Kojo Sebastian Amanor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kojo Sebastian Amanor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kojo Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Amanor |
| SIGNATURE | AMANOR K S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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
This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice. The authors critically examine contemporary neoliberal market-led reforms and the legacy of coloniali…
Land and Sustainable Development in Africa
The Struggle for Sustainable Land Management and Democratic Development in Kenya
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…
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, …
Managing the fallow
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
Land and Sustainable Development in Africa
This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice. The authors critically examine contemporary neoliberal market-led reforms and the legacy of coloniali…
Land and Sustainable Development in Africa
The Struggle for Sustainable Land Management and Democratic Development in Kenya
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…
Economics (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Agricultural economics (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Commons (5 works)