Every farmer is a farmer? A critical analysis of the emergence and development of Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8942515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chad Boda (0000-0002-3837-3510, Malmö University, corresponding author), Bernard Ekumah (0000-0003-1381-8189, Lund University), Ellinor Isgren (0000-0002-8949-2480, Lund University), Angela Dziedzom Akorsu (0000-0001-7704-6099, University of Cape Coast), Frederick A Armah (0000-0002-9371-5683, University of Cape Coast), Charles Tetteh Hombey |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 150 |
| Pages | 103995-103995 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103995 |
| OpenAlex | W4393045732 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Smallholder farmer-based rural social movements have been heralded as a promising source of political power with the potential to effectively promote sustainable trajectories of agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. However, the very early stages of rural social movement building remain understudied, including under what conditions such nascent efforts are likely to lead to effective political influence and foundations for broader collective action. Drawing on insights from organizational studies and resource mobilization theories, we provide an analytical narrative of the emergence and development of a smallholder farmer-based policy advocacy organization, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG). Through analysis of organizational documents and an extensive open-ended focus group interview with PFAG’s founders, long-term members, and current staff, we discuss how PFAG managed to overcome the “liability of newness” faced by new organizations, and how its resulting organizational structure influences its modes of resource mobilization and thus type and coverage of its advocacy and service delivery activities. Considering this developmental narrative, we elaborate several challenges that PFAG faces in pursuit of its ambitions to expand its influence in Ghanaian agricultural policy and practice. Our findings indicate the need for PFAG to address emerging contradictions in project activities and uneven geographical coverage, manage tensions between advocacy and service delivery objectives and to work towards establishing an umbrella agenda capable of providing for the diverse and evolving needs of their membership base
Agricultural economics · Association (psychology · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Peasant · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Social conflict and social movements.
Reclaiming the Land
Social Movements and Organization Theory
Resources and Social Movement Mobilization
Social structure and organizations
Focus group methodology
Framing energy justice
Agrarian change and rising vulnerability in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Group Evidence
If the change is going to happen it's not by us
The political ecology of seed security in the Northern Ghanaian Savannahs
The Political Economy of Policies for Smallholder Agriculture
The Future of Small Farms
NGOs, States, and Donors Revisited
Farmer resistance to agriculture commercialisation in northern Ghana
Rural Social Movements and Agroecology
Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
NGOs and advocacy
Look Who's Talking
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
We Are Not Starving
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
Agroecology as a territory in dispute
Food sovereignty via the 'peasant way
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |