Kojo Amanor
Biographic Data
| ID | 131026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kojo Amanor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kojo |
| FAMILY NAME | Amanor |
| SIGNATURE | AMANOR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Contradictions between commercializing seeds, empowering smallholders farmers, and promoting biodiversity in Ghana
This article critically examines the agricultural development agenda of promoting commercialization and sustainable intensification and contrasts this with farmers’ own priorities, with case studies drawn from the maize and cocoa sectors in Ghana. The study investigates the relationship between agricultural development paradigms, seed breeding strategies, and the commercialization of agriculture from the 1950s to present. It returns to the debate…
Tractors, states, markets and agrarian change in Africa
Mechanisation has made a comeback to agricultural policy in Africa, encouraging scholars to revisit seminal literature on induced innovation. Recent studies emphasise the role for markets in addressing Africa's mechanisation gaps and warn about past government failures to be avoided. The trust in the ability of markets to offer optimal solutions is debatable. Markets are shaped, as states are, by the interests of their most powerful players. A hi…
Old tractors, new policies and induced technological transformation
This article examines the recent uptake of tractor ploughing services in northern Ghana. It examines the historical continuities in mechanisation and the emergence of a class of medium-scale commercial farmers. In the light of this, it questions the thesis that the recent uptake of mechanisation and emergence of medium-scale farmers reflects the successes of market liberalisation. It is \ncritical of neoclassical theories of agricultural transfor…
Global Value Chains and Agribusiness in Africa
This article critically examines the concept of agrarian value chains in Africa, exploring the extent to which they reflect the expansion of agribusiness and its influence on agriculture. It traces the rise of agribusiness in the United States as a system based on extracting value through control over input marketing, processing and retailing in the post-war period. It examines the close relationship between US imperialism and the expansion of ag…
The global land grab
In the introduction to The global land grab, Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers argue that the current attention to large-scale land acquisitions in the South constitutes a ‘hype’, since it distracts
Brazil’s Agricultural Politics in Africa
Brazil’s influence in agricultural development in Africa has become noticeable in recent years. South–South cooperation is one of the instruments for engagement, and affinities between Brazil and African countries are invoked to justify the transfer of technology and public policies. In this article, we take the case of one of Brazil’s development cooperation programs, More Food International (MFI), to illustrate why policy concepts and ideas tha…
A New Politics of Development Cooperation? Chinese and Brazilian Engagements in African Agriculture
This paper introduces a Special Section on Chinese and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture. The paper asks if a new paradigm for development cooperation is emerging, and argues that we must move beyond the simplistic narratives of either “South–South” collaboration or “neo-imperial” expansion of “rising powers” to look at the dynamic and contested politics of engagement, as new forms of capital and technology enter African contexts. Hist…
South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development
The rise of new powers in development has generated much debate on the extent to which South–South Cooperation (SSC) constitutes a new paradigm of development more relevant to African needs or a disguise for a new form of imperialism. This paper critically examines the rise of Chinese and Brazilian technical and economic cooperation in African agriculture with two cases drawn from Ghana and Mozambique. Using a historical framework, policy documen…
South-South Cooperation in Africa
This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South–South relations on the nature of development and technical cooperation, aid and investment, and on the configuration of relations between states, farmers and the private sector. It examines the extent to which the experiences of China and Brazil in dev…
Expanding Agri-business
This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise of agri-business. The article examines the specificities of Chinese agricultural investments in Ghana in relation to wider investments and Chinese interests in the country. It also examines Brazilian investments within the Ghan…
Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder
This paper places land grabbing within the context of developments within agribusiness within the last 30 years, tracing the various trajectories of increasing competition and concentration and pressures on commodity prices that have resulted in increasing dispossession of smallholders and a move in some agri-food chains towards large estate production. The paper explores the ways in which contemporary agricultural policies and neoliberal market …
