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Contesting Africas New Green Revolution

Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa

Published by one of the worlds leading publishers on African issues, Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa seeks to provide accessible but in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues affecting countries within the continent. Featuring a wealth of empirical material and case study detail, and focusing on a diverse range of subject matterfrom conflict to gender, development to the environmentthe series is a platform for scholars to present original and often provocative arguments. Selected titles in the series are published in association with the International African Institute.

The principal aim of the International African Institute is to promote scholarly understanding of Africa, notably its changing societies, cultures, and languages. Founded in 1926 and based in London, it supports a range of seminars and publications, including the journal Africa .

www.internationalafricaninstitute.org

Managing Editor: Max Vickers

Series Editors: Jon Schubert (Brunel University) and Elliot Green (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Editorial Board

Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa), Morten Boas (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), David Booth (Overseas Development Institute), Padraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin), Neil Carrier (University of Bristol), Fantu Cheru (Leiden University), Kevin Dunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Amanda Hammar (University of Copenhagen), Alcinda Honwana (Open University), Paul Jackson (University of Birmingham), Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick), Zachariah Mampilly (Vassar College), Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjld Foundation), Garth A. Myers (Trinity College Hartford Connecticut), Lonce Ndikumana (UMass Amherst), Cyril Obi (Social Science Research Council), Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town), Mareike Schomerus (Overseas Development Institute), Laura Seay (Morehouse College), Howard Stein (University of Michigan), Mats Utas (Uppsala University), Alex de Waal (Tufts University)

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Contesting Africas New Green Revolution

Biotechnology and Philanthrocapitalist Development in Ghana

Jacqueline A. Ignatova

CONTENTS

Chapter 1
GREEN REVOLUTION DISCOURSE, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, AND THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR AGRIBUSINESS

Chapter 2
PHILANTHROCAPITALISM AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLICPRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

Chapter 3
BIOCAPITAL, PRO-POOR BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND LEGISLATIVE CHANGES IN THE SEED SECTOR

Chapter 4
TECHNOLOGICAL SAVIOR OR TERMINATOR GENE? BIOTECHNOLOGY, FOOD SECURITY, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HYPE

Chapter 5
EXPERTS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND THE LAST MILE USER

Chapter 6
NEOCOLONIAL ANXIETIES

Jacqueline A. Ignatova is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Her work has been featured in Third World Quarterly and African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal .

When I was preparing my application for a Fulbright fellowship in 2011 to study the unfolding debate around genetically modified crops in Ghana, I knew that I might be a bit early to the scene. I got reassurance by my workshop participation and interviews in DC that Ghana would soon be both a new site for confined field trials of genetically modified crops and a target of new Green Revolution for Africa interventions promoted by a global assemblage of actors in development, agriculture, and philanthropy. Ghana is the furthest along, with regard to the introduction of genetically modified crops in West Africa, one DC-based development official knowledgeable about global biotech trends told me. Yet, when it came to identifying a Ghanaian anti-GMO or food sovereigntyrelated activist organization tracking these developments, I came up short.

I decided to send an email to Bakari Sadiq Nyari, someone I understood from my office in Baltimore to be a food and land sovereignty activist, who had written a compelling expos of biofuel land grabbing in northern Ghana. He had passionately condemned a Norwegian biofuel company that tried to establish the largest jatropha A few months following my e-mail, Mr. Nyari wrote that he would be happy to work with me and would connect me to the executive director of RAINS, a Tamale-based NGO that focuses on intergenerational knowledge exchange in agriculture and gender equity work in education. If there was not yet a big debate about GMOs in northern Ghana, I thought an organization like RAINS and Nyaris work on land grabbing would be the likely source of its murmurings.

It turned out that Mr. Nyari is far more than a food and land sovereignty activist. Nyaricontrary to my initial impression upon reading his exposis a big man in Ghana and through his former service as national chairman of Ghanas Lands Commission has been involved in part of these so-called new Green Revolution (nGR) interventions. Additionally, Nyari was the Director of the Lands Commissions Public and Vested Lands Management Division and the Principal Lands Officer of the Upper East Regional Lands Commission, as well as a part-time university lecturer in land economics. He co-owns a hotel with his wife, serves as a principal consultant at Premium Property Consult, has an extensive garden, raises quail, and is growing the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

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