We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Author: Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong
Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong is PhD researcher in Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is in the political ecology research group at the International Institute of Social studies. She has an MSc in Development Studies (SOAS, London), and a BSc Honours in Development Planning (KNUST, Ghana). She has worked in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Zimbabwe. Adwoa’s research interests are in rural development and social policy planning. In her PhD research, Adwoa investigates the labour dynamics of transnational large-scale agricultural land acquisitions (land deals) to draw implications for rural development and policy. She has recently published papers on the land -labour nexus of land deals in academic journals including land use policy (2020), Globalizations, (2020 and Land (2019). Prior to Adwoa’s PhD study, she worked as a teaching/research assistant at KNUST, and she has also conducted several research consultancies, and monitoring and evaluation for NGOs and institutions in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Zimbabwe and England. Her email address is gyapong@iss.nl