From Farmer Participation to Pro-poor Seed Markets
The current agricultural policy discourse in Ghana emphasises ‘pro?poor market’ approaches to seeds and input delivery systems by creating public?private partnerships and an enabling environment for agri?business. This has resulted in a particular configuration of actors and interests that define the country's emerging Green Revolution agenda, of which certified seed is a critical component. This article draws on the results of a political econom…
Family Values, Land Sales and Agricultural Commodification in South-Eastern Ghana
It is argued that land shortage and the decline of new frontier areas results in increasing conflicts over rights to land and to labour. This constrains land sales and agricultural land becomes increasingly transferred though sharecropping and the commodification of user rights in land, rather than through the evolution of clearly defined land markets. Smallholder agriculture increasingly becomes an individual undertaking, in which labour is hire…
Global Food Chains, African Smallholders and World Bank Governance
This paper critically examines the World Bank's analysis of the development of agribusiness in Africa in the World Development Report 2008 in relationship to its governance policies, which seek to introduce institutional reforms to promote private and public sector linkages with the participation of civil society. The paper argues that this confuses food chain governance (control over quality and the logistics of production) with democratic gover…
Land and Sustainable Development in Africa
The Struggle for Sustainable Land Management and Democratic Development in Kenya
Shaping Tradition
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana
Agricultural Markets in West Africa
Neoliberalpolicies havein recent years focusedonintroducing institutional reform to facilitate andregulate the operation of free markets. It is stillassumed that thefreemarket is thebest mechanismtoachieveefficient andequitablegrowth,alongsidetechnicalprescriptions.Agrowingbody of researchon the political economy of agribusiness and theways in whichagribusiness andgeopoliticalinterestscapture worldcommodity markets is largely ignoredwithin mainst…
Jeunes, migrants et marchandisation de l'agriculture au Ghana
Cet article étudie l’impact sur les jeunes des récentes évolutions structurelles de l’agriculture au Ghana. Il soutient que la place des jeunes dans l’économie de plantation actuelle ne peut être comprise que moyennant une analyse historique portant à la fois sur l’intégration de l’agriculture dans l’économie mondiale et les diverses alliances politiques ménagées par les autorités coloniales pour parvenir à administrer le monde rural et contrôler…
Bushfire Management, Culture and Ecological Modernisation in Ghana
The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana
Polly Hill, The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana: a study in rural capitalism. Published 1963, reprinted Hamburg: LIT and Oxford: James Currey, for the International African Institute, 1998, 265 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 298 X, hard covers, £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 299 8, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Dynamics of herd structures and herding strategies in West Africa
This study is an attempt to find variables in the technical, economic and anthropological literature on pastoralism that can be used to gain an overview of cattle herding strategies in West Africa and the nature of their integration into a wider regional market in which ecological differentiation plays an important role. It is largely concerned with the implications of this economic integration for the analysis of herding strategies and it attemp…
Ecological Knowledge and the Regional Economy
This study examines perceptions of the environment in farming communities in the forest ecotone of Ghana. It places local knowledge within a socio-economic and historical context and argues that knowledge is continually evolving, attempting to solve existing problems and discovering new ones. It maintains that favourable conditions exist in farming communities for environmental actions and development approaches based on sustainable development, …
Family Values, Land Sales and Agricultural Commodification in South-Eastern Ghana
It is argued that land shortage and the decline of new frontier areas results in increasing conflicts over rights to land and to labour. This constrains land sales and agricultural land becomes increasingly transferred though sharecropping and the commodification of user rights in land, rather than through the evolution of clearly defined land markets. Smallholder agriculture increasingly becomes an individual undertaking, in which labour is hire…
Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder
This paper places land grabbing within the context of developments within agribusiness within the last 30 years, tracing the various trajectories of increasing competition and concentration and pressures on commodity prices that have resulted in increasing dispossession of smallholders and a move in some agri-food chains towards large estate production. The paper explores the ways in which contemporary agricultural policies and neoliberal market …
