“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana

Joeva Sean Rock ()
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Joeva Sean Rock: University of Cambridge

Agriculture and Human Values, 2023, vol. 40, issue 3, No 31, 1259-1272

Abstract: Abstract At the turn of the 21st century, a collection of donors created the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to spark a “new” Green Revolution on the African continent. Since its inception, AGRA’s mission has revolved around a series of interventions designed around the idea of making agriculture a “business.” In this paper, I ask how AGRA puts such discourses into practice with a particular focus in Ghana. To do so, I draw on a television show produced by AGRA called Kuapa, organizational literature, and to a lesser extent, interviews, to assess how AGRA materializes its goals in Ghana. Ultimately, I argue that a focus on discourse not only provides insight into how AGRA conceptualizes agricultural transformation, but also how AGRA pursues agronomic, political, and social changes in the countries in which it intervenes.

Keywords: New Green Revolution for Africa; Food Security; Development; Ghana; Critical discourse analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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