Twenty years of gender equality research: A scoping review based on a new semantic indicator

P Belingheri, F Chiarello, A Fronzetti Colladon… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Gender equality is a major problem that places women at a disadvantage thereby stymieing
economic growth and societal advancement. In the last two decades, extensive research …

Bitter sugarification: sugar frontier and contract farming in Uganda

G Martiniello - Globalizations, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contract farming schemes have recently been portrayed by global development agencies as
an alternative to 'land grabs', promoting processes of inclusive development through the …

Smallholder farmers' dissatisfaction with contract schemes in spite of economic benefits: Issues of mistrust and lack of transparency

A Ruml, M Qaim - The Journal of Development Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contract farming is typically seen as a useful mechanism to help smallholders in overcoming
market access constraints. However, in spite of economic benefits, high smallholder dropout …

The implications of sugarcane contract farming on land rights, labor, and food security in the Bunyoro sub-region, Uganda

I Bahati, G Martiniello, GK Abebe - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the years, the Ugandan government had been promoting agricultural
commercialization to become a middle-income economy by 2020. In 2012, the president …

[HTML][HTML] Facilitating women's access to an economic empowerment initiative: Evidence from Uganda

K Ambler, K Jones, M O'Sullivan - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women's economic
empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic …

The “gender agenda” in agriculture for development and its (lack of) alignment with feminist scholarship

K Farhall, L Rickards - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sustainable food systems require sustainable agriculture. To achieve this, we argue,
inclusive approaches are required that incorporate the voices and lived experiences of …

Institutional determinants of large land-based investments' performance in Zambia: Does title enhance productivity and structural transformation?

DA Ali, K Deininger - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
The importance of well-functioning land markets for structural transformation via labor
movements to the non-agricultural sector, farm size growth, and the ability to use land as …

The drama of the grabbed commons: Anti-politics machine and local responses

JD Gerber, T Haller - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the nexus between old and new commons, anti-politics, and Corporate
Social Responsibility measures in the context of on-going land grabbing. Detailed case …

Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration–Mango production in Malawi as a test case

L Kalvelage, C Hardie, K Mausch… - Outlook on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Starting from the observation that value chain research has informed much of agricultural
development interventions in recent decades, this paper identifies five key challenges to …

The fragmented politics of sugarcane contract farming in Uganda

G Martiniello, A Owor, I Bahati… - Journal of Agrarian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, contract farming has regained momentum among policymakers and
global development agencies as a tool to promote inclusive rural development and …