In Malawi, traditional/customary land rights are engendered where the patrilineal or matrilineal land holding regimes are upheld. In this paper, we investigate the interplay between engendered land rights regimes and intrahousehold bargaining power in dictating the direction of agricultural commercialization, and food security in Malawi. We, firstly, examine the effect of engendered land...
Humanity faces the challenge to produce sufficient food, fuel and fibre at contested natural resources for a growing world population. Intensive farming, driven by economic pressures, leads to adverse environmental effects. Transitioning to sustainable farming is crucial, however, success of policies like the EU's Common Agricultural Policy in promoting sustainable practices is limited. Recent...
Introduction
Systems-level transformation is increasingly recognized as necessary to improve the sustainability, equity, and resilience of agri-food systems. The CGIAR initiative on Agroecology utilizes a system transformation approach in alignment with (Gliessman, 2021) and the 13 principles of agroecology outlined by Nicolétis et al. (2019). This approach requires new understandings of...
