Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction
This presentation highlights a 2023 scoping review of literature of studies conducted in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused on the way women’s labor and productivity is conceptualized in the value-chain approach in agri-food systems. The review argues that ev...
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International Rice Research Institute
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| author | Bindu, Chandana Rajasekharan |
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| description | This presentation highlights a 2023 scoping review of literature of studies conducted in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused on the way women’s labor and productivity is conceptualized in the value-chain approach in agri-food systems. The review argues that even in interventions designed to be gender transformative, productivity gains are assessed in terms of extracting more economic value per unit of input factors. They do not consider the nodes as sites of social and societal reproduction and, consequently, ignore the care and affective labor that women perform to maintain them. This is significant because a-economic labor is consequently not considered while calculating total factor productivity and results in potentially false narratives of interventions producing Pareto gains. Some interventions utilize a methodological individualist lens that only considers the behavior of the communities and groups as the aggregate of the behavior of the individuals. Consequently, interventions that may not provide significant benefits at the individual level, but transform social norms, might be categorized as unsuccessful. Together, this results in monitoring and evaluation frameworks that privilege individual economic gains, discounting trade-offs in other forms of non-economic labor or impact on community well-being. The review calls for a framework for a comprehensive evaluation of inputs and outputs, including economic inputs and impact at the community level. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1369992024-01-05T02:01:03Z Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction Bindu, Chandana Rajasekharan gender agriculture research value chains This presentation highlights a 2023 scoping review of literature of studies conducted in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused on the way women’s labor and productivity is conceptualized in the value-chain approach in agri-food systems. The review argues that even in interventions designed to be gender transformative, productivity gains are assessed in terms of extracting more economic value per unit of input factors. They do not consider the nodes as sites of social and societal reproduction and, consequently, ignore the care and affective labor that women perform to maintain them. This is significant because a-economic labor is consequently not considered while calculating total factor productivity and results in potentially false narratives of interventions producing Pareto gains. Some interventions utilize a methodological individualist lens that only considers the behavior of the communities and groups as the aggregate of the behavior of the individuals. Consequently, interventions that may not provide significant benefits at the individual level, but transform social norms, might be categorized as unsuccessful. Together, this results in monitoring and evaluation frameworks that privilege individual economic gains, discounting trade-offs in other forms of non-economic labor or impact on community well-being. The review calls for a framework for a comprehensive evaluation of inputs and outputs, including economic inputs and impact at the community level. 2023-10-10 2024-01-04T12:46:44Z 2024-01-04T12:46:44Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/136999 en Open Access application/pdf International Rice Research Institute Bindu, Chandana Rajasekharan. 2023. Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction. Poster. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. International Rice Research Institute |
| spellingShingle | gender agriculture research value chains Bindu, Chandana Rajasekharan Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| title | Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| title_full | Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| title_fullStr | Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| title_short | Reimagining agri-value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| title_sort | reimagining agri value chains as sites of social and societal reproduction |
| topic | gender agriculture research value chains |
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