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: Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey pursued PhD Development Studies at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) in the University of Ghana. She is the Programme Officer for the Feminist Africa Journal. Her research interests include political economy of agrarian change, gender and migration issues in development. She is an alumna of JPS-PLAAS-YARA Writeshop held in Beijing, China in 2019. Her publications include Labour Casualisation and Youth Employment in Ghana’s Formal Private Sector (2018), Yaro, J. A., Teye, J. K & Torvikey, G. D. (2017). Agricultural Commercialisation Models, Agrarian Dynamics and Local Development in Ghana; Torvikey, G.D; Yaro, J.A & Teye, J. (2016). Farm to Factory Gendered Employment: The Case of Blue Skies Outgrower Scheme in Ghana.
How Ghana’s COVID-19 measures locked down ‘food for the working poor’
Ghana announced its first two imported cases of COVID-19 on the 12th of March 2020. By the 7th of May, the cases had shot up to 3,091 with 18 deaths. Accra, the capital city has become the epicentre of the outbreak. To contain the spread, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) shut down and fumigated all markets…