ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an international policies promoting food security, the right to food, and gender equality, and in so doing it highlights the tensions between neoliberal and human rights-based approaches. The right to food approach resonates with efforts to integrate gender equality goals into the international governance of food security. In the regime complex on food security, neoliberal ideas have become tightly interwoven with the language of rights and ideas of gender equality in particular. An extensive body of empirical literature has developed to assess the diverse impacts of agricultural commercialization and export-led agriculture, including with regard to gender equality. ‘Agricultural commercialization means more than the marketing of outputs’. It reorganizes the entire process of agricultural production, changing the character of land, labour, capital, inputs, and technology, which increasingly become commodities to be purchased, rented, and sold.
