Dzodzi Tsikata
Biographic Data
| ID | 123154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dzodzi Tsikata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dzodzi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsikata |
| SIGNATURE | TSIKATA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 381 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
The Gender Dimensions of Resource Conflicts in Ghana: Deconstructing the Male-Centric and Binary Outlook of Communal Conflicts
The literature on gender and conflicts in Africa is dominated by essentialised and narrow male-centric constructions of conflict and stereotypes of female victimhood which obscure alternative female-centric ideation and experiences on conflict and conflict resolution. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, and drawing in insights from anthropology and history, this article explores the nature of women’s constructions of and participation in commu…
Implications of socioeconomic change for agrarian land and labour relations in rural Ghana
Analysis of socioeconomic change and effects on agrarian land and labour relations in Ghana. • Increasing rates of youth schooling in family farm households. • Declining reciprocity offering of agrarian labour. • Qualitative and quantitative evidence shows high opportunity costs of youth schooling. • Opportunity cost of youth schooling similar for women and men
Codesria Tribute to the Abuja Memorial in Honour of Professor Abubakar Momoh
An Inspirational Figure
Statement on the passing on of Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, 1954-2017
Agricultural and land commercialization - feminist and rights perspectives
The article introduces the Forum on Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender, which reports findings from DEMETER project, a collaboration of scholars from Cambodia, Ghana and Switzerland. The project examines how agriculture and food security policies have advanced or hindered gender equality and the right to food; analyzes the role of human rights-based accountability mechanisms in this; and maps gendered changes in livelihoods in situat…
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation: What implications for the food security of Ghana's smallholder farmers
Using a comparative mixed methods approach involving two districts each in Southern and Northern Ghana, this article addresses the question: under what conditions, and at what scale does smallholder agricultural commercialisation promote or hinder food security? Specifically, it presents an analysis of how gender and spatial inequalities in resource control determine differential capacities to commercialise and the implications of agricultural co…
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness resources considered ‘underutilised’, leading to contestations over rights and entitlements and producing new scarcities. Yet scarcity is contingent, contextual, relational and above all political. We present an analysis of three fr…
Sam Moyo: A Life of Prodigious Scholarship, Institution Building and Strategic Activism
The car accident that took Sam Moyo's life in Delhi on 22 November 2015 and injured his comrades Paris Yeros and Marcelo Rosa, cut short a scholar at the height of his powers. Working together with a group of like-minded colleagues, Sam had finally built the foundations of a vibrant tri-continental network that could hold his dreams: the Agrarian South Network. He was in Delhi at a conference on 'Labour Questions in the Global South', hosted by P…
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: Agricultural Commercialisation and Implications for Agrarian Change
Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale,avoid dispossessing local people of their land,promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local economies depends on what farming model is pursued. In this Forum, we build on recent scholarship by discussing the key findings of our recent studies in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. We examined cases of three models of agricultural co…
Gender, Land Tenure and Agrarian Production Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article examines in historical perspective how gendered land tenure systems have contributed to shaping, and have in turn been shaped by, agrarian production and reproduction systems and how this has worked to the disadvantage of women in terms of their livelihood choices and outcomes and their position in agrarian societies. It is argued that contemporary challenges to the health of Africa's agrarian production systems have gender implicati…
Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women's lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; th…
World Social Science Forum 2015: Transforming Global Relations for a Just World
Tributes to Professor Sam Moyo: Codesria President 2008-2011
Land, Gender, and Food Security
Since 2008, a surge in large-scale land acquisitions, or land grabs, has been taking place in low- and middle-income countries around the globe. This contribution examines the gendered effects of and responses to these deals, drawing on nine studies, which include conceptual framing essays that bring in debates about human rights, studies that draw on previous waves of land acquisitions globally, and case studies that examine the gendered dimensi…
