Can certified-tea value chains deliver gender equality in Tanzania?

Allison Marie Loconto ()
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Allison Marie Loconto: LISIS - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - ESIEE Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IFRIS - Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société, UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

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Abstract: A popular approach over the past twenty years has been to rely upon voluntary standards as a means to make claims, measure, and judge whether a number of social-equity concerns exist in private-sector practices. But can voluntary standards deliver gender equity? This contribution responds to this question by exploring how standards and gendered division of labor interact in certified-tea value chains (for example, Ethical Tea Partnership, Fairtrade, Organic, and Rainforest Alliance) in Tanzania. The results of this mixed-method study (2008?10, 2013) contribute to the literature on gender equity and standards by building on the gendered value-chain approach to analyze these complex and contextual interactions. The study proposes that there is a need to focus on the interactions between men and women with different skills and training that contribute to how equitably their roles are distributed in the certified-tea value chains.

Keywords: Gender equity; labor standards; social norms; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (3), pp.1-25. ⟨10.1080/13545701.2014.1001765⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2014.1001765

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