A New Politics of Development Cooperation? Chinese and Brazilian Engagements in African Agriculture
This paper introduces a Special Section on Chinese and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture. The paper asks if a new paradigm for development cooperation is emerging, and argues that we must move beyond the simplistic narratives of either “South–South” collaboration or “neo-imperial” expansion of “rising powers” to look at the dynamic and contested politics of engagement, as new forms of capital and technology enter African contexts. Hist…
South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development
The rise of new powers in development has generated much debate on the extent to which South–South Cooperation (SSC) constitutes a new paradigm of development more relevant to African needs or a disguise for a new form of imperialism. This paper critically examines the rise of Chinese and Brazilian technical and economic cooperation in African agriculture with two cases drawn from Ghana and Mozambique. Using a historical framework, policy documen…
Brazil’s Agricultural Politics in Africa
Brazil’s influence in agricultural development in Africa has become noticeable in recent years. South–South cooperation is one of the instruments for engagement, and affinities between Brazil and African countries are invoked to justify the transfer of technology and public policies. In this article, we take the case of one of Brazil’s development cooperation programs, More Food International (MFI), to illustrate why policy concepts and ideas tha…
Global Food Chains, African Smallholders and World Bank Governance
This paper critically examines the World Bank's analysis of the development of agribusiness in Africa in the World Development Report 2008 in relationship to its governance policies, which seek to introduce institutional reforms to promote private and public sector linkages with the participation of civil society. The paper argues that this confuses food chain governance (control over quality and the logistics of production) with democratic gover…
Dynamics of herd structures and herding strategies in West Africa
This study is an attempt to find variables in the technical, economic and anthropological literature on pastoralism that can be used to gain an overview of cattle herding strategies in West Africa and the nature of their integration into a wider regional market in which ecological differentiation plays an important role. It is largely concerned with the implications of this economic integration for the analysis of herding strategies and it attemp…
Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Tractors, states, markets and agrarian change in Africa
Mechanisation has made a comeback to agricultural policy in Africa, encouraging scholars to revisit seminal literature on induced innovation. Recent studies emphasise the role for markets in addressing Africa's mechanisation gaps and warn about past government failures to be avoided. The trust in the ability of markets to offer optimal solutions is debatable. Markets are shaped, as states are, by the interests of their most powerful players. A hi…
Agricultural Markets in West Africa
Neoliberalpolicies havein recent years focusedonintroducing institutional reform to facilitate andregulate the operation of free markets. It is stillassumed that thefreemarket is thebest mechanismtoachieveefficient andequitablegrowth,alongsidetechnicalprescriptions.Agrowingbody of researchon the political economy of agribusiness and theways in whichagribusiness andgeopoliticalinterestscapture worldcommodity markets is largely ignoredwithin mainst…
South-South Cooperation in Africa
This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South–South relations on the nature of development and technical cooperation, aid and investment, and on the configuration of relations between states, farmers and the private sector. It examines the extent to which the experiences of China and Brazil in dev…
Old tractors, new policies and induced technological transformation
This article examines the recent uptake of tractor ploughing services in northern Ghana. It examines the historical continuities in mechanisation and the emergence of a class of medium-scale commercial farmers. In the light of this, it questions the thesis that the recent uptake of mechanisation and emergence of medium-scale farmers reflects the successes of market liberalisation. It is \ncritical of neoclassical theories of agricultural transfor…
Expanding Agri-business
This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise of agri-business. The article examines the specificities of Chinese agricultural investments in Ghana in relation to wider investments and Chinese interests in the country. It also examines Brazilian investments within the Ghan…
Global Value Chains and Agribusiness in Africa
