett (0000-0002-7536-2108, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign Urbana IL USA), William Munro (0000-0002-0760-0397, Illinois Wesleyan University), William A Munro (Department of Political Science Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington IL USA), William G Moseley (0000-0003-0662-962X, Department of Geography Macalester College St Paul MN USA)
Ano2018
Volume184
Fascículo2
Páginas208-214
Data de publicação2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12233
OpenAlexW2763757446
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas40
Referências citadas21

In order to address food insecurity, the New Green Revolution for Africa (GR4A) promotes tighter integration of African smallholder farmers, especially women, into formal markets via value chains to improve farmers' input access and to encourage the sale of crop surpluses. This commentary offers a theoretical and practical critique of the GR4A model, drawing on early findings from a five-year study of value chain initiatives in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mozambique. It highlights the limitations of a model that views heightened market interactions as uniformly beneficial for smallholder farmers. We challenge the notion that there is a broadly similar and replicable process for the construction of markets and the development of gender-sensitive value chains in all recipient countries. Instead we build upon the feminist network political ecology and coproduction literatures to conceptualise value chains as complex assemblages co-produced by a broad set of actors, including socially differentiated farmers

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