Researching empowerment: On methodological innovations, pitfalls and challenges
When a Good Business Model is Not Enough: Land Transactions and Gendered Livelihood Prospects in Rural Ghana
Recent large-scale commercial agriculture projects in developing countries have raised concerns about the effects on natural resource-based livelihood activities of local people. A significant weakness in the emerging literature is the lack of a gender perspective on implications for agrarian livelihoods. This article explores the gendered aspects of land transactions on livelihood prospects in the Northern Region of Ghana. Drawing on qualitative…
Economic Change in Africa and Prospects for Business: An African Perspective
Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects
In 2007, as Ghanaians were suffering another electricity crisis with frequent power outages, President J. A. Kufuor celebrated in a festive mode the sod cutting for the country’s third large hydro-electric dam at Bui across the Black Volta in the Brong Ahafo Region.[1][1] The new 400 megawatt (MW
Employment Agencies and the Regulation of Domestic Workers in Ghana: Institutionalizing Informality
Les particuliers et les agents de placement informels contribuent depuis longtemps au marché du travail domestique au Ghana. Depuis les années 1990, les agences de placement officielles font également partie du paysage du travail. Dans le présent article, il est question des conditions de travail des travailleuses domestiques, du contexte dans lequel s'applique la politique d'emploi au Ghana et des méthodes utilisées pour l'approvisionnement de m…
Women in Ghana at 50: Still Struggling to Achieve Full Citizenship
Fifty years after Ghana gained independence from British colonial rule, women in Ghana are yet to enjoy full citizenship rights. While they have been accorded formal rights of citizenship by successive Ghanaian constitutions, this is undermined daily by discriminatory policies and practices in
Living in the Shadow of the Large Dams: Long Term Responses of Downstream and Lakeside Communities of Ghana’s Volta River Project
Studies of populations affected by Large Dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams, and livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the boo…
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: Agricultural Commercialisation and Implications for Agrarian Change
Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale,avoid dispossessing local people of their land,promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local economies depends on what farming model is pursued. In this Forum, we build on recent scholarship by discussing the key findings of our recent studies in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. We examined cases of three models of agricultural co…
Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary
This article examines some contemporary policy discourses on land tenure reform in sub-Saharan Africa and their implications for women's interests in land. It demonstrates an emerging consensus among a range of influential policy institutions, lawyers and academics about the potential of so-called customary systems of land tenure to meet the needs of all land users and claimants. This consensus, which has arisen out of critiques of past attempts …
When a Good Business Model is Not Enough: Land Transactions and Gendered Livelihood Prospects in Rural Ghana
Recent large-scale commercial agriculture projects in developing countries have raised concerns about the effects on natural resource-based livelihood activities of local people. A significant weakness in the emerging literature is the lack of a gender perspective on implications for agrarian livelihoods. This article explores the gendered aspects of land transactions on livelihood prospects in the Northern Region of Ghana. Drawing on qualitative…
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness resources considered ‘underutilised’, leading to contestations over rights and entitlements and producing new scarcities. Yet scarcity is contingent, contextual, relational and above all political. We present an analysis of three fr…
Land, Gender, and Food Security
Since 2008, a surge in large-scale land acquisitions, or land grabs, has been taking place in low- and middle-income countries around the globe. This contribution examines the gendered effects of and responses to these deals, drawing on nine studies, which include conceptual framing essays that bring in debates about human rights, studies that draw on previous waves of land acquisitions globally, and case studies that examine the gendered dimensi…
Securing Women's Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania
This article is an account of the debates around the recent land tenure reforms in Tanzania. It focuses on the discourses of Government officials, academic researchers and NGO activists on the implications of the reforms for women's interests in land and the most fruitful approaches to the issues of discriminatory customary law rules and male-dominated land management and adjudication institutions at national and village levels. The article argue…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Gender, Land Tenure and Agrarian Production Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article examines in historical perspective how gendered land tenure systems have contributed to shaping, and have in turn been shaped by, agrarian production and reproduction systems and how this has worked to the disadvantage of women in terms of their livelihood choices and outcomes and their position in agrarian societies. It is argued that contemporary challenges to the health of Africa's agrarian production systems have gender implicati…
