Gender and the Global Land Grab

A Feminist Global Governance Approach

Andrea M. Collins

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9780228021704
• Print ISBN:
  9780228021131
• Subtopic: Agricultural Public Policy

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are especially disadvantaged by the global land grab: they are less likely to inherit, control, or make decisions over land, but often need land to support themselves, their families, and their communities. While international organizations have developed global guidelines to improve land governance, tensions still run high as the current policies fall short.

Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist conceptual framework to analyze land governance policy around the world. Andrea Collins shows how gender norms, biases, and expectations shape land politics at different levels of governance. Drawing on examples from sub-Saharan Africa and with an in-depth case study of land politics in Tanzania, the book assesses guidelines developed by institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank to highlight essential considerations for developing and implementing gender-sensitive policy.

Illustrating how gender shapes resource policy across all levels of political activity, Gender and the Global Land Grab provides valuable tools for transforming global policymaking.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figure and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 A New Framework for Analyzing Gender and Global Land Governance
• 2 Local Obstacles, Global Trends: Gender and Land Governance in Africa
• 3 Gender and Multi-level Land Governance: Tanzania in Focus
• 4 “Empowerment” as Efficiency: Gender and Responsible Agricultural Investment
• 5 Contested Concepts: Gender in the United Nations Committee for World Food Security
• 6 Prospects for Feminist Global Land Governance
• Conclusion: An Agenda for Feminist Research in Global Governance
• Notes
• References
• Index