17. JACQUELINE-ALYCE IGNATOVA
Information acquired: 2025
JACQUELINE-ALYCE IGNATOVA is an academic who published a paper in 2015 entitled Seeds of Contestation: Genetically Modified Crops and the Politics of Agricultural Modernization in. JACQUELINE-ALYCE IGNATOVA published this work as part of a team: Ignatova, Jacqueline Alyce. Here is a description of this work: Wha,, actors, expertise, and models of development are advanced by the ‘new Green Revolution in Africa'? This dissertation addresses this question through a blend of discourse analysis and ethnographic fieldwork during a period of agricultural transition in Northern Ghana. What struggles over authority, knowledge, identity, and property define this contemporary political economy of agricultural modernization in Ghana? I argue that legal, techno-scientific expertise and agribusiness work together to advance a model of agricultural development based on new forms of capital, governance structures, and technology. This model of agricultural development is mobilized and legitimated through discourses of emergency, salvation, entrepreneurship, and humanitarianism. In this new Green Revolution in Africa,.