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Contesting Africa’s New Green Revolution: Biotechnology and Philanthrocapitalist Development in Ghana: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa

Autor Jacqueline A. Ignatova
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 iun 2021
Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of 'pro-poor' innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of 'new Green Revolution for Africa' interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of 'philanthrocapitalism,' which advances business solutions to address the problem of poverty. Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Jacqueline Ignatova shows how efforts to transform the seed sector in northern Ghana - one of the key laboratories of this 'new Green Revolution' - may serve to exacerbate the inequality it was notionally intended to address. But she also argues that its effects in Ghana have been far more complex than either side of the debate has acknowledged, with local farmers proving adept at blending traditional and modern agricultural methods that subvert the interests of global agribusiness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786996558
ISBN-10: 1786996553
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Seria Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers a new take on the much-contested 'Green revolution' in Africa, showing how GM's actual effects on the ground have been far more complex than either proponents or critics of the technology have acknowledged

Notă biografică

Jacqueline A. Ignatova is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA. She is vice chair of the board of F.A.R.M. (Feed All Regardless of Means) Cafe and a co-founder of the Watauga Seed Library in Boone, North Carolina. Her work has been featured in Third World Quarterly and African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Green Revolution discourse, structural adjustment, and the "enabling environment" for agribusinessChapter 2: Philanthrocapitalism and the politics of public-private partnershipsChapter 3: Biocapital, "pro-poor" biotechnology, and legislative changes in the seed sectorChapter 4: Technological savior or terminator gene? Biotechnology, food security, and the political economy of hypeChapter 5: Experts, entrepreneurs, and the "last mile user"Interlude: On "mixing"Chapter 6: Neocolonial anxietiesConclusion

Recenzii

Ignatova's important book illuminates profound problems with public-private partnerships that skirt democratic accountability and empower wealthy interests at the expense of local communities. But it's not a despairing account: she centres Ghanaian activists and policy-makers who are pioneering a new type of philanthropy, one emphasizing interdependency and social justice over anti-democratic efforts to privatize seed commons. A revelatory and insightful study.
Like a combine through a field of genetically modified maize, Jacqueline Ignatova cuts through the rhetoric surrounding the 'Green Revolution for Africa' to reveal the underlying power, politics and inequities that shape agricultural development in contemporary Ghana. Full of rich empirics and analytical insights, this book is essential reading for those seeking a comprehensive understanding of how public-private partnerships and philanthropy-driven initiatives are reshaping smallholder agriculture across the African continent.