Gender, land, and the right to food in Southeast Asia

Some factors that are often neglected in academic and public discussions are the ways in which the outcomes of commercialization processes in agriculture are unequally distributed and often dependent on identity attributes such as gender, age, class and ethnicity and while some benefit, others lose out. This event – part of the six-year DEMETER (Droits et Egalité pour une Meilleure Economie de la Terre) research for development project funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation – will consider these issues. In particular, it will highlight the intersection of gender, land commercialisation, generation and the right to food in selected countries in Southeast Asia, namely Indonesia and Cambodia.

The program, organized by the Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID), the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) and Southeast Asia (SEA) Junction, consists of the following.

Programme

Welcome addresses by

• Thanapan Laiprakobsup, Faculty of Political Science and Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
• Bernadette P. Resurrección, Stockholm Environment Institute

Moderator

• Rosalia Sciortino, Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University & SEA Junction

Public Speech

“At the intersection of gender, generation and class: young women farmers in commercializing smallholder agriculture”

Ben White

Professor, International Institute for Social Studies (ISS), The Hague

Discussants:

• Saba Joshi, PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva on how contestation over land is shaping political identities among women and indigenous minorities in Cambodia
• Sara Vigil, research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute and PhD fellow at International Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Hague and University of Liege, Belgium on climate change, land grabs and migration in Cambodia and Senegal.

The panel presentations will be followed by Q&A.