Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South

Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey

November 1, 2020

Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A Manifesto

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…
May 17, 2020

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…