Book Launch: Gender and the Global Land Grab: A Feminist Global Governance Approach

Please join us for panel discussion to celebrate the launch of Gender and the Global Land Grab: A Feminist Global Governance Approach.

Panelists include Dr. Derek Hall (WLU), Dr. Helena Shilomboleni (UWaterloo), Rachael Vriezen (PhD Candidate, BSIA/UWaterloo), and Andrea M. Collins (UWaterloo)

Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist conceptual framework to analyze land governance policy around the world. Andrea M. Collins shows how gender norms, biases, and expectations shape land politics at different levels of governance and the implications for women in rural communities. Drawing on examples from sub-Saharan Africa and with an in-depth case study of land politics in Tanzania, the book assesses guidelines developed by institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank to highlight essential considerations for developing and implementing gender-transformative policy.

About the Speaker
Dr. Andrea M. Collins is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Dr. Collins researches gender and global environmental governance, with a focus on agriculture, land, and food politics. Her research has been published in Journal of Peasant Studies, Global Governance, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Globalizations. Her first book – Gender and the Global Grab – was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2024.