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Making climate-smart cocoa inclusive: towards a framework for gender transformation

dc.contributor.authorTorvikey, G.D.
dc.contributor.authorDalaa, M.A.
dc.contributor.authorAdomaa, F.O.
dc.contributor.authorAbdul-Razak, S.
dc.contributor.authorAmoah, I.A.
dc.contributor.authorKofituo, R.K.
dc.contributor.authorTettey, A.
dc.contributor.authorAsare, R.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-15T08:40:54Z
dc.date.available2024-05-15T08:40:54Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationTorvikey, G.D., Dalaa, M.A., Adomaa, F.O., Abdul-Razak, S., Amoah, I.A., Kofituo, R.K., ... & Asare, R. (2024). Making climate-smart cocoa inclusive: towards a framework for gender transformation. South African Review of Sociology, 1-16.
dc.identifier.issn2152-8586
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/8477
dc.description.abstractClimate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods of drought, pest and disease infestations, and fluctuating cocoa yields attributed to climate variability and change. Although many interventions are instituted to restore sustainable cocoa production, they are largely technicist because they do not pay attention to gender relations of production in the communities. Given the context of the embeddedness of gender inequality in access to resources, we used some CSC interventions in Ghana to reflect on the lingering questions of CSC production practices. We relied on CSC project documents, extant literature, farmer surveys and qualitative data to highlight the need for climate-smart agricultural approaches to be sensitive to structural and systemic issues that exclude female farmers. We argue that transforming norms that perpetuate unequal access to land, labour, input and extension services between men and women should be central to approaches that aim to promote sustainable and ecologically sound agricultural practices in cocoa production systems.
dc.description.sponsorshipCGIAR Trust Fund
dc.description.sponsorshipNorwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
dc.description.sponsorshipWorld Bank
dc.format.extent1-16
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectClimate Smart Agriculture
dc.subjectCocoa
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectLand
dc.subjectLabour
dc.titleMaking climate-smart cocoa inclusive: towards a framework for gender transformation
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR Single Centre
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.iitasubjectClimate Change
cg.iitasubjectCocoa
cg.iitasubjectFarming Systems
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectGender
cg.iitasubjectLand Use
cg.journalSouth African Review of Sociology
cg.notesOpen Access Article
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2024.2321909
cg.iitaauthor.identifierRichard Asare: 0000-0001-6798-7821
cg.futureupdate.requiredNo


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