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation: What implications for the food security of Ghana's smallholder farmers
Using a comparative mixed methods approach involving two districts each in Southern and Northern Ghana, this article addresses the question: under what conditions, and at what scale does smallholder agricultural commercialisation promote or hinder food security? Specifically, it presents an analysis of how gender and spatial inequalities in resource control determine differential capacities to commercialise and the implications of agricultural co…
Agricultural and land commercialization - feminist and rights perspectives
The article introduces the Forum on Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender, which reports findings from DEMETER project, a collaboration of scholars from Cambodia, Ghana and Switzerland. The project examines how agriculture and food security policies have advanced or hindered gender equality and the right to food; analyzes the role of human rights-based accountability mechanisms in this; and maps gendered changes in livelihoods in situat…
Researching empowerment: On methodological innovations, pitfalls and challenges
Employment Agencies and the Regulation of Domestic Workers in Ghana: Institutionalizing Informality
Les particuliers et les agents de placement informels contribuent depuis longtemps au marché du travail domestique au Ghana. Depuis les années 1990, les agences de placement officielles font également partie du paysage du travail. Dans le présent article, il est question des conditions de travail des travailleuses domestiques, du contexte dans lequel s'applique la politique d'emploi au Ghana et des méthodes utilisées pour l'approvisionnement de m…
The Rights-based Approach to Development: Potential for Change or More of the Same
Implications of socioeconomic change for agrarian land and labour relations in rural Ghana
Analysis of socioeconomic change and effects on agrarian land and labour relations in Ghana. • Increasing rates of youth schooling in family farm households. • Declining reciprocity offering of agrarian labour. • Qualitative and quantitative evidence shows high opportunity costs of youth schooling. • Opportunity cost of youth schooling similar for women and men
Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects
In 2007, as Ghanaians were suffering another electricity crisis with frequent power outages, President J. A. Kufuor celebrated in a festive mode the sod cutting for the country’s third large hydro-electric dam at Bui across the Black Volta in the Brong Ahafo Region.[1][1] The new 400 megawatt (MW
Women in Ghana at 50: Still Struggling to Achieve Full Citizenship
Fifty years after Ghana gained independence from British colonial rule, women in Ghana are yet to enjoy full citizenship rights. While they have been accorded formal rights of citizenship by successive Ghanaian constitutions, this is undermined daily by discriminatory policies and practices in
Securing Women's Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania
This article is an account of the debates around the recent land tenure reforms in Tanzania. It focuses on the discourses of Government officials, academic researchers and NGO activists on the implications of the reforms for women's interests in land and the most fruitful approaches to the issues of discriminatory customary law rules and male-dominated land management and adjudication institutions at national and village levels. The article argue…
Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary
This article examines some contemporary policy discourses on land tenure reform in sub-Saharan Africa and their implications for women's interests in land. It demonstrates an emerging consensus among a range of influential policy institutions, lawyers and academics about the potential of so-called customary systems of land tenure to meet the needs of all land users and claimants. This consensus, which has arisen out of critiques of past attempts …
The Rights-based Approach to Development: Potential for Change or More of the Same
Living in the Shadow of the Large Dams: Long Term Responses of Downstream and Lakeside Communities of Ghana’s Volta River Project
Studies of populations affected by Large Dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams, and livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the boo…
Women in Ghana at 50: Still Struggling to Achieve Full Citizenship
Fifty years after Ghana gained independence from British colonial rule, women in Ghana are yet to enjoy full citizenship rights. While they have been accorded formal rights of citizenship by successive Ghanaian constitutions, this is undermined daily by discriminatory policies and practices in
Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects
In 2007, as Ghanaians were suffering another electricity crisis with frequent power outages, President J. A. Kufuor celebrated in a festive mode the sod cutting for the country’s third large hydro-electric dam at Bui across the Black Volta in the Brong Ahafo Region.[1][1] The new 400 megawatt (MW
