Kojo S Amanor
Biographic Data
| ID | 80200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kojo S Amanor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kojo S |
| FAMILY NAME | Amanor |
| SIGNATURE | AMANOR K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
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…
Shaping Tradition
Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana
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…
Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana
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…
Space, Time, Rhetoric and Agricultural Change in the Transition Zone of Ghana
Shaping Tradition
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…
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…
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…
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…
Economics (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agrarian society (3 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (3 works)