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Gendering the Political Economy of Smallholder Agriculture: A Scoping Review

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  • Madelyn Clark

    (Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA)

  • Shashika Bandara

    (Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada)

  • Stella Bialous

    (School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA)

  • Kathleen Rice

    (Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada)

  • Raphael Lencucha

    (School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada)

Abstract

Gender plays a prominent role in shaping the practices and experiences of smallholding farming households. This scoping review seeks to chart and analyze how gender is used in the existing literature on the political economy of smallholder agriculture. The aim of this review is to first identify the extent to which gender is addressed as a unit of analysis in this body of literature, and second, to identify when and how gender is incorporated in this body of literature. The limited work on this topic may be due to a variety of factors, the most notable of which is the failure of political economy literature to attend to the small scale and the limited attention paid to the social dynamics of women and men in farming households. Classical political economy frameworks tend to dismiss micro-processes and trends in favor of macro-structural conditions. Included articles approach gender in two distinct ways: empirical (which frames gender as a binary unit of analysis, i.e., man–woman) and analytic (a construction that operates in different ways in different contexts). This review provides a nuanced understanding of how gendered identities produce and are produced by political economy, and how political economy shapes and is shaped by gender and household dynamics.

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  • Madelyn Clark & Shashika Bandara & Stella Bialous & Kathleen Rice & Raphael Lencucha, 2023. "Gendering the Political Economy of Smallholder Agriculture: A Scoping Review," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-15, May.
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