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Living in the shadow of the large dams: long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project
In: African social studies series 11
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20 - An Inspirational Figure
In: CODESRIA bulletin: Bulletin du CODESRIA en ligne, Heft 3-04
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Sam Moyo: A Life of Prodigious Scholarship, Institution Building and Strategic Activism
In: Development and change, Band 48, Heft 5, S. 1154-1167
ISSN: 1467-7660
ABSTRACTThe car accident that took Sam Moyo's life in Delhi on 22 November 2015 and injured his comrades Paris Yeros and Marcelo Rosa, cut short a scholar at the height of his powers. Working together with a group of like‐minded colleagues, Sam had finally built the foundations of a vibrant tri‐continental network that could hold his dreams: the Agrarian South Network. He was in Delhi at a conference on 'Labour Questions in the Global South', hosted by Praveen Jha, professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, one of his two closest intellectual partners — the other, of course, being Yeros. The conference, like earlier gatherings in Sao Paulo and Brasilia, was an opportunity to coordinate meetings of the Network and its journal, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. As it turned out, a meeting of the journal's editorial board was Sam's last activity before the accident.
Gender, Land Tenure and Agrarian Production Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
In: Agrarian south: journal of political economy, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 2321-0281
This article examines in historical perspective how gendered land tenure systems have contributed to shaping, and have in turn been shaped by, agrarian production and reproduction systems and how this has worked to the disadvantage of women in terms of their livelihood choices and outcomes and their position in agrarian societies. It is argued that contemporary challenges to the health of Africa's agrarian production systems have gender implications which are not sufficiently recognized, either in the literature or in policymaking. This stems from the fact that the complexities of women's positions and contributions to agrarian production and reproduction, since before the colonial period, are often not recognized and, therefore, their influence on long-term processes, such as capital accumulation and proletarianization of rural life, are not accounted for. The article provides a framing of the linkages between gendered land tenure and changing agrarian production and reproduction systems and examines two contemporary land tenure issues which illustrate the impacts of gender biases in land and agrarian policies.
Understanding and Addressing Inequalities in the Context of Structural Transformation in Africa: A Synthesis of Seven Country Studies
In: Development: journal of the Society for International Development (SID), Band 58, Heft 2-3, S. 206-229
ISSN: 1461-7072
Development Alternatives for a Post-Crisis World: An African perspective
In: Development: journal of the Society for International Development (SID), Band 55, Heft 4, S. 497-502
ISSN: 1461-7072
Employment Agencies and the Regulation of Domestic Workers in Ghana: Institutionalizing Informality?
In: Canadian journal of women and the law: Revue juridique "La femme et le droit", Band 23, Heft 1, S. 213-234
ISSN: 1911-0235
Les particuliers et les agents de placement informels contribuent depuis longtemps au marché du travail domestique au Ghana. Depuis les années 1990, les agences de placement officielles font également partie du paysage du travail. Dans le présent article, il est question des conditions de travail des travailleuses domestiques, du contexte dans lequel s'applique la politique d'emploi au Ghana et des méthodes utilisées pour l'approvisionnement de main-d'œuvre domestique. L'article traite surtout de la manière dont les agents et agences de placement contribuent à améliorer la situation des travailleuses domestiques. L'auteure soutient que l'entrée de ces agents dans le monde du recrutement de travailleuses domestiques a eu un effet limité sur le régime extrêmement informel et non réglementé de ce milieu, surtout parce qu'ils ne recrutent qu'une faible proportion de la main-d'œuvre domestique et parce que leur engagement se limite à fournir des travailleuses domestiques à des employeures potentielles, laissant aux parties concernées le soin de négocier les conditions de travail. En l'absence de dispositions particulières régissant le travail des domestiques et celui des agents et agences de placement, et sans le regroupement organisé des travailleuses domestiques, les agences de placement ne feraient qu'officialiser le caractère informel du travail domestique au Ghana. L'article présente aussi une évaluation de certaines initiatives visant à améliorer la réglementation du travail domestique et l'organisation de la main-d'œuvre domestique.
Women's Organizing in Ghana since the 1990s: From individual organizations to three coalitions
In: Development: journal of the Society for International Development (SID), Band 52, Heft 2, S. 185-192
ISSN: 1461-7072
The Volta River Project and Tongu Ewe migrant communities along the Volta Lake: A case of development\'s unintended consequences?
In: Research Review of the Institute of African Studies, Band 20, Heft 2
ISSN: 0855-4412
The Rights-based Approach to Development: Potential for Change or More of the Same?
In: IDS bulletin: transforming development knowledge, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 130-133
ISSN: 1759-5436
The Rights-Based Approach to Development: Potential for Change or More of the Same?
In: IDS bulletin, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 130-133
ISSN: 0265-5012, 0308-5872
17 - Statement on the passing on of Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, 1954-2017
In: CODESRIA bulletin: Bulletin du CODESRIA en ligne, Heft 3-04
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13 - CODESRIA Tribute to the Abuja Memorial in Honour of Professor Abubakar Momoh
In: CODESRIA bulletin: Bulletin du CODESRIA en ligne, Heft 3-04
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Researching empowerment: On methodological innovations, pitfalls and challenges
In: Women's studies international forum, Band 45, S. 81-89