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- Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes, et al.
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Epilogue - Doing Longitudinal Research
- 2021
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Ingår i: Prosperity in Rural Africa? : Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania - Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. - 9780198865872
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes, et al.
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Ricing Fortunes : agricultural growth, farm intensification and paddy specialization in two Tanzanian villages
- 2021
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Ingår i: Prosperity in Rural Africa? : Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Tanzania - Insights into Wealth, Assets and Poverty from Tanzania. - : Oxford University PressOxford. - 9780198865872 ; , s. 237-257
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Theories of agricultural transformation commonly focus on changes in the availability of land, and the closing of land frontiers, and on the levels and sorts of technology that the changing availability of land and labour precipitate. However these theories have to take into account changing gender relations which affect the relations of production, as well as injections of capital from outside these agricultural systems. Using the AFRINT database this chapter explores the growth and flourishing of irrigated rice farming in two villages in Kilombero, Morogoro Region. It reports considerable transformations in the productivity of small-holder rice cultivation in these sites. These have followed from technological changes (mechanization and new seed varieties) as well as improved economic returns from rice. A difference emerges from these villages of not intensification driven by land scarcity, or by mechanization, but of divergent causes behind technological change including migration and new market opportunities.
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- Andersson Djurfeldt, Agnes
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Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167. ; 86, s. 16-23
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article combines perspectives from feminist agricultural economics and agrarian feminist Marxism to conceptualize the spatial process of translocality from a gender perspective arguing for the resurrection of the household as a unit of study in the context of translocality. Engendering the emerging field of translocal livelihoods research requires understanding the household both as a process, but also as an institution that upholds patriarchal control over resources and gender based norms, in relation to its members as well as the broader community. Gender roles may be renegotiated as a result of translocality but they occur in contexts that uphold broader patriarchal norms. The material, social and emotional bases for engaging in processes of translocal householding and re-negotiating gender roles differ, in relation to the livelihood options of particular households, but also with respect to broader social and economic processes.
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- Andersson Djurfeltd, Agnes, et al.
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The Gendered Possibilities for Participating in Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa – a Longitudinal Perspective from Seven Regions in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia
- 2020
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Ingår i: SSRN Electronic Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 1556-5068.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper looks at the gendered possibilities for participating in agricultural intensification in seven regions in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania, using a longitudinal, regional, mixed methods approach combining household level data on land, labour and use of agricultural techniques for male and female farm managers as well as qualitative data collected from within male-headed households and community level data. The analysis is based on a quantitative dataset covering 1070 small scale farmers covering the period 2002 to 2017/18, as well as around roughly 350 qualitative interviews collected over the course of a decade. The results point to great variation between the regions as well as the countries in terms of access to land, but also suggest that gender relations around land are changing as a result both of deliberate policies as well as the emergence of rental markets for land. Indeed, gender-based gaps in cultivated area have fallen in some regions, but are persistent in others. Surprisingly, neither tenure security nor formalisation of tenure is differentiated between male and female respondents, in any of the regions. Access to family labour is however smaller on female managed farms and labour shortages are generally higher on these farms in most regions. Capital and labour intensive technologies add to gender based differentiation in cultivated area in regions where commercial opportunities are driving intensification, whereas gender based gaps in the use of these technologies have narrowed in poor regions as a result of deteriorating conditions for male farmers.
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- Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson
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Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167. ; 93, s. 18-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Growing urban as well as rural uncertainties in sub-Saharan Africa have increased the importance of the household and kinship relations as providers of welfare and social security. Households therefore may be increasingly stretched across space. This points to the need to analyse the interplay between socio-economic differentiation and translocality. The article uses a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative longitudinal data for around 2500 smallholders in six African countries, with qualitative data from villages in three of these countries. Data on food transfers from rural areas suggests that translocality is increasing, but that the distributional aspects differ depending on income. Qualitative data is used to illustrate the non-economic aspects of such transfers, and the argument is made that transfers are based on social and emotional considerations, and as such are an expression of an intensified translocality that is increasingly part of life in both rural and urban Africa. This growing translocality suggests that the theoretical understanding of the household and familial relations may need to be updated.
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- Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson, et al.
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Sustainable agricultural intensification in four Tanzanian villages—a view from the ground and the sky
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Ingår i: Sustainability (Switzerland). - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Agricultural intensification based on smallholders is among many economists viewed as a necessary developmental path to ensure food security and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Increasingly, a one-sided focus on raising productivity in cereals has been questioned on environmental grounds, with the concept of sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) emerging from the natural sciences as a way of advancing environmental and social needs simultaneously. SAI approaches have, however, been criticized for being both conceptually and methodologically vague. This study combines socioeconomic survey data with remotely sensed land productivity data and qualitative data from four villages in Tanzania. By triangulating and comparing data collected through ground level surveys and ground-truthing with remote sensing data, we find that this combination of methods is capable of resolving some of the theoretical and methodological vagueness found in SAI approaches. The results show the problems of relying on only one type of data when studying sustainable agricultural intensification and indicate the poor environmental outcomes of cereal monocropping, even when social outcomes may be forthcoming. We identify land use practices that can be considered both socially and environmentally sustainable. Theoretically, we contribute to a further problematization of the SAI concept.
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- Kugbega, Selorm, et al.
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Gendered dynamics of state-led smallholder commercialisation in Ghana. The case of Nkoranza traditional area
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Ingår i: Journal of International Development. - : Wiley. - 1099-1328 .- 0954-1748. ; 35:5, s. 716-737
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Commercial smallholder production is touted as a mechanism for reducing rural poverty and transforming African agriculture. In line with this ideology, the Ghanaian state introduced two policies to provide incentives for commercial food and tree crop cultivation among smallholder farmers. Policy implementation is done in a blanket manner without considerations of gendered differences in agricultural asset distribution, such as land, and the particular sociocultural opportunities and constraints men and women face in undertaking commercial production. The paper investigates these gendered trajectories using a qualitative methodology. Results reveal the varied nature of women's constraints and related levels of vulnerability. Although native women are structurally disadvantaged in commercial food crop production, tree crop commercialisation presents an opportunity for them to reclaim dormant land rights safeguarded by their male kin. These results provide perspective for considering gender-sensitive agricultural incentives as well as potential for leveraging on the tree crop sector for attaining gender neutrality.
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