BOOK
2022 “We are not starving: the Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana.” Michigan State University Press. [winner, 2024 Margaret Mead Award]
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2024 “The Future is Only the Beginning.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (with M. Montenegro de Wit, A. Kingiri, and M.A. Schnurr)
2024 “Socio-Economic Assessment and Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: Building Knowledge for Development?” Global Food Security (with B. Dowd-Uribe, G. Blundo-Canto, G. Glover, S. Louafi, H. Shilomboleni, E.M. Kikulwe, K. Fischer, and P-B Joly)
2023 “‘No one is talking about food’: Making Agriculture a ‘Business’ in Ghana.” Agriculture and Human Values.
2023 “Bridging the Gap?: Public-Private Partnerships and Genetically Modified Crop Development for Smallholder Farmers in Africa.” Plants, People, Planet: 1-15 (with B. Dowd-Uribe, T. Spreadbury, P. Chiril, and D. Uminsky)
2023 “The Knowledge Politics of Genome Editing in Africa.” Elementa (with M.A. Schnurr, A. Kingiri, D. Glover, G.D. Stone, A. Ely, and K. Fischer)
2023 “Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing.” Development and Change (with M.A. Schnurr, A. Kingiri, D. Glover, G.D. Stone, A. Ely, and K. Fischer)
2022 “Are Genetically Modified and Genome-Edited Crops Viable Strategies for Climate-Change Adaptation Among Smallholder Farmers?” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (with M.A. Schnurr, A. Kingiri, and S. Lieberman)
2020 “The Complex Choreography of Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa.” African Affairs 119(477): 499-525. (with R. Schurman)
2019 “We are not starving: Challenging Genetically Modified Seeds and Development in Ghana.” Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 41(1): 15-23. (Winner of the 2019 Boahen-Wilks Outstanding Scholarly Article in Ghana Studies Prize)
2018 “Complex Mediascapes, Complex Realities: Critically Engaging with Biotechnology Debates in Ghana.” Global Bioethics 29(1): 55-64.
SELECTED PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2024 “Will the Future of Food Be Gene Edited?” Africa is a Country (with A. Kingiri and M.A. Schnurr)
2023 “The Scientific Narrative Around New Food Technologies Needs to Change.” Nature Reviews Bioengineering (with K. Fischer)
2023 “Reading List.” Africa is a Country
2022 “Genetically Modified Cowpea Clears its First Hurdle in Ghana, but There’s a Long Way to Go.” The Conversation
2020 “GMOs for Africa?” Africa is a Country (with R. Schurman) [fr].
2019 “The Fight for the Future of Food.” Africa is a Country
2019 “This is What Donald Trump’s Development Policy Looks Like.” Africa is a Country (with J.M. Grumbach)
2018 “Don’t Turn Foreign Aid Over to the Heritage Foundation.” Foreign Policy in Focus (with J.M. Grumbach)
2018 “Only the Soil Can Free Us.” Africa is a Country
2018 “Catering Ghana’s Agricultural Development.” Anthropology News
2018 “Silent Aid.” Africa is a Country
2018 “Abject Lessons.” Popula
2018 “The Economic Fighters League is Re-Igniting Ghana’s Anti-Colonial Legacy.” Africa is a Country
2018 “Pythons and Lily Pads.” Africa is a Country
2014 “A Field Day for Joeva Rock.” American University College of Arts and Sciences
2014 “Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis?” The Nation
2014 “Militarized Humanitarianism in Africa.” Foreign Policy in Focus
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