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We Are Not Starving - The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana (Paperback)
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We Are Not Starving - The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana (Paperback)
Series: African History and Culture
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This critical text is a timely ethnography of how global powers,
local resistance, and capital flows are shaping contemporary
African foodways. Ghana was one of the first countries targeted by
a group of US donors and agribusiness corporations that funded an
ambitious plan to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for
African farmers. The collective believed that GM crops would help
farmers increase their yields and help spark a "new" Green
Revolution on the continent. Soon after the project began in Ghana,
a nationwide food sovereignty movement emerged in opposition to GM
crops. Today, in spite of impressive efforts and investments by
proponents, only two GM crops remain in the pipeline. Why, after
years of preparation, millions of dollars of funding, and multiple
policy reforms, did these megaprojects effectively come to a halt?
One of the first ethnographies to take on the question of GM crops
in the African context, We Are Not Starving: The Struggle for Food
Sovereignty in Ghana blends archival analysis, interviews, and
participant observation with Ghanaian scientists, farmers,
activists, and officials. Ultimately the text aims to illuminate
why GM crops have animated the country and to highlight how their
introduction has opened an opportunity to air grievances about the
systematic de-valuing and exploitation of African land, labor, and
knowledge that have been centuries in the making.
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