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“No one is talking about food”: making agriculture a “business” in Ghana

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Peer-reviewed

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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pAt the turn of the 21st century, a collection of donors created the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to spark a “new” Green Revolution on the African continent. Since its inception, AGRA’s mission has revolved around a series of interventions designed around the idea of making agriculture a “business.” In this paper, I ask how AGRA puts such discourses into practice with a particular focus in Ghana. To do so, I draw on a television show produced by AGRA called jats:italicKuapa</jats:italic>, organizational literature, and to a lesser extent, interviews, to assess how AGRA materializes its goals in Ghana. Ultimately, I argue that a focus on discourse not only provides insight into how AGRA conceptualizes agricultural transformation, but also how AGRA pursues agronomic, political, and social changes in the countries in which it intervenes.</jats:p>

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New Green Revolution for Africa, Food Security, Development, Ghana, Critical discourse analysis

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Agriculture and Human Values

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0889-048X
1572-8366

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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the Wenner-Gren Foundation (Gr 9101), Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship Program, Explorers Club – DC, and American University

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