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

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 agricu...

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Published in:Agriculture and human values 2023-09, Vol.40 (3), p.1259-1272
Main Author: Rock, Joeva Sean
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agribusiness
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Ethics
Agriculture
Development Studies
Discourse analysis
Education
Entertainment industry
Environmental Sociology
Epistemology
Farmers
Field study
Food
Green revolution
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Philosophy
Science
Seeds
Social change
Sustainable Development
Television
Television programs
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0889-048X
1572-8366
DOI:10.1007/s10460-023-10424-8