This article critically examines the concept of agrarian value chains in Africa, exploring the extent to which they reflect the expansion of agribusiness and its influence on agriculture. It traces the rise of agribusiness in the United States as a system based on extracting value through control over input marketing, processing and retailing in the post-war period. It examines the close relationship between US imperialism and the expansion of ag…
From Farmer Participation to Pro-poor Seed Markets
The current agricultural policy discourse in Ghana emphasises ‘pro?poor market’ approaches to seeds and input delivery systems by creating public?private partnerships and an enabling environment for agri?business. This has resulted in a particular configuration of actors and interests that define the country's emerging Green Revolution agenda, of which certified seed is a critical component. This article draws on the results of a political econom…
Jeunes, migrants et marchandisation de l'agriculture au Ghana
Cet article étudie l’impact sur les jeunes des récentes évolutions structurelles de l’agriculture au Ghana. Il soutient que la place des jeunes dans l’économie de plantation actuelle ne peut être comprise que moyennant une analyse historique portant à la fois sur l’intégration de l’agriculture dans l’économie mondiale et les diverses alliances politiques ménagées par les autorités coloniales pour parvenir à administrer le monde rural et contrôler…
Bushfire Management, Culture and Ecological Modernisation in Ghana
Managing the fallow
Ecological Knowledge and the Regional Economy
This study examines perceptions of the environment in farming communities in the forest ecotone of Ghana. It places local knowledge within a socio-economic and historical context and argues that knowledge is continually evolving, attempting to solve existing problems and discovering new ones. It maintains that favourable conditions exist in farming communities for environmental actions and development approaches based on sustainable development, …
Born-Again Imperialism
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Managing the fallow
Ecological Knowledge and the Regional Economy
This study examines perceptions of the environment in farming communities in the forest ecotone of Ghana. It places local knowledge within a socio-economic and historical context and argues that knowledge is continually evolving, attempting to solve existing problems and discovering new ones. It maintains that favourable conditions exist in farming communities for environmental actions and development approaches based on sustainable development, …
Dynamics of herd structures and herding strategies in West Africa
This study is an attempt to find variables in the technical, economic and anthropological literature on pastoralism that can be used to gain an overview of cattle herding strategies in West Africa and the nature of their integration into a wider regional market in which ecological differentiation plays an important role. It is largely concerned with the implications of this economic integration for the analysis of herding strategies and it attemp…
The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana
Polly Hill, The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana: a study in rural capitalism. Published 1963, reprinted Hamburg: LIT and Oxford: James Currey, for the International African Institute, 1998, 265 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 298 X, hard covers, £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 299 8, paperback. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Bushfire Management, Culture and Ecological Modernisation in Ghana
Agricultural Markets in West Africa
Neoliberalpolicies havein recent years focusedonintroducing institutional reform to facilitate andregulate the operation of free markets. It is stillassumed that thefreemarket is thebest mechanismtoachieveefficient andequitablegrowth,alongsidetechnicalprescriptions.Agrowingbody of researchon the political economy of agribusiness and theways in whichagribusiness andgeopoliticalinterestscapture worldcommodity markets is largely ignoredwithin mainst…
Jeunes, migrants et marchandisation de l'agriculture au Ghana
Cet article étudie l’impact sur les jeunes des récentes évolutions structurelles de l’agriculture au Ghana. Il soutient que la place des jeunes dans l’économie de plantation actuelle ne peut être comprise que moyennant une analyse historique portant à la fois sur l’intégration de l’agriculture dans l’économie mondiale et les diverses alliances politiques ménagées par les autorités coloniales pour parvenir à administrer le monde rural et contrôler…
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana
Land and Sustainable Development in Africa
The Struggle for Sustainable Land Management and Democratic Development in Kenya
Shaping Tradition
Global Food Chains, African Smallholders and World Bank Governance
This paper critically examines the World Bank's analysis of the development of agribusiness in Africa in the World Development Report 2008 in relationship to its governance policies, which seek to introduce institutional reforms to promote private and public sector linkages with the participation of civil society. The paper argues that this confuses food chain governance (control over quality and the logistics of production) with democratic gover…
Family Values, Land Sales and Agricultural Commodification in South-Eastern Ghana
