Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement

Janin, Pierre; Acloque, Delphine; El Nour, Saker

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2023.2223914pmid: N/A

RÉSUMÉ Entre crise intriquée et mise à l’agenda de la durabilité, les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires sont à la croisée des chemins. Ce texte – qui introduit la section du même nom – aborde la question de la prise de décision en matière agricole et alimentaire sous l’angle du dilemme. Véritable passager clandestin, ce dernier est omniprésent. Il fournit un cadre heuristique et interactionniste pour rendre compte de situations complexes et des choix cornéliens auxquels est exposé tout protagoniste. Il est de nature à favoriser une meilleure compréhension des enjeux, des effets des arbitrages en contexte d’incertitudes, d’informations parcellaires et d’asymétries de pouvoir.

Landy, Frédéric

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2099357pmid: N/A

RÉSUMÉ Les énormes manifestations paysannes de 2020–2021 en Inde sont l’occasion de revenir historiquement sur les dilemmes que durent affronter les gouvernements du pays : dilemme alimentaire (priorité au consommateur ou au producteur?), dilemme interventionniste (État ou marché?), dilemme environnemental (agriculture industrielle ou agroécologie?) et dilemme éthique (concentration socio-spatiale ou diffusion?). Les trois lois que refusaient les agriculteurs ne représentaient qu’une accentuation de la libéralisation depuis 1991. Il s’agit de quitter une vision trop binaire à laquelle prédispose le paradigme du « di-lemme », pour penser en termes de « multi-lemme » plus complexe et intégré.

Moataz, Yasmine

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2155625pmid: N/A

Egypt’s extensive system of food subsidies has been subject to critique. While reviews focused on the system’s inefficiency, little attention has been given to how target beneficiaries in rural areas perceived food subsidy programs prior to the implementation of the 2014 food subsidy reform. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the aftermath of the 2011 uprisings until 2014 in the village of Al-Ab`adiyya Wālī Mizār in Fayyūm, Egypt, and drawing infrastructures as power-laden systems of inclusion and exclusion, this article points to the sense of entitlement associated with the food subsidy system among Egypt’s rural poor despite its precariousness.

Jouili, Mustapha; Elloumi, Mohamed

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2092459pmid: N/A

RÉSUMÉ La crise alimentaire de 2007–2008 et celle la plus récente associée à la pandémie du covid-19 ont renouvelé le débat sur les politiques agricoles et alimentaires dans les pays du Sud, notamment au tour du dilemme exportation versus production locale. Ayant adopté, depuis le milieu des années 1980, des programmes d’ajustement structurel, et consolidé, par la suite, la libéralisation de leurs politiques agricoles, les pays du Maghreb ne sont pas restés à l’abri de la crise alimentaire 2006–2008 et ont subi de plein fouet les effets de la crise Covid-19. Ces crises ont fait ressortir les risques de la forte dépendance des importations et la fragilité de la sécurité alimentaire basée sur les échanges internationaux. Elles invitent ainsi à repenser les choix en termes de politiques agricoles et alimentaires en accordant une plus grande attention à la production alimentaire nationale.

Chowdhury, Anis; Tadjoeddin, Mohammad Zulfan

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2113767pmid: N/A

The prospects for external financing of green transformation and resilient post-COVID-19 recovery remain bleak for developing countries. The scope for mobilising substantial domestic resources is limited, while public-private partnerships and blended finance failed to mobilise promised finance. Borrowing from central banks remains the only viable option for financing green transformation. The conventional arguments against such borrowing, e.g. growth retarding acceleration inflation or macroeconomic instability do not have sound theoretical or empirical basis. However, democratic oversights are needed against fiscal abuse to ensure productive utilisation of borrowed funds. A high degree of coordination between fiscal and monetary authorities is also essential.

Soto Hernández, Daniela; González Gálvez, Marcelo; di Giminiani, Piergiorgio

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2117139pmid: N/A

Discourses of innovation are prone to homogenisation, and as such, their effects in the development of Indigenous enterprises are highly ambivalent. The elusiveness of innovation can also work as a flexible set of ideas through which Indigenous entrepreneurs reconfigure existing commercial practices. Focussing on two Mapuche enterprises, this article explores how innovation in the context of Indigenous entrepreneurship is performed as a process of cultural translation. We advance a definition of innovation focused on the transformation of Indigenous daily practices into valuable products within a market dominated by non-Indigenous clients and mediators.

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Aydede, Yigit

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2145273pmid: N/A

Son preference is known to influence fertility decisions, but very little is known about the prevalence of son preference in Turkey and its consequences for fertility behaviours. We use data from five waves of the Demographic and Health Survey and the Survey on Income and Living Conditions to show that son preference results in differential stopping behaviours and shorter birth spacing. Despite many public reforms promoting gender equality in Turkey, women and children are put at risk in the quest for a son. This result holds in all regions, in both urban and rural areas, and across the socio-economic spectrum.

Mabee, Warren; Liu, Yun

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2161489pmid: N/A

This article applies historical research with cross-disciplinary analysis to investigate some “lost” stories of Canadian engagement in China’s first multilateral development-aid project in 1981–1988. Policy reflection on bilateral relations can benefit from expanding recognition of some early Canadian experiences marginally examined in this significant case of Development Diplomacy within a Chinese context. Almost forgotten, these collaboration practices yet started when a small team of Canadian agricultural specialists provided three years of consulting service to this Northern Pasture and Livestock Development project co-funded by the IFAD. Our archival inquiries create refreshing lessons for international development-aid initiatives that advocate community-based, multiple-stakeholders collaboration for restoring bilateral relations.

Nagpal, Sugandha

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2022.2162485pmid: N/A

This paper examines economic outcomes and aspirations of land oustees at a PSU’s land acquisition site in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh (India). Despite more heterogenous economic outcomes based on land acquisition experiences and caste positioning, land oustees have a common aspiration for employment in the urban economy. The resilience of this common aspiration despite the uncertainty of commensurate economic outcomes points to a shared culture of aspirations that recognizes development in terms of non-agrarian futures. While lower-caste land oustees experience circumscribed economic mobility, the process of land acquisition facilitates an expansion in their capacity to navigate the future.

Rosier, Morgane

doi: 10.1080/02255189.2021.1947786pmid: N/A