Publication: Forum on Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender
The Journal of Peasant Studies has just published a Forum on “Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender”, which reports findings from the DEMETER project.
Research documentary: Agriculture Commercialisation and the Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
The DEMETER Ghana research team at the Institute of statistical social and economic research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana present a research documentary featuring findings from the research that has been conducted in Ghana for the last 6 years.
Publication: The Right to Food
This chapter discusses the historical development and content of international, regional and a selection of national frameworks on the human right to adequate food and inter-related rights such as the rights to land, water and other natural resources, work, education and social security.
Publication: Agricultural and Land Commercialisation: Do They Foster Gender Equality and the Right to Food?
This brief summarises a number of findings from the DEMETER project, focusing on the social, cultural, and economic outcomes of commercialisation and on the ways in which these affect the rights to food, land, decent work and social security. Adu Ankrah, Daniel, Anna Antwi, Peter Atupare, Marta Awo, Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Fred Dzanku, Promise Eweh,…
Two DEMETER researchers successfully defend their PhD dissertations
The whole team would like to congratulate DEMETER doctoral candidates Saba Joshi (Graduate Institute, left) and Dzifa Torvikey (University of Ghana, right) for brilliantly defending their PhD theses in June 2020. We would like to thank them for their wonderful contribution to our research and wish them all the very best for the next phase…
Conference: DEMETER at the 4th CSHL Conference on Comparative Human Rights Law
The DEMETER Team in Cambodia at the Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law (CSHL) of the Royal University of Law and Economics organized its 4th annual academic conference on 15 December 2018 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The conference is a platform for researchers to present and share their research findings with the students, faculty…
Article: Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman by Joanna Bourke Martignoni
Joanna Bourke Martignoni. 2019. Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman. Transnational Legal Theory. DOI: 10.1080/20414005.2018.1568789 International human rights bodies such as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and the UN Human Rights Council are…
Research Brief: Gender-Responsive Due Diligence for Business Actors: Human Rights-Based Approaches
By Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Elizabeth Umlas. Geneva: Geneva Academy. 2018. The UN Guiding Principles on business and human rights (UNGPs) make a key contribution to the implementation of human rights guarantees through their definition of the concept of human rights due diligence (HRDD), which directs companies to “identify, prevent, mitigate and account for” their…
Workshop: Demeter at the UN Economic Commission for Africa
As part of its week-long research meeting, the DEMETER team held a public event the 6th of June at the UN Economic Commission for Africa which attracted an audience from several regional international organisations, including the African Union as well as a number of specialised agencies, academics from Ethiopia and elsewhere and from civil…
Scaling-up workshop: Demeter team in Addis Ababa
A scaling-up workshop of the project Demeter takes place from the 4th to the 7th of June in Addis Ababa. Team members will discuss the publications of Demeter, seek to create dialogue with scholars in Ethiopia, communicate with international and national stakeholders and plan forthcoming project activities. A public event is organized by Demeter on the…