Dr. Andrea M. Collins is Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Collins received her Ph.D. in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada, and previously held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. She is also a graduate of the BSIA Master of Arts in Global Governance program.

Her research examines the role of gender in the governance of food, land, and agriculture in both local and global contexts. Most recently, she has focused her attention on the discourses used by global governance actors to describe the roles of women and gender relations in agricultural investment and public-private partnerships.

FACULTY

Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
University of Waterloo
519-888-4567 x38317
[email protected]

Publications

Collins, Andrea M. “Financialization, Resistance, and the Question of Women’s Land Rights.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 21, no. 3 (2019): 454–76.
Collins, Andrea M., Ackah-Baidoo, Patricia, and Grant, J. Andrew. “‘Glocal’ dynamics of Land Grabs and Natural Resource Extraction: Insights from Tanzania,” Land Use Policy Vol. 81 (2019): 889-896.
Khan, Fatima Noor, Andrea M. Collins, Prateep Kumar Nayak, and Derek Armitage. “Women’s Perspectives of Small-Scale Fisheries and Environmental Change in Chilika Lagoon, India.” Maritime Studies Vol. 17, no. 2 (2018): 145–54.
Collins, Andrea M. “Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies.” Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, Vol. 5, no. 1, (2018): 19-38.
Collins, Andrea M. “Saying all the Right Things? Gendered Discourses in Climate Smart Agriculture,” Journal of Peasant Studies Vol. 45, no. 1 (2018): 175-191.
Collins, Andrea M. and Mitchell, Matthew I. “Revisiting the World Bank’s land law reform agenda in Africa: The promise and perils of customary practices” Journal of Agrarian Change Vol. 18, no. 1 (2018): 112-131.
Collins, Andrea M. “Goal Setting and Governance: Examining the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition With a Gender Lens.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations Vol. 23, no. 3 (2017): 423–41.
Collins, Andrea M. “Improving Agricultural Land Security for Women: Assessing the FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines for Land Tenure” in Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key Issues and Practical Approaches, edited by Amber J. Fletcher and Wendee Kubik, New York: Routledge, 2017. pp. 133-146.
Collins, Andrea M. “‘Empowerment’ as Efficiency and Participation: Gender in Responsible Agricultural Investment Principles,” International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol. 18, no. 4 (2016): 559-573.
Collins, Andrea M. “Refocusing Governance From the ‘Bottom-Up’: Understanding the Gendered Dynamics of Land Deals for Biofuel Development in Kenya and Tanzania,” In New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights From Africa, edited by J. Andrew Grant, W. R. Nadège Compaoré, and Matthew I. Mitchell, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. pp. 181-199.
Collins, Andrea M. “Governing the Global Land Grab: What Role for Gender in the Voluntary Guidelines and the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment?” Globalizations Vol. 11, no. 2 (2014): 189-203.

Academic / Professional Awards

Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant “A New Alliance with Old Problems: A Gendered Analysis of the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition” 2016 – 2019
Principal Investigator, University of Waterloo Gender Equity Grant: “Understandings of Gender in Global Food Governance: Examining the UN Committee for World Food Security” 2016 – 2017
Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2009 – 2012