It is argued that land shortage and the decline of new frontier areas results in increasing conflicts over rights to land and to labour. This constrains land sales and agricultural land becomes increasingly transferred though sharecropping and the commodification of user rights in land, rather than through the evolution of clearly defined land markets. Smallholder agriculture increasingly becomes an individual undertaking, in which labour is hire…
From Farmer Participation to Pro-poor Seed Markets
The current agricultural policy discourse in Ghana emphasises ‘pro?poor market’ approaches to seeds and input delivery systems by creating public?private partnerships and an enabling environment for agri?business. This has resulted in a particular configuration of actors and interests that define the country's emerging Green Revolution agenda, of which certified seed is a critical component. This article draws on the results of a political econom…
Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder
This paper places land grabbing within the context of developments within agribusiness within the last 30 years, tracing the various trajectories of increasing competition and concentration and pressures on commodity prices that have resulted in increasing dispossession of smallholders and a move in some agri-food chains towards large estate production. The paper explores the ways in which contemporary agricultural policies and neoliberal market …
South-South Cooperation in Africa
This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South–South relations on the nature of development and technical cooperation, aid and investment, and on the configuration of relations between states, farmers and the private sector. It examines the extent to which the experiences of China and Brazil in dev…
Expanding Agri-business
This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise of agri-business. The article examines the specificities of Chinese agricultural investments in Ghana in relation to wider investments and Chinese interests in the country. It also examines Brazilian investments within the Ghan…
Brazil’s Agricultural Politics in Africa
Brazil’s influence in agricultural development in Africa has become noticeable in recent years. South–South cooperation is one of the instruments for engagement, and affinities between Brazil and African countries are invoked to justify the transfer of technology and public policies. In this article, we take the case of one of Brazil’s development cooperation programs, More Food International (MFI), to illustrate why policy concepts and ideas tha…
A New Politics of Development Cooperation? Chinese and Brazilian Engagements in African Agriculture
This paper introduces a Special Section on Chinese and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture. The paper asks if a new paradigm for development cooperation is emerging, and argues that we must move beyond the simplistic narratives of either “South–South” collaboration or “neo-imperial” expansion of “rising powers” to look at the dynamic and contested politics of engagement, as new forms of capital and technology enter African contexts. Hist…
South–South Cooperation, Agribusiness, and African Agricultural Development
The rise of new powers in development has generated much debate on the extent to which South–South Cooperation (SSC) constitutes a new paradigm of development more relevant to African needs or a disguise for a new form of imperialism. This paper critically examines the rise of Chinese and Brazilian technical and economic cooperation in African agriculture with two cases drawn from Ghana and Mozambique. Using a historical framework, policy documen…
The global land grab
In the introduction to The global land grab, Mayke Kaag and Annelies Zoomers argue that the current attention to large-scale land acquisitions in the South constitutes a ‘hype’, since it distracts
Global Value Chains and Agribusiness in Africa
This article critically examines the concept of agrarian value chains in Africa, exploring the extent to which they reflect the expansion of agribusiness and its influence on agriculture. It traces the rise of agribusiness in the United States as a system based on extracting value through control over input marketing, processing and retailing in the post-war period. It examines the close relationship between US imperialism and the expansion of ag…
Tractors, states, markets and agrarian change in Africa
Mechanisation has made a comeback to agricultural policy in Africa, encouraging scholars to revisit seminal literature on induced innovation. Recent studies emphasise the role for markets in addressing Africa's mechanisation gaps and warn about past government failures to be avoided. The trust in the ability of markets to offer optimal solutions is debatable. Markets are shaped, as states are, by the interests of their most powerful players. A hi…
Economics (22 works) · Geography (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Agriculture (17 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (13 works) · Business (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (8 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (8 works)