Wrestling with race and colonialism in Caribbean agriculture: Toward a (food) sovereign and (gender) just future

Barry, Tessa, Gahman, Levi, Greenidge, Adaeze and Mohamed, Atiyah (2020) Wrestling with race and colonialism in Caribbean agriculture: Toward a (food) sovereign and (gender) just future. GEOFORUM, 109. pp. 106-110.

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Abstract

This piece seeks to add to recent conversations that lie at the nexus of agricultural production, neoliberal logics, and plantation legacies in the Caribbean. Our primary thesis is that the region's food system status quo, one in which increasing rates of underperformance, import dependency, food insecurity, and poor nutrition are being reported by regional and international agencies, is compromised due to patriarchal norms, gender essentialisms, ongoing neo-colonial social relations, and the historical trajectory of the plantation. In doing so, we focus on the structural barriers and systemic marginalisation faced by women farmers in the Anglo-Caribbean, with an emphasis on Agricultural Extension Services (AES). Our key assertion is that gender, power relations, and patriarchal worldviews are significant contributing factors to the challenges the Caribbean faces apropos its food system and warrant further critical attention.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Caribbean, Plantation, Agriculture, Social reproduction, Gender justice, Food systems
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2020 08:42
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 00:11
DOI:	10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.12.018
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3069197