Gender Equity in Certified Chains

Confronting the coffee crisis : can fair trade, organic, and specialty coffees reduce small-scale farmer vulnerability in northern Nicaragua?

Bacon, Christopher | 2005
  • Author(s): Bacon, Christopher
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 497--511
  • Keywords: coffee, small farms, agricultural product marketing, social justice, nicaragua, latin america
This paper links changing global coffee markets to opportunities and vulnerabilities for sustaining small-scale farmer livelihoods in Nicaragua. It suggests that participation in organic and Fair Trade networks reduces farmers’ livelihood vulnerability.

Gender, flexibility and global value chains

Barrientos, Stephanie | [2000]
  • Author(s): Barrientos, Stephanie
  • Publisher: Microenterprise learning information and knowledge sharing (Microlinks)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, gender, gender mainstreaming, working conditions, horticulture, women workers, south africa, latin america, chile
The author discusses that the analysis of value chains needs to incorporate gender as an essential element . The paper focuses is on the employment and retail ends of a buyer-driven chain, using the horticulture value chain linking Chile and South Africa to Europe as a specific example.

A gendered value chain approach to codes of conduct in African horticulture

Barrientos, Stephanie Ware and Dolan, Catherine and Tallontire, Anne | 2003
  • Author(s): Barrientos, Stephanie Ware and Dolan, Catherine and Tallontire, Anne
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 1511--1526
  • Keywords: women, gender, women workers, small farms, gender mainstreaming, floriculture, horticulture, fruit culture, informal sector, codes of conduct, kenya, south africa, zambia
The author explores through this article the gender sensitivity of codes applied in the African export horticulture sector from an analytical perspective that combines global value chain and gendered economy approaches.

Gender and ethical trade : a mapping of the issues in African horticulture

Barrientos, Stephanie Ware and Dolan, Catherine and Tallontire, Anne | 2001
  • Author(s): Barrientos, Stephanie Ware and Dolan, Catherine and Tallontire, Anne
  • Publisher: University of Greenwich. Natural resources institute (NRI)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender, horticulture, women workers, kenya, south africa, zambia
This paper presents an initial mapping of gender and ethical trade in export horticulture in South Africa, Kenya and Zambia. These countries have expanding horticulture sectors that generate significant levels of local employment, a high percentage of which is female.

Integrating poverty, gender and environmental concerns into value chain analysis : a conceptual framework and lessons for action research

Bolwig, Simon | 2008
  • Author(s): Bolwig, Simon
  • Publisher: Danish institute for international studies (DIIS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, small farms, project formulation, poverty, gender, environmental degradation
This paper develops a conceptual framework to overcome the shortcomings in stand-alone value chain, livelihoods and environmental analyses by integrating horizontal and vertical aspects that affect poverty and sustainability.
 

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