Employment Agencies and the Regulation of Domestic Workers in Ghana: Institutionalizing Informality
Les particuliers et les agents de placement informels contribuent depuis longtemps au marché du travail domestique au Ghana. Depuis les années 1990, les agences de placement officielles font également partie du paysage du travail. Dans le présent article, il est question des conditions de travail des travailleuses domestiques, du contexte dans lequel s'applique la politique d'emploi au Ghana et des méthodes utilisées pour l'approvisionnement de m…
Economic Change in Africa and Prospects for Business: An African Perspective
When a Good Business Model is Not Enough: Land Transactions and Gendered Livelihood Prospects in Rural Ghana
Recent large-scale commercial agriculture projects in developing countries have raised concerns about the effects on natural resource-based livelihood activities of local people. A significant weakness in the emerging literature is the lack of a gender perspective on implications for agrarian livelihoods. This article explores the gendered aspects of land transactions on livelihood prospects in the Northern Region of Ghana. Drawing on qualitative…
Land, Gender, and Food Security
Since 2008, a surge in large-scale land acquisitions, or land grabs, has been taking place in low- and middle-income countries around the globe. This contribution examines the gendered effects of and responses to these deals, drawing on nine studies, which include conceptual framing essays that bring in debates about human rights, studies that draw on previous waves of land acquisitions globally, and case studies that examine the gendered dimensi…
Researching empowerment: On methodological innovations, pitfalls and challenges
Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women's lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; th…
World Social Science Forum 2015: Transforming Global Relations for a Just World
Tributes to Professor Sam Moyo: Codesria President 2008-2011
Gender, Land Tenure and Agrarian Production Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article examines in historical perspective how gendered land tenure systems have contributed to shaping, and have in turn been shaped by, agrarian production and reproduction systems and how this has worked to the disadvantage of women in terms of their livelihood choices and outcomes and their position in agrarian societies. It is argued that contemporary challenges to the health of Africa's agrarian production systems have gender implicati…
Sam Moyo: A Life of Prodigious Scholarship, Institution Building and Strategic Activism
The car accident that took Sam Moyo's life in Delhi on 22 November 2015 and injured his comrades Paris Yeros and Marcelo Rosa, cut short a scholar at the height of his powers. Working together with a group of like-minded colleagues, Sam had finally built the foundations of a vibrant tri-continental network that could hold his dreams: the Agrarian South Network. He was in Delhi at a conference on 'Labour Questions in the Global South', hosted by P…
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: Agricultural Commercialisation and Implications for Agrarian Change
Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale,avoid dispossessing local people of their land,promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local economies depends on what farming model is pursued. In this Forum, we build on recent scholarship by discussing the key findings of our recent studies in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. We examined cases of three models of agricultural co…
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness resources considered ‘underutilised’, leading to contestations over rights and entitlements and producing new scarcities. Yet scarcity is contingent, contextual, relational and above all political. We present an analysis of three fr…
Codesria Tribute to the Abuja Memorial in Honour of Professor Abubakar Momoh
An Inspirational Figure
Statement on the passing on of Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, 1954-2017
Agricultural and land commercialization - feminist and rights perspectives
The article introduces the Forum on Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender, which reports findings from DEMETER project, a collaboration of scholars from Cambodia, Ghana and Switzerland. The project examines how agriculture and food security policies have advanced or hindered gender equality and the right to food; analyzes the role of human rights-based accountability mechanisms in this; and maps gendered changes in livelihoods in situat…
The gender and geography of agricultural commercialisation: What implications for the food security of Ghana's smallholder farmers
Using a comparative mixed methods approach involving two districts each in Southern and Northern Ghana, this article addresses the question: under what conditions, and at what scale does smallholder agricultural commercialisation promote or hinder food security? Specifically, it presents an analysis of how gender and spatial inequalities in resource control determine differential capacities to commercialise and the implications of agricultural co…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Livelihood (8 works)